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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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ANOTHER DICTATOR FALLS

Yet another savage dictator has been overthrown, this time in Syria! However, the authoritarian dictatorships of hierarchical mass societies in general will continue as they have since ancient times. The fundamental socio-economic contradiction between ruling classes, their elites, and their … Continue reading

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CONGRATULATIONS! THE SYSTEM HAS WON!

Metaphorically speaking, with only two specially groomed political horses in what amounted to a two horse race, how could the US systems syndicates that have bought and fed both horses, NOT win? What is true of the US political system … 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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UK.WINTER FUEL PAYMENTS!

Amid the growing furore in the UK over the cancellation of the winter fuel allowances for pensioners, by the New Labour government, something is missing. No one seems have honed in on two very obvious questions regarding this withdrawal of … 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 1)

In the globalised system of hierarchical mass societies the combined global input of raw materials and the combined global output of production and waste materials – issuing from all countries – are staggering in their volume and frequency. The results … Continue reading

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SENSE & NONSENSE ABOUT REGIME CHANGE

Discussions on Regime Change have ebbed and flowed over the decades, even though the phenomenon has not always been described in this way. It is now used by pro-capitalist elites to describe getting rid of an elite in charge of … Continue reading

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THE GENESIS OF GENOCIDE (Part 2).

In part 1 of this article, the internal socio-economic form of hierarchical mass societies based upon agriculture, were shown to comprise of a top-down authoritarian class structure. The external relationships with the rest of life on earth (nature) are such … Continue reading

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