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Introduction Never before in human history has a small minority wielded this degree of control over the lives of the majority with…
The left in western democracies has been pretty much in free fall since the onset of neoliberal globalization. This is quite ironic…
The buffoons who orchestrate fascism, with its quack science, idiocy, penchant for violence and grotesque hypermasculinity, are ripe for satire. It is…
Once class recedes and the professional class sets the agenda, politics changes character. It becomes a contest over symbols rather than substance,…
The ideology of the modern state is Hobbesianism – the notion that the state is a rational secular institution whose existence is…
Back in the early 1970s, for a book titled What Is To Be Undone, I looked from deep within the Sixties but at…
In the early 1970s, in a book titled What Is To Be Undone, I took a look at the New Left movements…
Victorian Trades Hall is the oldest continuously operating trades hall in the world. And even before it was constructed, in 1856, the…
I was recently surveying my computerās contents and I came across the text of a book I had written over a half…
No longer just a problem of the industrialized North, birth rates are declining for everyone, everywhere, all at once. In its panic…
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