Metaphorics - Myth, Metaphysics, and Metaphor
Metaphorics - Mythology, Metaphysics, and Metaphor This essay was sparked by a quote on Mythos and mythology as things which give access...
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Peter Critchley
Nov 18, 202213 min read
Extending and Entrenching the Corporate Form
Extending and Entrenching the Corporate Form In 1995 I was on the accredited Masters European Industrial Relations and Human Resources...
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Peter Critchley
Feb 3, 20226 min read
Beyond Leviathan
Beyond Leviathan - The Critique of the State as Social Power In a recent paper, Ross Mittiga argues for the superiority of authoritarian...
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Peter Critchley
Dec 9, 202014 min read
Exposing the 'non-political' politics of the 'classless' class
In a tweet of 30th September, Greta Thunberg wrote this: “Ending fossil capitalism doesn't mean we have to implement socialism. We're...
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Peter Critchley
Dec 1, 20205 min read
Climate Rebellion - Going Beyond the Default Options
Ten years ago, in Of Gods and Gaia, I analysed various proposals for planetary management and engineering to deal with the looming...
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Peter Critchley
Nov 25, 20208 min read
The Golden Bough
Joseph Mallord William Turner, "The Golden Bough." This is a painting I've always loved. I saw it first on the front cover of a...
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Peter Critchley
Nov 21, 202050 min read
Against Environmentalist Non-Politics
Against Environmental Non-Politics I’m finding the politics of climate activism increasingly incoherent. Activists call it a...
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Peter Critchley
Nov 19, 202011 min read
Reformation against Abstraction
The Need for Reformation Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam (c1466-1536) is one of my most favourite figures in the history of ideas, a man...
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Peter Critchley
Nov 17, 20209 min read
The Critique of Enlightened Self-Interest
The Critique of Enlightened Self-Interest I am reading theorists working in the field of the commons advancing 'enlightened...
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Peter Critchley
Nov 17, 202010 min read
Socialism or Barbarism - Liberal Centrism Cannot Hold
"The Left must advance an alternative modernity." And an alternative morality, I would insist. I wish to write a few words on Erik...
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Peter Critchley
Nov 15, 202022 min read
The Ecology of Hope
The End of Civilisation or the End of the Capital System Affirming a Democratic Ecology against the Ecology of Fear The overwhelming...
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Peter Critchley
Nov 14, 202010 min read
The Return of Materialist Dialectics
My review of John Bellamy Foster's The Return of Nature is generating some interest. With a substantial second part on Engels, this book...
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Peter Critchley
Nov 11, 20208 min read
Reclaiming Socialism, Reframing Conservatism
This post is written in response to an article which compares and contrasts left- and right-wing political perspectives. From a...
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Peter Critchley
Nov 3, 20199 min read
Class, Capital, Climate Change, and the Common Good
Class, Capital, Climate Change, and the Common Good I found this ‘Open Letter to Greta Thunberg’ on a site subtitled ‘A rational take on...
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Peter Critchley
Oct 24, 20196 min read
Tell The Truth - The Capital System is the Problem
Extinction Rebellion must decide if it is anti-capitalist – and this greenwashing mining company shows us why by Amardeep Dhillon...
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Peter Critchley
Oct 17, 201937 min read
Time for a Transformation
Time for a Transformation On 16 September 2019, The Financial Times launched a campaign for a better form of capitalism with its powerful...
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Peter Critchley
Sep 14, 20197 min read
Insidious Ideology
I agree with much of George Monbiot’s critique of neoliberalism here. The insidious ideology pushing us towards a Brexit cliff-edge I...
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Peter Critchley
Jun 18, 201918 min read
The Labour Metaphysic and the Redemptive Myth of Wealth: Resolidifying 2
The Labour Metaphysic and the Redemptive Myth of Wealth Resolidifying 2 When I first started to write on socialism and class, I was made...
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Peter Critchley
Apr 17, 20197 min read
Christian Democracy in the collision of moral and economic imperatives
Christian Democracy in the collision of moral and economic imperatives This is an interesting read for me, as a socialist with religious...
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