A Metamodern Solution
I was inspired to write this article by the YouTuber Tom Nicholas, who tends to concentrate on social / political issues, and by another...
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AGAINST THE OLIGARCHY
In many parts of the world, including the UK, a small class has arisen that dominates the economy and exerts an over-weaning power over politics. They are somewhat like pre-revolutionary French aristocrats who hold social, economic and legal privileges unavailable to the rest of us. This is a leftist blog campaigning for economic democracy, social justice inspired by current affairs in the UK and around the world. There needs to be a socialist option in politics for democracy to survive. Please comment and share, and stand againsttheoligarchy.net
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The Government’s Economic Vandalism did not Begin or End with Liz Truss:
An Overview of the UK Economy. The UK has been in a dire economic position for more than a decade now. Starting with the financial...
Goblins versus Unicorns:
Liz Truss, the Goblin Queen of Destruction, versus Kier Starmer, the Half-Hearted Unicorn. VS. The Labour Conference has finally given...
My Hate Letter to the Affluent Property Owning Class:
Dear Affluent Property Owners, Most of you probably try to be decent, I think you are no more enamoured with our society as it currently...
A Dark Future?
Political Futurology in an Age of Decline Futurology is the study of present trends, and an attempt to extrapolate the way they might...
‘Party-gate’ has been a lost Opportunity:
What should be the strategy of the Left? Electoral victory, Revolution, or both? Whilst the attractiveness of activism and industrial...
The Fall of Boris Johnson?
With the government mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic, the ‘green-washing’ at COP26 and the current corruption scandal that won’t...
Are the Tories now Socialists? How do the real Socialists win Power?
In 2020, due to the Covid 19 pandemic, the UK government spent more in a year than it ever had done before. With the Conservatives...
The Rise and Fall of Individualism
Tony Blair’s intervention in the debate on the NATO defeatin Afghanistan and MP’s complaints to the government that the project for...
Why the Victory of the Taliban in Afghanistan is a good thing:
By the start of 2002 the NATO forces in Afghanistan had won the war and controlled the country – the Taliban, who were not popular there,...
The Real Life Marxist Solution and why Starmer is wrong to ‘embrace’ Blair.
In his search to find ‘values’ Kier Starmer has told the Labour Party to ‘embrace’ Tony Blair. Not only is this bad in terms of optics...
Why the UK needs a separate and viable Socialist Party.
Great powers in decline often find it difficult to adjust to their new place in the world and go through revolutionary changes at home....
POLITICAL ‘ISMs’ OF HISTORY
This list of historical political ‘isms’ is meant as a prequel to my list of ‘Twenty-two political isms’ in which I hoped to briefly...
TWENTY-TWO POLITICAL ‘ISMs’
Here, I have attempted to define a comprehensive collection of political theories. Most people will have a vague notion of most of them,...
Why The British Political System is Biased towards the Conservatives
and Why Constitutional Reform is Desperately Needed. The Conservative Party has been in power in the UK for 69 of the last 100 years. For...
Oligarchy, Social Democracy and the Future of Politics.
Democratic Capitalism has failed. Over the past few decades it has slowly morphed into an oligarchy – one with elements of democracy, but...
The COVID-19 outbreak: How has political ideology effected the response of governments?
The Coronovirus - or more specifically, the disease it initiates, Covid-19 - broke out in the Hubei province of China in mid November...
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