Tag Archives: ‘Marxism’

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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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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ONE STEP FORWARD; THREE STEPS BACK?

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

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RESISTANCE & REVOLUTION. (Part 2)

Resistance & Revolution in the 21st Century. The human centred bourgeois ideological constructions, noted in (Part 1), have for generations been intellectually integrated into a set of largely unchallenged assumptions based upon the social domination of the ancient hierarchical mass … Continue reading

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