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  • The Deep Biosocial Roots of Egalitarian Politics

    The Deep Biosocial Roots of Egalitarian Politics

    Orientation: Anthropological confirmation of primitive communism When Marx and Engels proclaimed that the first human societies practiced ”primitive communism” they hardly had much company. In the first half of the 20th century two exceptions were the archeologist V. Gordon Childe and later on the anthropologist Leslie White. It was only in the 1960s and 1970s […]

  • The Dark Triad Can’t Kill Karl

    “The most violent, mean, and malignant passions of the human breast…” are the emotions that protectors and defenders of capitalism focus on those who seek to end the profit system and replace it with a more egalitarian system. This is what Karl Marx wrote in his introduction to the first edition of Capital in 1867. […]

  • The Collective Creativity of Workers, Part II

    The Collective Creativity of Workers, Part II

    Orientation Summing up Part I My purpose in this two-part article is to show how creativity can be understood not only at the micro level of the individual artist, but also at the macro level of world history. I began in Part I by describing the ways in which the individual artist is different from […]

  • The Collective Creativity of Workers

    The Collective Creativity of Workers

    Orientation One purpose of this article is to get you to think of creativity in a whole new way. Our notion of creative today is baked with the assumptions of a Romantic theory of art. These have their good points but they also limit us. In this article I want to argue that the most […]

  • Absolutist, Relativist and Cynical Thinking Styles

    Absolutist, Relativist and Cynical Thinking Styles

    Orientation The mismatch between the complexity of the world and the simplistic manner in which we think about it The social, economic and political world in which we live is extremely complex, but  most of the Yankee population does not have the thinking skills that can make intelligent decisions about this world and what to […]

  • From Agrarianism to Transhumanism: The Long March to Dystopia

    A total demolition of the previous forms of existence is underway: how one comes into the world, biological sex, education, relationships, the family, even the diet that is about to become synthetic. — Silvia Guerini, radical ecologist, in From the ‘Neutral’ Body to the Posthuman Cyborg: A Critique of Gender Ideology (2023) We are currently […]

  • 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                                                                                      […]

  • 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 […]

  • Peace Requires Freedom and Justice

    The mass slaughter of Palestinian civilians by Israel has shaken people throughout the world. It is a brutal, unfathomable expression of hate and violence; systemic genocide, long in the planning, that can only be described as an act of evil. Whilst the Israeli government and their henchmen are the principle perpetrators, they have been supported […]

  • Why Do We Love Consumerism?

    De-linking from the dominant ideological themes of capitalist society is a difficult task. The globalization of capital under the regime of neoliberal deregulation has allowed consumerism to establish a pervasive presence throughout the world. Even if we get to know harrowing information about the inequalities and injustices of the reining consumption model, we don’t enact […]

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