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• Collectivist, Individualist and Communist Selves Part II (by Bruce Lerro)
• Collectivist, Individualist and Communist Selves, Part I (by Bruce Lerro)
• The Science of Superstition Part II (by Bruce Lerro)
• The Science of Superstition (by Bruce Lerro)
• Heroic Skeptical Odysseys Into Parapsychology Part II (by Bruce Lerro)
• Heroic Skeptical Odysseys Into Parapsychology (by Bruce Lerro)
• Why Neopagan Marxists are Not Pantheists or Animists (by Bruce Lerro)
• The Cycles and Spirals of Capitalism (by Bruce Lerro)
• The Haphazard Conflicted Brain: The Bioevolutionary Basis of Contradictory Reasoning (by Bruce Lerro)
• Promethean City Builders vs Finance Capital Malthusians: Multipolarists vs Anglo-American Empire Part II (by Bruce Lerro)
• Promethean City Builders vs Finance Capital Malthusians: Multipolarists vs the Anglo-American Empire (by Bruce Lerro)
• Edgar Morin and the Magical Origins of Stardom: Participation Mystique and Projective Identification (by Bruce Lerro)
• The Magickal Enchantment of Materialism: Why Marxists Need Neopaganism (by Bruce Lerro)
• Why Marxists Need Darwin: Evolutionary Mismatches Challenge the Darwinian Unconscious (by Bruce Lerro)
• The Four Types of Play of Roger Caillois: From Competition to Chance, from Mimicry to Vertigo (by Bruce Lerro)
• The Causes Of Dogmatism: Sociological, Psychological, Bioevolutionary and Physiological Foundations (by Bruce Lerro)
• The Dogmatic Personality: Cognitive, Emotional and Behavioral Dimensions (by Bruce Lerro)
• The Thirteen Commandments of Propaganda: Its Construction, Dissemination, and Internalization (by Bruce Lerro)
• Speaking With Forked Tongues: Crafting Linguistic Propaganda by Boiling, Freezing and Muddying Language (by Bruce Lerro)
• The Slavophile Russian Cosmists: Reds, Scientists and Mystics (by Bruce Lerro)

• High Pagan Radicalism: Process Philosophy, Conflicted Multiplicity and Mythological Rebellion (by Bruce Lerro)
• Multiple Economic Fractures in Mordor: David Harvey and the Contradictions of Capitalism (by Bruce Lerro)
• From Pagan Animism to Alienation: How Monotheism and Capitalism Create Disenchantment (by Bruce Lerro)
• Are Socialists Going to Let Neoliberals Define Fascism? Why the Linear Political Spectrum is Bankrupt (by Bruce Lerro)
• Weaving the Dialectical Spiral into Individual Development: From Robert Kegan to Lev Vygotsky (by Bruce Lerro)
• Towards a Communist Theory of the Emotions: Why Your Emotions Are Not Your Private Property (by Bruce Lerro)
• What is Sociohistorical Neopaganism or Neopagan Marxism? Gods, Goddesses and Radicals (by Bruce Lerro)
• The Spectrum of Fundamentalism (by Bruce Lerro)
• In the Crevasses Between Submission and Revolution Part II: Public and Hidden Transcripts of Resistance in Caste, Slave and Feudal Societies (by Bruce Lerro)
• In the Crevices Between Submission and Revolution: Disguised and Public Resistance in Caste, Slave, and Feudal Societies Part I (by Bruce Lerro)
• Aryan Right-Wing Mythology for the New Age: Carl Jung, Mircea Eliade and Joseph Campbell (by Bruce Lerro)
• The Social Anatomy and Dynamics of Power: Bases, Depth, Scope, and Dimensions (by Bruce Lerro)
• Letters from Moscow: Education, Health Care, Unions, and Political Parties Across the Class Divide (by HCE)
• Letters From Moscow Across the Class Divide: Impact of Sanctions, Homelessness, and Sports Fanaticism (by HCE)
• How Different Classes in Russia Feel About Yankeedom, China and Europe: More Letters from Russia (by HCE)
• Tectonic Shifts in the World Economy: A World Systems Perspective (by Bruce Lerro)
• Polytheism vs Monotheism: Building Bridges Between Polytheism and Atheism (by Bruce Lerro)
• Economic Tectonic Shifts: Letters from Russia (by HCE)
• Bringing our Socialist Baby to Life: History of Socialist Planning Beyond Capitalism (by Bruce and Barbara MacLean-Lerro)
• What Happens After the Russia-Ukraine Conflict? (by Gary Olson)
• The Mythology, Ritual, and Art of Romantic Socialism: Socialism’s Lost Heart and Soul (by Bruce Lerro)
• Renaissance Woman Sylvia Pankhurst: Feminist, Artist, Council Communist, Anti-Imperialist (by Bruce and Barbara MacLean-Lerro)
• Through the Looking Glass with Maoist Characteristics (by Ron Leighton)
• Why Study History? Why it Matters to the Yankee Population Who Don’t Bother to Vote (by Bruce Lerro)
• Building Bridges from Pierre Janet to Lev Vygotsky: Transitions to Communist Psychology (by Bruce Lerro)

• The Joys and Sorrows of Being a Celebrity Fan: James Dean, Jerry Lee Lewis and Mickey Mantle (by Bruce Lerro)
• The House of Cards of Clinical Psychology: How Psychoanalysis and Humanistic Psychology Ignore Scientific Research and How the Public Pays For It (by Bruce Lerro)
• New Agers vs Neopagans: Can Either be Salvaged for Socialism? Part II (by Bruce Lerro)
• New Agers vs Neo-Pagans: Can Either Be Salvaged for Socialism? Part I (by Bruce Lerro)
• My Love Affair with Rhythm and Blues: From Solomon Burke to Sam and Dave to Laura Lee (by Bruce Lerro)
• Three Strikes You’re Out for Western Psychotherapy: The Dark History and its Shortcomings With Collectivists (by Bruce Lerro)
• Seven Theories of Politics: The Rehabilitation of a Loaded Vice Word Part II (by Bruce Lerro)
• Seven Theories of Politics: The Rehabilitation of a Loaded Vice Word Part I (by Bruce Lerro)
• Does New Age Mysticism REALLY Explain Quantum Physics? Communist Theory of Mind Says No (by Bruce Lerro)
• The Bible vs the Eagle: Why Christian Nationalism is un-American (by Bruce Lerro)
• Not So Fast: Why the Enlightenment is Still a Foundation for Working-Class Liberation (by Bruce Lerro)
• Divided We Stand: Eleven Regional Rivalries from Mountain People to the Swamps of Dixie (by Bruce Lerro)
• I Am the Lord Thy God, Thou Shalt Not Have Strange Gods Before Me: The Monotheistic Roots of Nationalism (by Bruce Lerro)
• Ruling Class Fears of The Day of Reckoning: Historical Causes for the Biases Against Crowds (by Bruce Lerro)
• Left-Wing Psychotherapy Cults: Sullivanians from Hedonism to Group Terror (by Bruce Lerro)
• Ghosts of Highway 20 Revisited: How Being a Self-Educated Street Intellectual May Have Saved My Life (by Bruce Lerro)
• Socialist Rhetorical and Dialectical Communication: Overcoming Brainwashing, Propaganda and Entertainment (by Bruce Lerro)
• Jacques Ellul: Controversies in the Rise of Propaganda (by Bruce Lerro)
• Why Middle-Class Left Liberals Should Dump the Democratic Party: Finding Common Ground with Socialists (by Bruce Lerro)
• Anti-Communist Political Science: Propaganda for the Yankee Capitalist State (by Bruce Lerro)
• Charlie Hebdo and His Neighbours (by David Gamble)
• There Never Was a Free Market (by Abe Abdelhadi)
• The Power of Magick: Why Materialists, Atheists and Marxists Need it (by Bruce Lerro)
• Spirals of Becoming: The Search for a Dialectical Spiral in the Individual Life Cycle (by Bruce Lerro)

• Name Me One Country Where Capitalism Works: A Thirty-Year Reckoning (by Bruce Lerro)
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers: How Political Science and Neoclassical Economics Zombifies the Yankee Population (by Bruce Lerro)
• White Supremacy Sanctions Internal and External Colonialism (by David Gamble)
• “Dictatorship” and “Democracy” as Loaded Language: Anti-Communist Cold-War Propaganda (by Bruce Lerro)
• “TOTALITARIAN” ANTI-COMMUNISM: Loaded Language Straight Out of CIA, Neo-Con Playbook (by Bruce Lerro)
• Like a Rowboat in a Typhoon: Why 2020 Center-Right Yankee Election Outcomes are Dead in the Water (by Bruce Lerro)
• Political and Spiritual Cults: From Rapture to Complicity to Aftermath in the Shadow of 20th Century Yankeedom (by Bruce Lerro)
• My Journey to Socialism: From 9-11 through the Great Recession (by Barbara MacLean)
• The Political Economy of Preternatural Parapsychology: From ESP to Extraterrestrial Civilizations (by Bruce Lerro)
• Revolutionary Group Dynamics: How Minorities Influence Majorities, from Group Complicity to Collective Creativity (by Bruce Lerro)
• Neoliberal Psychological Romanticism: From the Primal Scream to the Collective Unconscious Part II (by Bruce Lerro)
• Neoliberal Psychological Realism: from Barbie Dolls to Hook-up Sex (by Bruce Lerro)
• Left Gatekeepers Through the New Left: Monitored Rebellion Part II (by Bruce Lerro)
• Left Gatekeepers Through the New Left: Monitored Rebellion – Part I (by Bruce Lerro)
• A Seafarer’s Ordeal and Triumph Over Maritime Capitalists (by Jomar Tomas)
• What is Socialist Psychology: Child Development, History Shaping, Therapy and Revolutionary Situations: Part II (by Bruce Lerro)
• What is Socialist Psychology? Lev Vygotsky, Activity Theory and Socio-historical Psychology (by Bruce Lerro)

• Why Revolutionaries Should be Atheists (by Bruce Lerro)
• Why is the Ruling Class Putting up with the Idiot-King? (by Bruce Lerro)
• Sitting Pretty on a Sinking Ship: Neoliberal Feminism (by Barbara MacLean)
• My Love Affair With Books: Self-Education From Greaseball to Street Intellectual – Part II 1989- 2017 (by Bruce Lerro)
• My Love Affair With Books: Self-Education From Greaseball to Street Intellectual Part I – 1968 to 1989 (by Bruce Lerro)

• Re-enchanting Socialism: How Not To Throw The Baby Out With The Bathwater (by Bruce Lerro)
• Facing the Music: Religion, Nationalism and Sports Have Enchanted the Working Class; Socialism Hasn’t (by Bruce Lerro)
• Is Shocking People Revolutionary? 100 Years of Romanticism and Capitalism is Getting Worse (by Bruce Lerro)
• Natasha and Boris Badenov: Why Russians Are Upset with Americans as Seen Through The Eyes of an Iraqi (Part II) (by Jamal Al-Tahir)
• Big Brother Facebook: Drawing Down The Iron Curtain on Yankeedom (by Bruce Lerro)
• Natasha and Boris Badenov: Why Russians Are Upset With Americans – Seen Through The Eyes Of An Iraqi (Part 1) (by Jamal Al-Tahir)
• Greater of Two Evils (by Bruce Lerro)
• What is Wrong with the US Left? A Perspective From Iraq (by Jamal Al-Tahir)

• Socialist Planning Circles: Building Scaffolds Before the Wreckage (by Bruce Lerro)
• Harvey Weinstein is Only the Tip of the Iceberg: What Could Be Done (by Barbara MacLean)
• Harvey Weinstein is Only the Tip of the Iceberg: What Could Be Done? (by Barbara MacLean)
• Are You Willing to Walk a Mile in My Shoes? – The Impact of US Imperialism On An Ordinary Iraqi (by Jamal Al-Tahir)
• Do You Socialists Have Any Plans? Why We Need Socialist Architects (by Bruce Lerro)
• A Historical Alternative to Pink Pussy Cat Hats: Alexandra Kollontai as a model for socialist feminism (by Barbara MacLean)
• Capitalist Economic Violence Against Road Scholars: Now You’re Hired, Now You’re Not (by Bruce Lerro)
• 21st Century Socialism Needs To Scale Our Evolutionary Heights and the Depths (by Bruce Lerro)
• Forging Promethean Psychology: Emotional, Sensual, and Imaginational Foundations of Western Psychology (by Bruce Lerro)
• Intergenerational Socialist Solidarity: Face-to-Face vs. Facebook (by Bruce Lerro)
• No Pink Wooly Caps for Me (by Barbara MacLean)

• “Anti-Trump” New Left Continues Crypto-Identity Politics (by Bruce Lerro)
• Capitalist Hospitals in the Empire: My Six-Day Nightmare At Kaiser (by Barbara MacLean)
• Perils and Promise of Political Labels: Let’s Stop Taking Pitches and Start Swinging Away (by Bruce Lerro)
• How Sports Fanaticism Requires Social Schizophrenia (by Bruce Lerro)
• Banishing Hillary Harpies: Eleven Reasons to Send Them Screeching Back to Crete (by Bruce Lerro)
• Being Inconvenienced While Minding My Own Business: The Poverty of Liberal, Social Contract Theory of Violence (by Bruce Lerro)
• Assembly Line Counseling at the University: Capitalism’s Bizantine Influence in Higher Education (by Barbara MacLean)
• Open Letter to the “Sandernistas” – Bernie Caves Again 2020 (by Bruce Lerro)
• “Network” 40 Years Later: Capitalism in Retrospect and Prospect and Elite Politics Today (by Bruce Lerro)
• Feminism is Bigger Than Gender: Why I’ll be Happy in Hell Without Hillary (by Barbara MacLean)
• Lost at Sea: Left-Liberals Have No Party (by Bruce Lerro)
• The Propaganda Model at Work in the 2016 Presidential Election by Seth Young (by Bruce Lerro)
• College Teaching on the Periphery: The Perils and Promise of Working as an Adjunct (by Bruce Lerro)
• What Kind of Left Are We? (by Bruce Lerro)
• Yo – Other Countries – Invade Us, Please? (by Barbara MacLean)
• You Say You Want a (Political) Revolution? (by Bruce Lerro)
• Beyond Sanders – Opportunity to Expand a Movement (by Barbara MacLean)
• Being a Professional Sports Fans Invites Social Schizophrenia (by Bruce Lerro)
• Frogs Leaping Out of Boiling Water! (by Barbara MacLean)