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Three Podcasts – Revolution and more.

I recently listened to three exellent podcasts on theory and practice in the revolutionary sphere.

  1.  Jonathan Cordero: Indigenous Sovereign Futures,
    Organized by the Long  Now Foundation.

https://play.pocketcasts.com/podcasts/31ae3230-2c09-012e-096b-00163e1b201c

Alternative visions for social change rooted in the frameworks of capitalism and colonialism only reproduce contemporary structures of power. How can indigenous perspectives and knowledge inform the structural transformation necessary to improve the health of the natural world and of human communities? Continue reading “Three Podcasts – Revolution and more.”

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Six organising principles for social revolution (ChatGTP)

What follows is all ChatGTP

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“The 6-point list doesn’t come directly from a single source—it’s a synthesis of ideas grounded in Marxist theory, historical revolutionary movements, and organizing principles from figures like Rosa Luxemburg, Antonio Gramsci, and Paulo Freire, combined with insights from contemporary social movements. Continue reading “Six organising principles for social revolution (ChatGTP)”

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Monograph 11 – Marxism without Marx 

Onto the next and final paragraph in the same section, Sociometry, Sociology and Scientific Socialism.  (p.21)

Sociometry did not develop in a vacuum; many generations of social philosophers have anticipated and formulated a number of the hypotheses which I have brought to a clearer formulation and empirical test. However, I do not have any illusions as to my importance, I am fully aware that sociometry might have come into existence without me, just like sociology would have come into existence in France without Comte, and Marxism in Germany and Russia without Marx. (Moreno, 1979, p. 21)

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Marx in “Who Shall Survive?” 07 – Social Science

The section, Sociometry, Sociology and Scientific Socialism opens (page 12):

In the last hundred and fifty years three main currents of social thought developed, sociology, scientific socialism and sociometry, each related to a different geographic and cultural area: sociology to France, socialism to Germany-Russia, and sociometry to the USA.

Moreno is honouring Marxism by referring to “scientific socialism”. Moreno sees himself in this tradition of developing a third science, one that relates to humans. Continue reading “Marx in “Who Shall Survive?” 07 – Social Science”

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Marx in “Who Shall Survive?” 04 – Unity of Humankind

The next mention of Marx is in the section called Social and  Organic Unity of Mankind. I’m taking the thesis implied in this title as the first point for discussion. Then I address the section where Moreno references Marx about Christianity. The section opens with the famous lines:

A truly therapeutic procedure cannot have less an objective
than the whole of mankind. But no adequate therapy can be
prescribed as long as mankind is not a unity in some fashion and as long as its organization remains unknown.

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Marx in Who Shall Survive? 02 – Human agency

… spontaneity-creativity [is the] propelling force in human progress, beyond and independent from … socio-economic motives…

(Moreno, 1978; xiv, xv)

This is from the same paragraph in Who Shall Survive? I used as the basis for my last post. The passage asks question: What is the propelling force in human progress?

Marx and Moreno differ. Moreno is adamant it is  spontaneity-creativity.  He implies that for Marx it is socio-economic motives. Continue reading “Marx in Who Shall Survive? 02 – Human agency”

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The First Mention of Marxism in “Who Shall Survive?” – Religion

The first time Moreno mentions Marx in Who Shall Survive?, is in the Preludes of the Sociometric Movement (1978; xiv, xv)

The advent of sociometry cannot be understood without appraising my presociometric background and the historic-ideological setting in the Western world, during and after the First World War. Marxism and psychoanalysis, the two opposites, each had spent their theoretic bolt, the one with Nikolai Lenin’s “State and Revolution” (1917), the other with Sigmund Freud’s “Civilization and Its Discontents” (1929). The two opposites had one thing in common: they both rejected religion, they both disavowed he idea of a community which is based on spontaneous love, un-selfishness and sainthood, on positive goodness and naive cooperativeness. I took a position contradictory to both, the side of positive religion.

To summarise: Moreno makes it clear he is not creating his work in a vacuum. Freud and Marx are the ideological setting in the Western world, during and after the First World War. Moreno says “The two opposites had one thing in common: they both rejected religion”. Moreno took the side of positive religion. Continue reading “The First Mention of Marxism in “Who Shall Survive?” – Religion”

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