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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

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)

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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?” 05 – The birth of sociometry.

The next discussion involving Marx is in the section The Historic Role  Sociometry on page 8.  The section opens:

During the first quarter of the twentieth century there were several main directions of thought in development, each apparently unrelated and uncoordinated to the other.

These are the five Moreno refers to: Continue reading “Marx in “Who Shall Survive?” 05 – The birth of sociometry.”

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