This research and my comments are of more than academic interest as you may have gathered. I want to organise a regular sociodrama group linked to our local psychodrama community. The sociodrama is to be a form scientific socialism, influenced by Marx and Moreno. Continue reading “Monograph 13: Sociodrama”
Monograph 12: Experimental Revolution.
Lets get going with the next references to Marx. It is in a chapter called Experimental Social Revolution (pp.27-31) The whole chapter is littered with references to Marx, Lenin, and revolution, I need to quote the whole section. Continue reading “Monograph 12: Experimental Revolution.”
Three Podcasts – Revolution and more.
I recently listened to three exellent podcasts on theory and practice in the revolutionary sphere.
- 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.”
Six organising principles for social revolution (ChatGTP)
What follows is all ChatGTP
If the core truth is “the many must defeat the few,” then the task is to make that reality both visible and compelling. The few maintain power by obscuring this dynamic—dividing the many, naturalizing hierarchy, and disguising their fragility. The challenge is to unveil their dependence on the many while fostering solidarity and collective power.
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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)
10. Sociometry and revolutionary socialism
The next mention of Marx is in the same section, Sociometry, Sociology and Scientific Socialism. I’ll quote the paragraph where we see Marxian pop up at the end (pp. 20–21). I’ll then quote some lines from the paragraph and comment in detail. Continue reading “10. Sociometry and revolutionary socialism”
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”
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.
Continue reading “Marx in “Who Shall Survive?” 04 – Unity of Humankind”
Marx in “Who Shall Survive?” 03 – Working with Prostitutes.
The subject of this post is a little further on in the Preface of “Who Shall Survive?”. It is in a section called 1913-1914, Genesis of Group Psychotherapy. (xxviii) I’ve broken the selected passage into three sections each with my comment. Continue reading “Marx in “Who Shall Survive?” 03 – Working with Prostitutes.”
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”