Tag Archives: ‘Marxism’

IS IT: MAN & NATURE or NATURE & MAN?

In the relative position the reader sequences these two simple dualistic patriarchal triads lies the difference between humanity continuing with ruling class ideologies and eventual social collapse or adopting a Gaia-centric future for life on earth and ensuring a positive … 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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THE DECLINE & FALL OF EMPIRES.

It is fairly common knowledge that there have been a number of significant Empires in the past history of the human species. The term ’empire’ is used retrospectively to refer to an amalgamation of hierarchical mass societies, whose ruling elites … Continue reading

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THE WORKING CLASS & REVOLUTION.

In a previous article entitled (Gaps between Ideas and Reality’) I made the case for recognising that the anthropocentric view of workers revolution that most of the 20th century and current 21st century anticapitalist left are following is a purely  … Continue reading

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GAPS BETWEEN IDEAS & REALITY.

In the disciplines of science and technology, a reconciliation of any gap between theory and practice (or differences between ideas and reality) is resolved by controlled experiments, unprejudiced observation of them and repeated confirmation of any results, whether positive or … Continue reading

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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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A LEFT ECO-SOCIALIST MANIFESTO.

This April I came across an article announcing a manifesto also arguing for an eco-socialist revolution, written by individuals from an organisation called the Fourth International. Its opening paragraph stated the following; “This Manifesto is a document of the Fourth … 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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21st CENTURY ANTHROPOCENTRIC CONCERNS (Part 2)

Indications of the lack of serious Climate and Ecological concerns from various publicised Anticapitalist perspectives. A) “Today the fate of the earth as a home for humanity is in question” (This appeared in a radical left blog) The fate of … Continue reading

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NARCISSISM, SECTARIANISM & POLITICS

In previous articles on anthropocentrism I have detailed how much human-centric thinking distorts the reality of the wider ecological and biological reality of life on earth, but in addition also distorts the social reality of life within hierarchical mass societies. … Continue reading

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