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Hierarchical Mass Societies: The Final Countdown? (Part 3)

In the two previous parts of this article on the estrangement, alienation and dehumanisation of the human species, which has been experienced under all the previous forms of hierarchical mass societies, we ended with noting the importance of Marx. In … Continue reading

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MARX & MARXISTS on Life on Earth. (Part 5)

This is the final part of a long article, tracing some of the developments of the trend of political thinking originated by Karl Marx and its contradictory continuation by his followers – the ‘Marxists! As we saw in Part 4, … Continue reading

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MARX & MARXISTS on ‘Life on Earth’. (Part 3)

Marx and Engels on human production. As I indicated in Part 2 of this extended article, in fact I am confident that by Karl Marx studying Epicurus this ancient elite character could not have helped him to anticipate or understand … Continue reading

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MARX AND LIFE BEYOND CAPITAL.

Early on in his 19th century radical researches, Karl Marx, published an article in the form of a letter to his fellow editor Arnold Ruge, and after commenting that in his homeland Germany, ‘stupidity itself rules supreme’, he went on … Continue reading

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IS GOING BEYOND CAPITAL ENOUGH?

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MORE LEFT ANTHROPOCENTRIC CONFUSION.

Every time the problems of life on earth are addressed from within an Anthropocentric biased form of ideology, the solutions proposed are almost certain to be way off the mark, full of needless abstractions and therefore categorically wrong. A recent … Continue reading

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BACK TO THE FUTURE – AGAIN?

There has been a trend in recent years in which some of the inheritors of what has been widely called the Marxist tradition, have become less enamoured by the great men of this particular line of anti-capitalist revolutionary thinking. This … Continue reading

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ADAM SMITH & ECONOMIC ANTHROPOCENTRISM.

Perhaps the clearest expression of anthropocentric type thinking appears within the discipline of economics. Like mathematics, everything purely outside of a human-centred viewpoint is either represented abstractly or totally ignored within such fields of study. Whilst mathematics in its anthropocentric … Continue reading

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GLOBAL PRODUCTION & DESTRUCTION. (Part 3)

In the final part of this series, I suggest it is important to fully recognise that a significant part of the destruction taking place under the auspices of the now almost universal hierarchical mass society systems is in the realm … Continue reading

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GLOBAL PRODUCTION & DESTRUCTION (Part 2)

In part one of this series further evidence was produced to demonstrate that hierarchical mass societies prior to the ones dominated by the capitalist mode of production, were also dominated by the characteristics of increasing levels of production and destruction. … Continue reading

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