Modern Liberal Society - Immoral and Lawless
Modern Liberal Society - Immoral and Lawless These are harsh words on liberalism, so it is worth emphasizing to begin with that...
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Peter Critchley
Jul 22, 201812 min read
Socially Useful Production - a New Lucas Plan
CELEBRATING THE LUCAS PLAN SOCIALLY USEFUL PRODUCTION The Lucas Plan offers people ideas and direction with respect to the future of work...
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Peter Critchley
Jul 22, 20189 min read
Bigotry Speaking Out of Privilege
Interesting opinion pieces from Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph. It’s not my usual newspaper, going by the name of the Torygraph. But if an...
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Peter Critchley
Jul 19, 201835 min read
How real do you want it?
‘Humankind cannot bear very much reality.’ T.S. Eliot, Burnt Norton (1935) from The Four Quartets It is an era of trauma and terror....
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Peter Critchley
Jun 29, 201821 min read
Into the Liberal Inferno
Joel Kovel vs. the New York Times by QUINCY SAUL ‘I like to imagine Joel’s spirit, in triumphant benevolence on the arc of history,...
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Peter Critchley
Jun 28, 20185 min read
My latest ...
Social Restitution and Metabolic Restoration in the Thought of Karl Marx the link on Academia to the same work Ethics, Essence and...
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Peter Critchley
Jun 27, 201825 min read
The revolution will neither be monetized nor academically peer reviewed ... and neither will I
Looks like I'm gone again. It's time to change, new forms and new directions. Like the revolution, I move elsewhere and yet carry on. The...
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Peter Critchley
Jun 26, 20186 min read
Being at One
Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward. Job 5:7 I title volume three as a home and a resting place, and Lord alone...
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Peter Critchley
May 1, 201812 min read
Remembering Joel Kovel - pioneer eco-socialist, visionary traveller and friend
Joel Kovel tribute It was so sad to read of the passing of Joel Kovel (30 April 2018). I’ve been trying to find the right words to convey...
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Peter Critchley
Apr 30, 201837 min read
Reflections on Françoise Hardy's Personne d’Autre
New album from Françoise Hardy, Personne d’Autre. A few decades ago now, I remember Alan Price (of The Animals and House of the Rising...
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Peter Critchley
Mar 27, 201876 min read
Tatty-Bye, Dear Old Doddy, Tatty-Bye
Tatty Bye dear old Doddy 'In life, we all try to do the right things. Sometimes, we get it right and sometimes we don't get it quite...
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Peter Critchley
Mar 9, 201817 min read
Revolutionary Spirit - Liverpool 1976-1988
REVOLUTIONARY SPIRIT: THE SOUND OF LIVERPOOL, 1976 – 1988, VARIOUS ARTISTS, 5CD DELUXE BOXSET Extensive 5CD/book set exploring the...
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Peter Critchley
Mar 8, 20185 min read
Geddes and Mumford
Patrick Geddes, who coined the phrase "Think global. Act Local." in his book Cities in Evolution in 1915, is an important but neglected...
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Peter Critchley
Feb 25, 201811 min read
Free Choice against State Authority
You are free to choose, but you are not free from the consequences of your choice. Individual freedom expressed in terms of subjective...
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Peter Critchley
Feb 25, 201817 min read
Toward Reason existing in Rational Form
The Enlightenment of Steven Pinker “Enlightenment is man’s release from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is man’s inability to make...
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Peter Critchley
Feb 22, 20183 min read
Valuing What we Make
Valuing What we Make Why We Value What We Make As I’ve mentioned a few times over the years, this is my favourite text from the Bible:...
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Peter Critchley
Feb 22, 201815 min read
Enthusing the People
Enthusing the masses A long read (as usual). The bottom line concerns the need to enthuse and inspire the people, not stupefy them - 'all...
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Peter Critchley
Feb 21, 20189 min read
For lovers of William Blake – because he kept the divine vision in time of trouble.
For lovers of William Blake – because he kept the divine vision in time of trouble. IF THE WORLD HATES YOU, KNOW THAT IT HATED ME FIRST...
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Peter Critchley
Feb 15, 201819 min read
Reform and Reformation
OK, I’ve been embroiled in yet more pointless debates. Except that intervention here was important, to correct the arrant nonsense that...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 28, 201814 min read
The Imagination is truly the enemy of bigotry and dogma - In Praise of Ursula Le Guin
The imagination is truly the enemy of bigotry and dogma In Praise of Ursula Le Guin “I think hard times are coming, when we will be...
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