Summary of Part IIn Part I of this article I contrasted sixteen ways in which communist macro-psychology differs from liberal micro-psychology as it is practiced in the United States. I…
OrientationThis article is about the differences between the micro psychology of liberals and the macro psychology of communists. Differences include: how society and the individual is configured; the impact of…
OrientationHow I got involved in modelingMy father’s family was very poor. He was one of seven kids who lived in Brooklyn New York, the sons and daughters of an Italian-American…
OrientationWhat are the characteristics of a hero? Do you have to be famous to be a hero? How valuable or counter-productive is it for celebrities to be our heroes? Some feel that even having…
OrientationWhy should you be interested in Neopagan process philosophy if you are a socialist/communist? I have written many articles and a book titled The Magikal Enchantment of Materialism: Why Marxists Need…
OrientationSituating my article Often the rise of China and the Middle East appears to many Westerners as something recent, maybe 30 years old. Before that? Is Western dominance beginning with…
OrientationWhat is politics? Nine Questions for Determining What is PoliticsIn Part I of my article Seven Theories of Politics I posed ten questions for narrowing down what the range for defining what…
How the ideology of Eurocentrism, paternalism, racism and imperialism keeps the West in a fog about how badly its situation actually is. International Relations (IR) theory fails to deliver on…
When I was about seven years old I used to play a “let’s pretend” baseball game in our backyard. I laid out 4 rags I’d gotten from the garage and…
Imprisoned by romantic ideas about what art and artists are like, our notions of creativity seem to begin and end with individuals. But there are moments in capitalist societies when…
From Unconscious Sleeping Giants to Conscious Builders of Barricades Part I Orientation One purpose of this article is to get you to think of creativity in a whole new way.…
Outside of Yankeedom, regardless of class, the people of Mordor are rightfully seen - to paraphrase Sam Cooke - as not knowing anything about geography, history or politics. Bruce Lerro's…
East vs West and The Ecological, Political and Economic Reasons for Their Differences OrientationHow much do left brain pathologies have to do with culture and geography? Recently I was interviewed…
OrientationLeninist and anarchist shortcomings in relation to rhetoricA little over three years ago I wrote an article about how bad Mordor Leninists and anarchists are about knowing about, let alone using rhetorical…
In Part I of this article Bruce Lerro described how when the left brain gets out of control the results can be either schizophrenia or modern art. In Part II…
Orientation Left and right brain divisions and dependencies Why is the brain so clearly and deeply divided? Why are the two cerebral hemispheres asymmetrical? Is the division of labor in the brain…
How dare you! Anyone who is critical of the Democratic party from the left will be greeted by these slogans, warnings and accusations. What is dogmatism? A little over a…
Orientation Mythology and folklore can be used for political and religious purposes whether they be to support socialism or fascism. What was going on at the end of the 19th century…
Orientation Purpose of this article Almost 2 years ago I wrote an article called Aryan Right-Wing Mythology for the New Age based on the work of Robert Ellwood (The Politics of Myth).…
Orientation Who are Neocons and Neoliberals today? In the collapsing Mordor society of today we have two contending foreign policy theoretical tendencies, the Neocon realists and the Neoliberal globalists. The…
Magick is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with the Will. ― Aleister Crowley, The Book of Thoth ORIENTATION Throwing the…
ORIENTATION When I first considered myself a socialist revolutionary in 1970, I was hounded by free marketers’ challenge: “name me one country where socialism works”. These market fundamentalists would then…
ORIENTATION Why do political science and neoclassical economics go in one ear and out the other? A human being who has a fully integrated social body understands that economics is…
ORIENTATION In my last article I showed how the word “totalitarian” was used as a loaded vice word to attack the Soviet Union after World War II and to red-bait…
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the center cannot hold Mere anarchy is loosed up the world…. The best lack…
“The party is always right, even when it’s wrong” – Democratic Workers Party slogan ORIENTATION Everybody knows what cults are People who join cults are mentally unstable before they join…
I wrote this article over four years ago in 2016 for the purpose of challenging left liberals to face the fact that they have no party. In re-reading it today,…
Orientation From the macro to the micro When it comes to stereotypes of the masses of revolutionary people, the masses have built barricades that look like forts which they hide…
Orientation In Part I of this article, I begin by grounding neoliberal psychology in the political and economic reality of neoliberalism between 1970 to 2020. First, we discussed the historical origins of…
Orientation In this two-part article, I trace facets of neoliberal psychology over a 50 years period, from 1970 to present. The first facet of neoliberal psychology is the “realist” phase…
Religion, nationalism and sports as propaganda for the ruling class In the closing section of my course Brainwashing Propaganda and Rhetoric: Dark Psychology in the 20th Century, I ask my students to compare…
Leading a double life When my partner, Barbara, first opened an account on Facebook, she used it in a way that most people in Yankeedom use it. Her network was…
How to conceive of the two-party system Lesser of two evils Among liberals and the different types of socialists, when the subject of the Democratic Party comes up, there are…
Claim and Qualification For the first time in well over 70 years, the words “capitalism” and “socialism” can be circulated among the general public in the United States. However, what…
In the periphery of the circles in which I travel, people do not actively defend what it means to be a member of the Democratic Party. They come on much…
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