New Blog Series

Man & Reality - now available on the Shape Journal

The Man & Reality blog series is now available in full, in a new issue (40) of Shape Journal. Click the cover above to read the PDF. Our new policy of serialising older unpublished work seems to be working, as it provides a good introduction to the broad philosophical stance of this theorist, without the necessary layers of added complexity present in later works.

While Man & Reality offered a robust philosophical criticism of Mathematics from a Marxist standpoint, so our new series does the same for Science.

What is to be Done?

Developing Marxism Today; Introduction

Our new 12 part series was written as a single, 15.000-word paper back in 2008, and preceded literally all the later significant theoretical developments by this Marxist theorist.

Nevertheless, it was, and still is, an attempt to deliver a comprehensive approach, by a modern-day Marxist, to the significant problems that were then considered to be still outstanding in both Philosophy and Science.

The credentials of this writer, that you may consider are appropriate to the task are that I am a professional scientist, in fact, a retired Professor from London University, and a lifelong, active revolutionary socialist. So, the subject will be treated professionally, and its validity will be proved by the analytical power revealed by its wholly new contributions.

It will not be an historical narrative, but a current, urgent development of Marxist Theory!

The paper was always an important attempt, in spite of its evident omissions, because, nevertheless, its completion went a long way to defining, "What is to be Done!" But, of course, it will only be by the subsequent successes of the new approach that it will, and should, be judged.

For the author's Theory of Emergences was only formulated two years after the completion of this paper. And the scientifically significant Theory of the Double Slit Experiments in Sub Atomic Physics was also only begun during the writing of this paper, and finally formulated the following year.

So, why not just deliver those completed theories?

Well, they certainly require some sort of grounding, without which they will not inform and empower the reader. This chosen paper is being serialised here, because of what it does achieve in establishing the necessary agenda and ground. The intention was not to merely add the current “Works of the Masters”, but to encourage potential Marxists to actually join the fray. For the task, being applied to a living, changing World, is clearly never ending!

The contents of the new series are as follows. The aim is to publish one a week for the next 12 weeks.

What is to be Done

CONTENTS

Introduction

I. Epiphany, Activism, Election and Expulsion

II. Political Stance, Campaigns and Theory

III. Philosophy, Researches & Zeno

IV. Inter-disciplinary Studies, Dichotomies & Eye-Brain Interpretations

V. Technology, Science’s Source & Method, Plurality and Holism

VI. Hegel, Contradiction and Abstraction

VII. Explanation-or-Use, The Crisis in Physics, Reality Evolves

VIII. Revolutionary Change, Marx & Hegelian Dialectics

IX. Outstanding Tasks, The Holist Stance

X. Emergences, Breaking from Old Ideas, Tackling the Problems

XI. Universally Applicable Theory, Science, Explanation above all

XII. The Fight Back, a Physical Ground

Part I will be published here on Monday. This body of work is AVAILABLE NOW as a Special Issue. Read it all here!