Theory – What Way Forward?

The Science Of Materialist Dialectics

February 13, 2022February 13, 2022 TJMLeave a comment

An Overview of Materialist Dialectics

Populism And Class

April 24, 2018February 3, 2019 TJMLeave a comment

The victory of the populist movement is merely a consolidation of the bourgeois order... the defining aspect of the radical movement... [is] its tendency to develop independently from the bourgeois order.

On Ethics

January 7, 2015February 3, 2019 TJM1 Comment

Advocates of the various religions claim that the ethical "contribution” of religion is the most pressing argument for its acceptance by society. Without religion, they argue, society is deprived of a universal “standard of ethics.”

The Worldliness Of Religion

January 2, 2015February 17, 2019 TJMLeave a comment

Religion has played a preponderant role in the history of humanity. Religion remains, however, an unfathomable mystery for the positivist sciences. All the positivist sciences and each of the various outlooks of contemporary agnostic secularism share a root epistemology in common with each other and with religion. The essential marker of every approach they make… Continue reading The Worldliness Of Religion

Biography And Positivism

November 4, 2014June 12, 2018 TJM1 Comment

Introduction Biography is a branch of social studies which examines the personality in history. The task of biography is to place the individual personality in a concrete historical setting and to explain the outcome of that individual's practice based on this setting. Even with a wealth of information and sources the individual can never be… Continue reading Biography And Positivism

Idealist Epistemology and Historical Idealism (2012)

July 12, 2012May 11, 2019 TJMLeave a comment

Reconstructed in 2013 from journal notes from the summer of 2012, after studying Marxist and non-Marxist philosophy, including Lenin, Trotsky, Ilyenkov, Mehring, Fourth International Magazine, “Trotskyism Versus Revisionism,” and many general reference books, audio books and websites. Part 1 is especially influenced by Lenin. Part 2 is especially indebted to Mehring. PART 1 There are… Continue reading Idealist Epistemology and Historical Idealism (2012)

Capitalist Ideology and Historical Materialism (2011)

July 29, 2011June 12, 2018 TJMLeave a comment

Written in the summer of 2011, informed by a close reading of Plekhanov, Labriola and other classical Marxists The social conditions of capitalist society make up the experience of members of that society. These experiences – of capitalist economic relationships, social hierarchies and cultural institutions – become crystallized in abstract concepts. The social conditions of… Continue reading Capitalist Ideology and Historical Materialism (2011)