The Love That Transcends
I wrote this back in 2020 but filed it away for another day and promptly forgot it. I intended to expand the ideas here in light of the...
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Peter Critchley
Jun 10, 20235 min read
Reclaiming Conservatism
A conservatism which tells government – or any other collective entity - to stay out of the lives of individuals isn't conservatism at...
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Peter Critchley
May 10, 20238 min read
Ejecting but not Rejecting Liberalism - the Post-Liberal Case
Ejecting but not Rejecting Liberalism This piece is in response to Steven Tucker's essay The cult of progress: John Stuart Mill’s prison...
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Peter Critchley
Apr 11, 202334 min read
Prospects for a New Politics
Prospects for a New Politics The Left is based on universality and solidarity. The most stupid and self-defeating thing the Left could...
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Peter Critchley
Apr 4, 20234 min read
Recovering the Working Class Voice
I was intrigued to learn that Julie Burchill started to follow me on Twitter. It took me by surprise. I don't do much on there except...
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Peter Critchley
Apr 3, 20235 min read
Reclaiming and Re-Grounding Socialism
“I remember when we had: a working NHS, free university education, public libraries; an integrated railway service; subsidised railway...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 15, 202319 min read
The Left is Socialist and Universalist or it is no Left at all
The Left is Socialist and Universalist or it is no Left at all “The entire historical and political basis of the Left is solidarity,...
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Peter Critchley
Aug 22, 202212 min read
Marx and Rational Freedom
Marx and Rational Freedom I read Marx critically and not theologically, which is how Marx intended he be read. I appreciate the fact that...
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Peter Critchley
Jul 23, 202246 min read
Technocracy is not Socialism
Technocracy is not Socialism It’s soul-destroying for me to record that this meme has received 15 thousand likes on FB. I have explained...
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Peter Critchley
Feb 12, 202212 min read
The Mainstream Left and the Working Class
How the Left betrayed the truckers In response to this article in Unheard, I read this comment: The social milieu susceptible to wokeness...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 11, 202117 min read
Make Orwell Fiction Again
The horn-wearing Q-shaman carrying a six-foot spear with an American stars and stripes flag tied just below the blade has been arrested....
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Peter Critchley
Dec 18, 202025 min read
How the Sophist Politics of the Contemporary ‘Left’ Liberates the Rich and Powerful
How the Sophist Politics of the Contemporary ‘Left’ Liberates the Rich and Powerful I shall begin by commenting on the recent article How...
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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
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 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
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...
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Peter Critchley
Apr 19, 20209 min read
Restoring Trust and Connection in the New Collaborative Social Order
Pope Francis’ Homily on 20th Anniversary of Divine Mercy Sunday (Full Text) Pope Francis has frequently stated that ‘this economy kills.’...
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