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SHARE        Saturday, August 1, 2026
Tempest in a Teapot: My Erotic Trialectic of Reading, Teaching and Writing My trialectic love life of writing reading and teaching has been cookin' and smokin' for 37 years. As I am reading I am thinking of how this might turn into an article or how it might affect a course I might be teaching. In my writing I imagine the objections of authors. In teaching I imagine the objections of teachers. My trialectic between reading, writing and speaking is ever emergent, with conflicts, crisis & synthesis.

SHARE        Saturday, July 4, 2026
Europe in Dire Straits: The European New Right Looks Towards Prometheus From the 15th through the 19th century Europe carried forward a Promethean vision which was both exhilarating & terrifying for the rest of the world. But in the 20th century after 2 world wars Europe has become a colony of the United States. This article is about the New European Right's attempt to reclaim European civilization & differentiate itself from Yankeedom. In addition how is the European Right opposite US neocons?

SHARE        Friday, June 26, 2026
From Shaman to Heroes, From Prophets to Traders: Alexander Dugin's A Russian Eurasian Perspective on Ethnogenesis For socialists the history of human societies is vital for receiving the torch and passing it to the next generation. The Asian world is rising but Western anthropologists ignore the critical role of ethnicity & the social formation of steppe peoples in social evolution. Geopolitical theorist Alexander Dugin corrects both of these imbalances. He explains that ethnicity changes throughout history but never evaporates.

SHARE        Sunday, May 24, 2026
The Heart of Americanism is the Old Testament Through Liberal Totalitarianism: A New European Right Perspective For many in the US the heart of Americanism was the Founding Father's Enlightenment: The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution & the Bill of Rights. But long before the Enlightenment US roots were in the Old Testament expressed through Puritanism and Judaism. Both appear to be liberal & the opposite of totalitarianism. This article describes how the Old Testament can be the foundation for liberal totalitarianism.

SHARE        Saturday, May 9, 2026
Right-Wing Paganism is Hardly Fascist: The European Right and the Indo-Europeans In the US "Northern Tradition" Neopagans draw from Germanic & Scandinavian traditions are looked upon suspiciously by liberal & socialist Neopagans as being more patriarchal & maybe even having ties with the Nazis. However the work of Alain de Benoist contends that Indo-European paganism is overwhelmingly anti-authoritarian. In contrasting this to Judeo-Christian monotheism it is the monotheists who are much closer to fascism.

SHARE        Friday, April 17, 2026
The Omega Seed in The Making: A Manifesto of Co-Creativity Beyond Creation Many years ago Carl Sagan's show "Cosmos" had a way of making human beings feel we were part of a great cosmic adventure. Paolo Soleri does something very similar in his book The Omega Seed. Here there is no bossy God the Father controlling the cosmos. No infantile wishes of humanity being taken care of. Human collective creativity in nature is all there is. The cosmos is like a verb, not a noun.

SHARE        Saturday, March 28, 2026
Engels Was Right, There is a Dialectic in Cosmic Evolution Contemporary scientific findings in General Systems Theory and complexity theory have confirmed that Engels was right all along: there IS a dialectic in nature, all the way from subatomic particles to human societies. But this dialectic in nature is no harmonious Garden of Eden Nature produces constant crises. In fact human societies, rather than an invader or pollutant, actually saved the biosphere from becoming an ice ball!

SHARE        Thursday, March 12, 2026
The Deep Biosocial Roots of Egalitarian Politics: Human Hunter-Gatherers, Bonobos and Chimps For the last 60 years anthropologists have had to admit that Marx was right that hunter-gatherers were politically egalitarian. These types of societies existed for 95% of human history. But how does this compare to the social life of gorillas, chimps and bonobos? As it turns out, political egalitarianism continued millions of years back. Those who claim that top-down hierarchies have always existed haven't a leg to stand on.

SHARE        Saturday, February 21, 2026
An Alliance of Socialists and Conservatives Against Liberal Centrism: Not Such Strange Fellows After All Not all conservatives are neocons or reactionaries. The New Right in Europe is against capitalism globalization imperialism & Russia-phobia. This New Right argues the real enemy is liberal centrism and insists that the division of political spectrum into right vs left benefits liberal centrists. Socialists need to separate themselves from leftism. It's liberal centrists who are terrified of socialists & conservatives uniting.

SHARE        Thursday, February 19, 2026
Liberal Democracy at the End of its Rope: The Participatory Democracy Alternative Part II In thick democracy discussion matters more than voting. Thick democracy citizens do not give up their power to representatives but decide on matters directly in workers' councils, neighborhood assemblies & municipal gatherings. Conflicts are resolved neither by representative bodies nor by a conforming consensus but instead by informed active and convivial citizens.

SHARE        Friday, February 6, 2026
Liberal Democracy at the End of its Rope: The Participatory Democracy Alternative Part I In the US the terms "liberal" "democracy" & "capitalism" are all mushed together for political propaganda purposes. Bruce Lerro's article challenges this propaganda by pointing out that these words have very different histories. He points out that thick participatory democracy is both a necessary and possible alternative.

SHARE        Friday, January 16, 2026
My Dream for BRICS and its Critics With the recent kidnapping of Nicolas Maduro it seems like a golden opportunity for BRICS to step up to the plate. But skeptics say this won't happen because BRICS is an economic not a political organization. Many Marxists say BRICS can be no alternative to the West because the countries in BRICS are too diverse politically to unite. Is it naive to hope that BRICS can overcome these real criticisms?

SHARE        Sunday, November 30, 2025
Ages in Turmoil: The Rise and Fall of States in and out of Yankeedom Many historians have argued that the history of civilizations runs in cycles. Asimov's famous character Hari Seldon in The Foundation series claimed to have discovered the laws of history in mathematics. But up to the emergence of Peter Turchin's "Cliodynamics", historians could not apply mathematics to their studies. So what does the Turchin have to say about the rise and fall of states including Yankeedom?

SHARE        Saturday, November 15, 2025
The Ritual Roots of Animism, Drama and Sports: The Work of Jane Harrison and the Cambridge Ritualists Capitalist societies are known for hollow rituals. No wonder drama sculpture and sports are perceived of as 4 separate activities. But Jane Harrison argued that animism drama & sports were once rooted in ritual & stylized reproductions of hunting planting & warring--collective activities. Harrison writes that the animism of tribal societies was much more deeply grounded in animism than Olympian polytheism.

SHARE        Tuesday, October 7, 2025
Seeds of Catholic Totalitarian Rule Against Pagans: Making the Stalin Boogeyman Look Puny Stalin tops them all when it comes to accusations of totalitarianism. Yet there is an elephant in the room. For over 2K years the Catholic Church has striven to embody totalitarianism against pagans and heretics long before the word totalitarian became used in the 20th century. The church's heartless, fanatical & obsessive attacks in Middle Age Europe included its smashing of images, destruction of temples and burning trees.

SHARE        Monday, September 29, 2025
How I've Learned to be a Social Socialist: Thriving by not Minding My Own Business When I first learned about socialism I expected people to be outgoing, sensitive to each other, kind & loving. If capitalism teaches us to be scheming, competitive & cut-throat, it would make sense that socialists should be the opposite. Instead I found socialists in the US crabby, withdrawn & lacking in the ability to pull people together. I try to embody how I think socialists should really be-convivial, joyful & fun.

SHARE        Friday, August 15, 2025
Dancing With The Devil: Is It Possible to Evaluate Stalin Dialectically? "How can you like Putin? He is a dictator who has been in power for 20 years. Venezuela is a failed country run by drug cartels. There is no democracy." Also, Gaddafi: "He dresses like a king & wants to control all the African gold. He murders his own people." These are loaded vice words concocted by the CIA in the early 1950s. This article will do an in-depth analysis of perhaps the biggest boogey man in the world, Stalin.

SHARE        Tuesday, July 15, 2025
Matriarchy, Witchery and the Great Goddess: A Neopagan Marxist Analysis and Synthesis Roughly 130 years Engels wrote The Origin of the Family, Private Property & the State. In it he relied on the theories of matriarchies. More recent Marxists have upgraded Engels' theory but they don't include feminist spirituality and Neopaganism over the last 50 years. My article sympathetically criticizes both Engels and feminist spirituality without throwing the baby out with the bath water. See for yourself.

SHARE        Saturday, June 28, 2025
Magical Theatricality in the Ice Age Caves: Why it Should Matter to Socialists What was really going on in the Ice Age caves inhabited by Cro-Magnons? John Pfeiffer and David Lewis Williams argue that the entire cave was a magical theatrical performance involving music, mask-making, sculpture and dance designed to create an ordeal for an initiation rite of passage. Hold tight!

SHARE        Friday, June 13, 2025
Jean Piaget vs Lev Vygotsky: Communist Criticisms of Genetic Epistemology How important are small groups to a child's individual development? Piaget says they are inconsequential while Vygotsky says they are vital. Piaget says that cognitive development ends before 20 years of age. How can it be that for the next 50 years there is no cognitive development? Are all of Piaget's' stages of development universal or do they vary with social class and the type of society?

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