Socialist Planning Beyond Capitalism
self-organizing social systems out of the capitalist crisis
Orientation Situating my article Often the rise of China and the Middle East appears to many Westerners as something recent, maybe 30 years old. Before that? Is Western dominance beginning …
Ungrateful Lying Upstarts: The Western Denial Of The Eastern Origins of Their Civilization Read More
Orientation What is politics? Nine Questions for Determining What is Politics In Part I of my article Seven Theories of Politics I posed ten questions for narrowing down what the …
Cross-Cultural Comparative Politics: Social Science or Cold War Propaganda? Read More
International Relations (IR) theory fails to deliver on one of its key promises, specifically to produce positivist, value free analysis. What we encounter in the vast majority of international theory …
The Myopia of Anglo-American Rulers: How They Can’t Face Their Loss to the “Eurasian Miracle” Read More
Field of Dreams When I was about seven years old I used to play a “let’s pretend” baseball game in our backyard. I laid out 4 rags I’d gotten from …
Choose-Up Games from the Sandlots of Jamaica, Queens NY Read More
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 …
The Collective Creativity of Workers: From Unconscious Sleeping Giant to Builder of Barricades Part II Read More
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 …
The Collective Creativity of Workers Read More
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 …
Absolutist, Relativist and Cynical Thinking Styles: How Yankees are Blockheads Read More
Orientation How much do left brain pathologies have to do with culture and geography? Recently I was interviewed by Jeff J. Brown on China Rising about an article I wrote titled …
Holistic vs Analytical Thinking Read More
Orientation Leninist and anarchist shortcomings in relation to rhetoric A little over three years ago I wrote an article about how bad Mordor Leninists and anarchists are about knowing about, …
Recapturing White Rhetoric For Socialist Agitating Read More
Orientation Power struggles between the two sides of the brain In Part I of this article, I compared the left to the right side of the brain across many categories. …
The Dark Side of Left-Brain Operations: Part II Read More