To imagine the ideal society is easy, to bring it about is hard. That is as true as it is cruel, and it is a dilemma that revolutionaries have faced from time immemorial. One aspect of that dilemma is the brute fact, neglected as brute facts often are, that one […]
Say there are two lottery urns, one containing 1000 balls each numbered from 1 to 1000, and the other containing 10 balls each also numbered from 1 to 10. We have two individuals, one Alice the other Bob. Alice will reach into one of the lottery urns, out of sight […]
I am thinking of helping to form a small affinity group of ecological socialists. The group could engage in political actions in solidarity with those conducting traditional forms of class struggle, most especially those possessing as their objective the emancipation of the working class, and ecological activism in solidarity with […]
How solid is the case for nuclear fusion? Most of us would say, in principle at least, that it is rock solid. Bloomberg has an article on the Trump administration and funding for nuclear fusion efforts, that is funding associated with the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER). The article quotes […]
The election results in the UK are wonderful. The result is wonderful, above all else, because it gives all of us hope that we can together fashion a better world. I would like to write more about these developments over time, but here is a review of a book on […]
Neoliberalism is not liberal and economic rationality is not rational. These are two of the most important observations we can make of the current era. One can see this especially with reference to the issue of investment and the role that it does, and ought, to play in society. The […]
Bob Hawke has the degrees but Paul Keating has the wisdom. That aspect of Keating, the self-educated working class intellectual from western Sydney, is one I, a fellow Westie, have long had a soft spot for although this does not prevent me adopting a critical disposition toward much of his, […]
On November 8 2016 the Keeling Curve registered a CO2 concentration of about 402 parts per million in the atmosphere. The Keeling Curve measures CO2 concentration alone, so total greenhouse gas concentrations are around 480ppm. On November 8 2016 Donald Trump, a climate change denier, secured 306 electoral college votes […]
We like to use the expression “the nuclear age” to describe that period of history following the detonation of the first nuclear explosive device. The nuclear age is one we continue to experience. I think it is best to view the “nuclear age” in a much broader context, what we […]
I myself after the handing down of a federal budget like to focus on the macroeconomic discussion and projections that appear in the budget papers, of which I will have more to say in the coming days. I like to do this because the macroeconomic discussion and projections can provide […]
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