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The Last Revolution: Postcapitalist Futures…//ED5_5_2_23

The Last Revolution: Postcapitalist Futures

The Last Revolution: Postcapitalist Futures by [John C. Landon]

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Notes moved to new Chapter 0/0 which will have a summary manifesto-style short version of the text.

We began with an intended manifesto which then by extension broke out of its own confines to a complexity that might stall its own realization. The basic point is that the democratic revolutions of the nineteenth century pointed to their own limits and the emergence of attempted completions began even as, for example, the French Revolution was still underway. A figure like Gracchus Babeouf makes the point with clarity A generation of socialists emerged and here Marx and Engels became interlopers who took over the subject and grafted their own theories onto the whole field to the point that even today we often equate socialism with Marxism. At the same time without the work of Marx/Engels the whole field of socialism might have simply died out and the leadership of the two was a heroic saga trying to jumpstart a conception of revolution based on the model of such as given. But the legacy of revolution is not so simple to sort out and the issue really begins in the early modern with the English Civil War and elsewhere in Europe. We might find that starting point earlier still in the Reformation and the Peasant’s Revolt of Munzer. Marx was well aware of the ambiguity of revolution in his delineation of the bourgeois revolution. But the question of a revolution beyond that was a conception with undefined terms….

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The Last Revolution: Postcapitalist Futures…//ED5_5_2_23

The Last Revolution: Postcapitalist Futures

The Last Revolution: Postcapitalist Futures by [John C. Landon]

The_Last_Revolution_Postcapitalist Futures_ ED5_5_2_23

Notes moved to new Chapter 0/0 which will have a summary manifesto-style short version of the text.

We began with an intended manifesto which then by extension broke out of its own confines to a complexity that might stall its own realization. The basic point is that the democratic revolutions of the nineteenth century pointed to their own limits and the emergence of attempted completions began even as, for example, the French Revolution was still underway. A figure like Gracchus Babeouf makes the point with clarity A generation of socialists emerged and here Marx and Engels became interlopers who took over the subject and grafted their own theories onto the whole field to the point that even today we often equate socialism with Marxism. At the same time without the work of Marx/Engels the whole field of socialism might have simply died out and the leadership of the two was a heroic saga trying to jumpstart a conception of revolution based on the model of such as given. But the legacy of revolution is not so simple to sort out and the issue really begins in the early modern with the English Civil War and elsewhere in Europe. We might find that starting point earlier still in the Reformation and the Peasant’s Revolt of Munzer. Marx was well aware of the ambiguity of revolution in his delineation of the bourgeois revolution. But the question of a revolution beyond that was a conception with undefined terms….

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The Last Revolution: Postcapitalist Futures…//ED5_5_2_23

The Last Revolution: Postcapitalist Futures

The Last Revolution: Postcapitalist Futures by [John C. Landon]

The_Last_Revolution_Postcapitalist Futures_ ED5_5_2_23

Notes moved to new Chapter 0/0 which will have a summary manifesto-style short version of the text.

We began with an intended manifesto which then by extension broke out of its own confines to a complexity that might stall its own realization. The basic point is that the democratic revolutions of the nineteenth century pointed to their own limits and the emergence of attempted completions began even as, for example, the French Revolution was still underway. A figure like Gracchus Babeouf makes the point with clarity A generation of socialists emerged and here Marx and Engels became interlopers who took over the subject and grafted their own theories onto the whole field to the point that even today we often equate socialism with Marxism. At the same time without the work of Marx/Engels the whole field of socialism might have simply died out and the leadership of the two was a heroic saga trying to jumpstart a conception of revolution based on the model of such as given. But the legacy of revolution is not so simple to sort out and the issue really begins in the early modern with the English Civil War and elsewhere in Europe. We might find that starting point earlier still in the Reformation and the Peasant’s Revolt of Munzer. Marx was well aware of the ambiguity of revolution in his delineation of the bourgeois revolution. But the question of a revolution beyond that was a conception with undefined terms….

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Notes/Commentary: Descent of Man Revisited and Decoding World History

We will start a set of notes/commentary on the books in the free library.

Descent of Man Revisited


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Natural selection fallacy left untouched…//Racist and sexist depictions of human evolution still permeate science, education and popular culture today

There is something strange in the stubborn confusion over natural selection. But I used to teach statistics and learned to observe the confusion over ‘odds’ that is one part of the fallacious mindset. But the problem runs deeper that.

This is a very popular text, and has been downloaded tens of thousands of times.

The issue of Darwinism is very troubling and controversial but the issue is simple: the statistics of natural selection don’t work, a point obvious to amateurs, but not professional biologists stuck in their conformist paradigm. There is no way around this, and the claims for random evolution are false.

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Decoding World History
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Marx was a classic critic of theories as ideology and then made the same mistake himself. Historical materialism is an ideology of revolution as historical inevitability. But such a theory will backfire and a host of critics exposed it almost at once. A revolution is a recipe for action, not a theory. It is better to proceed empirically and to see if world history shows any smoking guns that might indicate a better approach. The explosion of historical knowledge has sidelined past players here and shows us something surprising and different. Here the eonic model enters, and disciplines attempts at a science of history with the truly awesome pattern of the eonic effect, if you can attempt to deal with the immense data set tackled.

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The eonic model in WHEE is elegant and simple, but it seems in fact very complicated. But that is because the data of world history is too overwhelming.

Decoding World History is a short version of that, and can make the strange dynamic in world history a little clearer.