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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 (Part 2)

In a previous article on this blog site entitled MORE LEFT ANTHROPOCENTRIC CONFUSION, I pointed out how the left in general and the Anticapitalist left in particular, remain trapped in the dominant anthropocentric paradigm established during the long history of … 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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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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ELITE INSTIGATED WARS & CIVIL WARS. (Part 2)

I hope this part 2 will be useful for those readers who are not familiar with the dark side of the history of hierarchical mass societies, because only those who have not understood that long history, can conclude that this … Continue reading

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A NEW WORLD ORDER?

Many commentators are currently speculating that the proliferation of outstanding events unfolding in the 21st century are a result of the dying pains of the American dominated century and the growing pains of an emerging Asian dominated century. It has … Continue reading

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ADAM SMITH & ECONOMIC ANTHROPOCENTRISM.

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

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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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COMMENTS UPON A SOCIAL ECOLOGY CONFERENCE.

I recently had my attention drawn to a conference held during 2024 and organised by the ‘Transnational Institute of Social Ecology’ and was held in the city of Athens Greece. The conference theme was to build a Social Ecology based … Continue reading

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