Tag Archives: ‘Marxism’

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

Posted on February 28, 2026 by stutteringsteps

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 4)

Posted on February 20, 2026 by stutteringsteps

In part 1, 2 and 3 of this analysis of Marx, Engels and others (e.g. Epicurus) on life on earth, I mentioned a number of attempts by some Marxists to make Marx more relevant to the problems facing humanity in … Continue reading →

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

Posted on February 12, 2026 by stutteringsteps

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 & MARXISTS on ‘Life on Earth’ (Part 2)

Posted on February 6, 2026 by stutteringsteps

In part 1 of this survey of Marx and the ‘Marxists, I identified the fact that there had been a tendency amongst some ‘Marxists’ in order to try to resurrect Marx’s stature and their own, by looking back to the … Continue reading →

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MARX & MARXISTS on ‘Life on Earth’. (Part 1)

Posted on January 31, 2026 by stutteringsteps

Although I admire Marx for his rigorous and accurate analysis of the capitalist mode of production (in Das Kapital, Grundrisse, etc.), his scathing assessment of bourgeous and petite-bourgeois politics (in The Paris Commune, Surveys from Exile etc.) and his humanist … Continue reading →

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ARTIFICIAL VERSUS HUMAN INTELLIGENCE.(1)

Posted on January 16, 2026 by stutteringsteps

(PART 1.) I suggest that currently there are only three types of intelligence; the Good, the Bad and the Ugly. (Thanks to whichever Spagetti Western writer formulated that film title) The Good is Socio-biological Aware Human Intelligence (SBAHI); the Bad … Continue reading →

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IS IT: MAN & NATURE or NATURE & MAN?

Posted on September 3, 2025 by stutteringsteps

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.

Posted on August 10, 2025 by stutteringsteps

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.

Posted on June 28, 2025 by stutteringsteps

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.

Posted on June 9, 2025 by stutteringsteps

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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