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CORONAV_R_S - BREAKING AND REMAKING CHAINS
CORONA V _ R _ S Remove the I and U and take them elsewhere into the building of a new public community based on the unity of each and...
Peter Critchley
Apr 10, 202014 min read
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Reconstituting Public Life through Socialist Transformation
Socialism and class Are we are all socialists now? I think not. 'Big' government as such is not socialism. We are being asked to...
Peter Critchley
Apr 9, 202010 min read
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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
Dec 9, 20192 min read
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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...
Peter Critchley
Nov 3, 20199 min read
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Restoring the Moral Compass
Restoring the Moral Compass Social and Moral Restoration and The Need for an Authoritative Moral Framework “The test of the morality of a...
Peter Critchley
Sep 28, 201917 min read
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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...
Peter Critchley
Sep 14, 20197 min read
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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 11, 201965 min read
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Socialism and Liberalism
Socialism and Liberalism Let me start by declaring myself an ‘enemy’ of ‘the Open Society.’ If you are smart enough, you will understand...
Peter Critchley
Sep 4, 201951 min read
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The True Commonwealth of Gerrard Winstanley
Here’s a couple of recent articles highlighting the contemporary relevance of the ideas, example, and vision of the seventeenth century...
Peter Critchley
Sep 1, 20193 min read
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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...
Peter Critchley
Sep 1, 20198 min read
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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...
Peter Critchley
Jun 18, 201918 min read
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Rebuilding Labour's Foundations: Resolidifying
Rebuilding Labour's Foundations Resolidifying 1 Labourism is often denigrated or dismissed as a labour metaphysic that privileges working...
Peter Critchley
Jun 18, 201911 min read
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My Conception of Socialism
My Conception of Socialism I have been a socialist all my life and I openly identify as a socialist. The argument I make in my work is...
Peter Critchley
May 30, 201941 min read
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The Inversion of the Moral Law
Capital and the Inversion of the Moral Law The billionaires’ donations will turn Notre Dame into a monument to hypocrisy by Aditya...
Peter Critchley
Apr 18, 201918 min read
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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...
Peter Critchley
Apr 17, 20197 min read
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