We Don’t See the Whole Damn Picture
Recently I’ve been reading up Georg Lukács major work: History and Class consciousness. And there’s one major concept that appears not just thoughout the work but stressed as very important Continue Reading
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Internalised Capitalism
I’ll get straight to the point (bullet point pun not intended), here are some signs major themes that define ‘internalised capitalism’, it’s summarised in bullet point format, so it’s Continue Reading
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
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
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
The Marxian Model: Base and Superstructure
The following quote is the famous passage that seeded the famous base and superstructure model in Marxian theory. “The sum total of these relations of production constitutes the economic Continue Reading