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Risk and Extortion VI: Cheap morality and the joys of MABRA
Motivated by wealth, power and appeal, the capitalist-imperialist-patriarchal Establishment is primarily engaged with controlling the modes of extraction and abstraction; that is with ensuring privileged access to resources such as… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion V: Modes of Abstraction – Monism and Dialectics
Now it is compelling to enter into a metaphysical debate about monism and dialectics, but it may not be necessary as the very idea of dialectics stems from a monistic… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion IV: Epistemic shifts of Extraction and Abstraction
As I have argued before, critical history, in particular of the kind that embraces dialectical historical materialism, is considered dangerous to the establishment because it usually intervenes with its ability… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion III: What do powerful men want?
Avoiding the fallacy of misplaced concreteness is important, but so is avoiding the fallacy of misplaced abstraction. The fallacy of misplaced abstraction suggests that there is no material link between… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion II: The Establishment and the Estate
It is impossible to engage with critical historical analysis without a materialist framework. That is, it is pointless to talk about the virtuality of risk, for example in the light… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion I: The Risk Society of the New World Order
Why the future is bleak …. Since the re-election of Donald Trump as president of the United States of America, European governments – perhaps with the exception of Hungary –… Read more.
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Introduction
This may turn out to be just another blog filled with resentment and ressentiment, that serves as a feeble attempt to find an outlet for the anger and frustration that… Read more.






