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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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HIERARCHICAL MASS SOCIETIES: The Final Countdown?(Part 2)

Before going further in this series, it is important to recognise that once the social practices and purposes of hierarchical mass society structures are accepted by its elite members as valid, then certain logical outcomes follow. It does not matter … Continue reading

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HIERARCHICAL MASS SOCIETIES: The Final Countdown? (Part 1)

I suggest it is not too much of an exaggeration to claim that the 20th Century witnessed a series of cataclysmic socio-economic events that culminated in two huge paroxysms of the hierarchical mass society system of human aggregation. These huge … 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 4)

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)

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)

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)

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)

(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?

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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