Tag Archives: Marx

IS GOING BEYOND CAPITAL ENOUGH?

Posted on July 31, 2025 by stutteringsteps
Posted in Critique | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

ADAM SMITH & ECONOMIC ANTHROPOCENTRISM.

Posted on February 2, 2025 by stutteringsteps

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 →

Posted in Critique | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

GLOBAL PRODUCTION & DESTRUCTION. (Part 3)

Posted on July 11, 2024 by stutteringsteps

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 →

Posted in Critique | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

GLOBAL PRODUCTION & DESTRUCTION (Part 2)

Posted on July 4, 2024 by stutteringsteps

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 →

Posted in Critique | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

ONE STEP FORWARD; THREE STEPS BACK?

Posted on May 14, 2024 by stutteringsteps

In the current context of global economic, financial, social and military dystopia it is not surprising that every few months there are some groups in the world trying to make sense of what is happening to the planet it’s people … Continue reading →

Posted in Critique | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

MARX & LIFE ON EARTH. (Part 1.)

Posted on March 29, 2024 by stutteringsteps

The continuing multiple crises of the capitalist mode of production continues to produce ideas about how to solve them by one means or another. Many of the means advocated are those which envisage a stage of human social evolution which … Continue reading →

Posted in Critique | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR KARL!

Posted on May 13, 2018 by stutteringsteps

This month, two hundred years ago, (actually on 5 May 1818), Karl Marx was born. And as is usual on any date connected with Marx, a spate of articles by so-called ‘experts’ appeared in periodicals and papers assessing Marx’s contribution … Continue reading →

Posted in Anti-Capitalism, capitalism, Critique, Ecological damage., Economics, Finance, Marx, Politics, Sectarianism | Tagged , , , | 6 Comments

SECTARIANISM IN THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR – 2.

Posted on February 3, 2016 by stutteringsteps

Revolutionary illusions and delusions. Despite the fact that many participants in the Spanish Civil War were convinced  they were engaged in an anti-capitalist revolution, the reality as it unfolded in the 1930’s, demonstrated something different. Events proved in 1930’s Spain … Continue reading →

Posted in Anti-Capitalism, capitalism, Critique, Marx, neo-liberalism, Politics, Reformism, Sectarianism | Tagged , , , , | 2 Comments

THE STATE OR REVOLUTION. (Introduction)

Posted on August 5, 2013 by stutteringsteps

The State and Revolution, (Lenin’s pamphlet – a polemic against Kautsky, Plekhanov and the Anarchists) was an apt title in the light of his view of the relationship between a revolution and the nature of a post-capitalist society. He and … Continue reading →

Posted in Critique, Marx, Politics | Tagged , , | 1 Comment

LEADERS OR FACILITATORS?

Posted on March 15, 2013 by stutteringsteps

The concept of a leadership ‘vanguard’ runs through a section of the anti-capitalist left like a solid strand of DNA. This concept keeps replicating itself across generations and despite trying to evolve to fit into the changed environment it now … Continue reading →

Posted in Critique, Marx, Politics | Tagged , , , , , | 13 Comments