An introduction to Goran Therborn’s post-Marxist agenda for political and social change.

An introduction to the concept of Critical Theory and its proponents, including Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno.

This tome by Eatwell and Wright is without doubt a sound introduction to the most important political ideologies of the modern era.

Materialism is the tendency to consider physical comfort as more important than spiritual beliefs. It is a common issue that is found in countries all over the world, particularly in power production countries such as India and China. Materialism can be identified by its unfair distribution of wealth amongst all people. Scholars such as Karl Marx have identified materialism as a key issue, and a key faction behind the wide chasm of ‘haves’ and ‘have not’s’ that we experience in our society. Materialism is also an issue tackled by fundamentalist religious groups who believe our current obsession with physical objects and material success is in conflict with their key teachings, such as those in the bible and the Qur’an.

Although Karl Marx died long ago, his works are much alive today and in fact constitutes the main body of conceptual and theoretical work within conflict perspective.

An analysis of ANARCHISM:. Anarchism is a much misunderstood political philosophy and the word anarchy is often misued when applied to criminal and disorderly behaviour as it was when people who incited an outbreak of rioting, looting and vandalism in the UK in August 2011 were branded ararchists.

Further article to be posted over the coming weeks will examine other social and political movements that evolved out of the social upheaval following the Protestant reformation in the seventeeth century.

An Economy that runs on War Booty can be better than a typical Capitalist or Socialist Economy. It will enrich the people of a Society with such an Economy and fulfill their Materialistic Dreams. Such a Society will have to become heavily Militarized to successfully implement this system.

Sunday morning, many children still missing after the gruesome massacre of Utøya Friday. One of Labour Youth League missing county leaders are now confirmed dead.

The pioneer figure of Scientific Socialism.

Thrice handicapped–a woman, a Pole, and a Jew– Rosa Luxemburg was the most eloquent voice of the left wing of German Social Democracy, the defender of Marxist purity against all comers, and a constant advocate of radical action. She spent much of the war in jail, where she wrote and then smuggled out the pamphlet titled "The War and the Workers." The pamphlet became the guiding statement for the International Group, which became the Spartacus League and ultimately the Communist Party of Germany in January 1st of 1919.