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  • Neocon Realists and Global Neoliberals Dead on Arrival

    Neocon Realists and Global Neoliberals Dead on Arrival

    Orientation Who are Neocons and Neoliberals today? In the collapsing Mordor society of today we have two contending foreign policy theoretical tendencies, the Neocon realists and the Neoliberal globalists. The Neocon realists are represented by people like Robert Kagan, Victoria Nuland, Steve Bannon and other war hawks who go back to the Bush Years (Rumsfeld, […]

  • Herbert Marcuse: New Left Revival?

    World events serve as a stage of constant search for how best to construct and maintain society, which is an underlying theme of some decades ago found in the works of Herbert Marcuse, 1898–1979, German-American philosopher of prominent fame during the 1960s considered an intellectual giant of his time. Charles Reitz, widely recognized as a […]

  • Jean Houston’s Psycho-Historical Recovery of the Self

    Jean Houston’s Psycho-Historical Recovery of the Self

    Orientation   How I came across Life Force: The Psycho-Historical Recovery of the Self                                                                                      […]

  • Is There an Answer to Inflation?

    Is There an Answer to Inflation?

    Inflation is a scourge on those cursed with living under the capitalist order. It especially punishes those least able to weather the pain of constantly falling behind rising prices and expanding debt. Inflation harms nearly all working people whose income growth trails the rise in prices, including those with union contracts that bridge periods of […]

  • Private Profits vs. Social Prophets

    …What we see at work is not an expression of the sentiments of the American people; rather it reflects the will of a powerful minority which uses its economic power to control the organs of political life. — Albert Einstein, Einstein on Peace, p. 343. We entered the massive marketplace labeled “our democracy” as always […]

  • Unbecoming American: At Election Time

    2024 is a year full of elections. For what they are worth they also present a display of the wealth and poverty of language with which active and passive electorates are confined, at least to the extent there is any serious effort to relate the utterances incidental to the process with the lived reality such […]

  • Peoples’ China: What Lies Ahead?

    Whither China? was the name of a widely circulated pamphlet authored by the respected Anglo-Indian Marxist author, R. Palme Dutt. Writing in 1966, with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in the throes of the “Cultural Revolution,” the pamphlet sought to shed light on the PRC’s tortured road from liberation in 1949 to a vast […]

  • The Battle for Income Equality

    Questioning the statistics in Thomas Piketty’s best-selling book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, with intent to undermine his thesis, is futile. Even if Piketty’s alert that returns on investment have exceeded the real growth of wages and economic output, which means that the stock of capital is rising faster than overall economic output, is not […]

  • The Clinton-Soros “House Hands”

    Another recent article expressing election year hysteria among the credentialed class began with the assertion: While it is very easy, based on documents, to declare Mr. Trump to be a neo-fascist and/ or a criminal, historical events indicate that the Democratic Party failed over the last five decades to protect and support, and then expand […]

  • Is There a Future for the Left?

    …the Left narrative, no matter how accurate and intellectually powerful it may be, cannot expect to catch the imagination of the citizenry without including a vision for a real alternative future. Moreover, working-class institutions need to be reinstituted for the enhancement of class consciousness and authentic socialist parties need to be rediscovered for the Left […]

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