Home / Perspectives Archive of our Perspectives 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 20162023 (21) Crowds, Masses and Movements: Right Wing and Left Wing Macro Social Psychology (by Bruce Lerro) 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)2022 (25) 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)2021 (24) 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)2020 (17) 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)2019 (5) 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)2018 (8) 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)2017 (11) 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)2016 (19) “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)