Socialist Planning Beyond Capitalism
self-organizing social systems out of the capitalist crisis
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 and Global Neoliberals Dead on Arrival: A Theoretical Autopsy Read More
Orientation How I came across Life Force: The Psycho-Historical Recovery of the Self. In the middle of the 1980s I had decided to return to college to get a …
Jean Houston’s Psycho-Historical Recovery of the Self Read More
Summary of Part I After briefly reviewing the theories of the relationship between religion and nationalism, I find the theories of Anthony Smith, George Mosse and Adrian Hutchinson the most …
Monotheistic Roots of Nationalism Part II Read More
What Is The Relationship Between Nationalism and Religion? Do religion and nationalism compete with each other? Do they replace each other? Do they amplify each other and drive each other forward? Do …
The Monotheistic Roots of Nationalism Part I Read More
Orientation The emergence of a strange, secular god “I am the Lord Thy God, Thou Shalt not have strange gods before me” is not just a religious commandment. Every nation-state …
Nationalism as the Religion of the Modern West Read More
Orientation Who cares about philosophy? When most people hear about philosophy, they think it is: Hopelessly abstract The opposite of concreate reality The opposite of application For talking heads who are …
Out on a Limb With Dialectical Materialism Read More
Orientation Questions about fame and celebrity What does it mean to be famous? Does being famous go all the way back to hunter-gatherers or does it have an origin later …
Fame vs Celebrity: Movies, Music, Sports and Politics Read More
Summary of Part I In Part I of my article, I described how initially the field of social psychology had deep roots in the socio-cultural traditions of Wundt, Royce, Baldwin, …
Yankee Micro Social Psychology Part II Read More
Orientation Developing a Marxist social psychology is a very important aspect of explaining what is going on within the individual in relation to society as well as what is going …
Yankee Micro Social Psychology Part I Read More
Orientation: Why study crowds, masses and movements? It is tempting to imagine that as socialists we must know a great deal about crowds, masses and in medieval thought individual meant …
Crowds, Masses and Movements: Right Wing and Left Wing Macro Social Psychology Read More