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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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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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ANTHROPOCENTRISM AND CRISIS (2)

For successive generations of thinkers about ‘life on earth’, the dominant intellectual paradigm has been made up of human created, self-absorbed abstractions. The most dominant – all encompassing – abstraction contains, as an absolute certainty the domination of the human … Continue reading

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VICTIMISING THE VICTIMS.

A) Competitive victimhood. An awareness of the extent and depth of hierarchical mass society forms of oppression and exploitation of all organic life forms has grown considerably over the 20th century. However, this awareness is fragmented into separate categories of … 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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