Within Marxism, there is the concept of the ‘contradiction’. A contradiction is a precursor for revolution. They reflect a growing awareness by politically active people that the prevailing economic system does not work and that it needs to be ‘burst asunder’. Bursting a prevailing system
Open Letter to Black Lives Matter - A British Perspective from Blue Revolution. Dear Black Lives Matter, Having read about your organisation from your website it seems that your aim is not just to bring about greater harmony between people of different races by highlighting the disproportionate
In classical Marxist theory surplus (economic) value and the role of the workers who both create it and have it "exploited" from them by capitalists, is central to how both capitalism and socialism work. The process of taking surplus value from workers is akin to theft
Look around the world and you see nations engaging in a kind of verbal warfare. Better of course than actual warfare but pointless and limiting. The problem is or so it seems to us, too many countries fail to understand their shared value base. They,
No of course not. In 21st Century Britain there should be no issue with this. Baroness Warsi would make a great foster mum. She is bright ambitious, well connected and we assume able to square the rights of post industrial westerners with her own possible
More terrorism this week and threats of more transport-related atrocities in the UK. Every politician and pundit have identified the problem of the West's lack of a narrative to counter-terrorism. The confusion over progressive values is that progressive values involve tolerating too readily regressive values
One of Blue Revolutions projects was (is) a TV ideas company called ISMOLOGY. We proposed a show similar to "Eden" some four years ago which took people from the stone age to phone age and in doing so tried to capture the "moral progress" that
We will develop this later but it is about a few simple things; social and economic value and how it is created, controlled and allocated. It not difficult stoopid! The issues of culture, cultural convergence and cultural relativism have to be understood or debated with common
The best description of culture and one which gives an unintended nod to our view that economics underpinning it comes from the Commission on the Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain. We were critical of the Liberal Elite and their stupidity in not really understanding why in
The liberal elite; those custodians of our two party state and binary Parliamentary system have come in for a rough time recently. It's been one disaster after another with the most recent being the inability of most of them to call the recent General Election