The scientists of the USSR defined consciousness as a ‘special arrangement of matter’ at a time when many bourgeois scientists in the West were still
Tag: Karl Marx
Email: Karl Marx as the ‘New’ Plotinus! (25.4.2021)
Dear Gillian Philosophy today, is mostly a preparation for a pay-cheque or terminal unemployment (probably the latter). Whereas in ancient Greece and Rome, philosophy was
Email: Encountering Joseph McCabe (1867-1955) – [15.4.2021]
Sometime ago I was introduced to Joseph McCabe. In 1883 in the UK (aged 15) he entered a Franciscan Monastery in the UK. He trained for
The Challenge of Marx Toward Religion
This is very much a loaded question. Why does a man who rejects the greed and oppression inherent within the capitalist ideology (just as Jesus
Karl Marx: The Myth of Skilled and Unskilled Labour (1867)
The process of production, considered on the one hand as the unity of the labour-process and the process of creating value, is production of commodities;
Email: The Divine ‘Madness’ Henry VIII & William Blake (9.11.2020)
Dear Gillian Interesting. William Blake, if I remember rightly, was charged with heresy by the Church for daring to say he could ‘see God everywhere’,
