Tag Archives: Francis Fukuyama

The Middle Class Can Counter Today’s Zero-sum Game

Posted on July 15, 2021 by greg

The phrase the end of history was first used by French philosopher and mathematician Antoine Augustin Cournot in 1861 “to refer to the end of the historical dynamic with the perfection of civil society”. The disintegration of the former Soviet … Continue reading →

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On Understanding Identity Politics and Exploitation

Posted on February 20, 2021 by greg

The concept of identity politics was originally coined in 1977 by the Combahee River Collective, a group of black lesbian socialist feminists who recognized the need for their own autonomous politics as they confronted racism in the women’s movement, sexism … Continue reading →

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The Reawakening of the Ongoing Class Struggle for Economic Stability

Posted on June 20, 2020 by greg

Neoliberalism intensifies and extends itself by displacing competing socioeconomic forms that restrict it. This means that a through, nuanced, comprehension of capitalism is more important than ever for understanding neoliberal social life and psychology. Marx and Engel’s analysis of capitalism … Continue reading →

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Address Identity Politics not Morality to Fix Today’s Polarization

Posted on August 20, 2019 by greg

Nietzsche contends that power-relations are at the basis of all social institutions. Ideologies are the principal and most cost-effective means whereby the mass of humanity is, and always has been, manipulated and controlled by its leaders. Ideologies all utilize morality … Continue reading →

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The End of History – A Journey

Posted on September 1, 2013 by admin

The Enlightenment was a movement to displace the dogged adherence to established opinions and customs, and to enlighten a population the system had kept in the dark. Voltaire (1694-1778) relied upon his books to spread the light (knowledge) across Europe. Georg … Continue reading →

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