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Peter Critchley

Jan 10, 202215 min read

Pushing Back Against the Anti-Politics that is Tearing Society Apart

Pushing Back Against the Anti-Politics that is Tearing Society Apart I would like to comment on Giles Fraser's article published in...

Peter Critchley

Aug 30, 202016 min read

Materialist Dialectics

It is exactly twenty five years ago since I was accepted as a doctoral student at Manchester, so I’ve been looking back, with a mixture...

Peter Critchley

Dec 9, 20192 min read

Significant and Meticulous

My work on Marx is described as ‘significant’ and ‘meticulous’ by Barbara Harriss-White in The Socialist Register. It is, actually. And...

Peter Critchley

Sep 11, 201965 min read

System Change and Social Transformation

I came across this video and statement from Rob Hopkins of the Transitions Towns movement. I like Rob and his work on transitions. I...

Peter Critchley

Sep 1, 20198 min read

Recovering the Ethical Dimensions of Socialism

I wish to discuss aspects of this article, reviewing a new book by Erik Olin Wright: How to be an anti-capitalist in the 21st century I’d...