I did not finish the book. It seemed an endless list of name dropping. I may get back to it.
Ninth Street Women (book)
Marx in Moreno’s Writing
I’ve been writing here about my close reading of Moreno’s writing on Marx and revolution. I’ve been reading Who Shall Survive and other sources.
I’ve stopped posting chapters here as I’m editing in Google Drive
See my whole effort here.
That link is auto updated with every edit!!
Mashed Traditions
Occasionally I come across one of my artworks that I did a decade go that I like and that stand out, here is one
Mashed Traditions
Open AI for Countries
I had an experience of a post to Reddit being rejected. Continue reading “Open AI for Countries”
Peter Pinney Update
Monograph 13: Sociodrama
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.
Continue reading “Six organising principles for social revolution (ChatGTP)”
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)