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S***’s Creek Without Marxist Dialectics: A brief history of Britain

Introduction I’ve been working on this article for some time now, here and there dipping into Historical materialism, the primary Marxist methodology to studying not just history, but the approach Continue Reading

Posted On : 21st April 2025 Published By : Epicurus Of Albion
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The Great Economic Chain

  The Great Chain of Being was once a dominant concept that provided a vertically ranked hierarchical structure to the universe, with God at the top, followed by angels, humans, Continue Reading

Posted On : 11th September 2024 Published By : Epicurus Of Albion
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Generation X: The Lazy Generation!

In response to an internet comment in which someone derided Generation X as ‘the Lazy Generation.’   I’m a member of Generation X, those people born roughly between 1965 and Continue Reading

Posted On : 8th April 2024 Published By : Comicus Muo
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Evil demands acceptance, the woke cultural purge of the UK Continues.

Evil demands acceptance, good is self-evident, evil demands that you believe it to be true, whilst truth always stands alone, it is good because it is true.   This is Continue Reading

Posted On : 3rd April 2024 Published By : Comicus Muo
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Conscription in the UK

I’m sure that General Sir Patrick Sanders who recently came up with idea of bolstering the armed forces by conscripting the youth of today thinks that the young men of Continue Reading

Posted On : 26th January 2024 Published By : Comicus Muo
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Legacy of Dead Labour

“Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted Continue Reading

Posted On : 18th December 2023 Published By : Epicurus Of Albion
Any camera that can see inside a vehicle, that can tell whether you are using a mobile phone or are wearing a seatbelt is clearly military technology being used against the populace and for one, this type of ever-increasing surveillance is making me sick.
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The Petrified State – Who are the ‘Far Right?’

Any camera that can see inside a vehicle, that can tell whether you are using a mobile phone or are wearing a seatbelt is clearly military technology being used against Continue Reading

Posted On : 28th November 2023 Published By : Comicus Muo
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Cicero vs Lucius Sergius Catilina

We’ve got a tale that has it all—ambition, treachery, high-stakes political drama, and the ultimate clash of ideologies. It’s the story of Lucius Sergius Catilina, known to us as Catiline.  Continue Reading

Posted On : 6th September 2023 Published By : Comicus Muo
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The Nexus of Labor and Property

In political and philosophical discourse, the nexus between labour and property has been a longstanding focal point. One of the stars who grappled with this longstanding interplay was none other Continue Reading

Posted On : 23rd August 2023 Published By : Epicurus Of Albion
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Who are the capitalist class really?

Spend some time dwelling within the political corners of the internet, and it won’t be long until you come across a persistent “-ism” that refers to our current economic system. Continue Reading

Posted On : 21st June 2023 Published By : Epicurus Of Albion
Cash is King! Why You Should Ditch Digital Money for Good
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Don’t give the Globalists your money, cut off their cash, build a utopia by doing favors instead!

https://youtu.be/M3r8iEnm04w The world is going crazy, the divide between the politicians and the people has never been greater.  Our elected representatives spend all their time preaching their luxury beliefs, signaling Continue Reading

Posted On : 31st May 2023 Published By : Comicus Muo
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Capitalism and the Bottomless Pit of Satisfaction: Exploring Consumer Culture through Schopenhauer’s Lens

If I were to employ a Schopenhauerian critique on consumer culture it would be how capitalism exploits the striving will inherent in the human condition. “All striving comes from lack, Continue Reading

Posted On : 14th May 2023 Published By : Epicurus Of Albion
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Why Fiat Currency is Bad!

  Your dollars, pounds or euros aren’t worth the paper they are printed on.  Every time you spend some money you are engaging in an act of faith, and that’s Continue Reading

Posted On : 10th May 2023 Published By : Comicus Muo
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Beyond Survival: The Philosophical Implications of Wants and Needs

What is the difference between a want and a need? Is it possible to live without any wants? How has technology affected our wants and needs? These are just a Continue Reading

Posted On : 31st March 2023 Published By : Epicurus Of Albion
Isn't it time we had Quantitative easing for the masses
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Internalised Capitalism

So here are some signs major themes that define ‘internalised capitalism’, it’s summarised in bullet point format, so it’s easy on the eyes.   Signs of internalised capitalism – You Continue Reading

Posted On : 25th February 2023 Published By : Epicurus Of Albion
Politicians Fix the Country, Not the World
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A message to our politicians, Fix the country, not the World!

We working class folk, the unsung heroes who keep our country running deserve much more recognition and support from our politicians, who it seems have forgotten that we exist!  From Continue Reading

Posted On : 25th February 2023 Published By : Comicus Muo
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Why did the Soviet Union collapse?

The collapse of the Soviet Union was one of the defining events of the 20th century. The world’s first socialist state, the Soviet Union had been a major global power Continue Reading

Posted On : 11th February 2023 Published By : Comicus Muo
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Alexander Hamilton and Protectionism

Alexander Hamilton who served as the first Secretary of the Treasury of the United States in the late 18th and early 19th centuries believed that protectionism was in the best Continue Reading

Posted On : 2nd February 2023 Published By : Comicus Muo

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