Goldsmith, Marie: her life and thought
Chomsky and the evolution of language
Mutual aid and the foraging mode of thought: Re-reading Kropotkin on the Khoisan - Alan Barnard
Primitive communism and women's role in its emergence
A Review of Jared Diamond's 'The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?'
On human nature
Arguments I see time and time again against left-wing politics include “human nature will get in the way” or “it ignores human nature”. Recently I’ve even seen this argument trotted out by people on the left, that any future system must “take human nature into account”. It’s fairly clear what is meant here without asking too many questions. Human beings are selfish. Human beings only work in their own self-interest and that this is natural. But I believe this to be wrong. This blog post will hopefully explain why.
'How Noam Chomsky’s World Works', by David Hawkes
Noam Chomsky's political writings are extremely useful for any understanding of the crimes of US imperialism. But his scientific work, whose political implications Chomsky denies, have been coming under increasing criticism from the left.
Recently an academic Marxist author managed to get an interesting critique of Chomsky into The Times Literary Supplement. It raises some interesting concerns.
Engels was Right: Early Human Kinship was Matrilineal
Science reading group: 'Ever Since Darwin'
Noam Chomsky: Politics or Science?
For over fifty years, Noam Chomsky has been exposing the crimes of the United States military across the world. Less well known is the fact that throughout this time, he was working in an electronics laboratory funded primarily by that same military. This article investigates the paradox, arguing that the Pentagon’s institutional support for Chomsky’s scientific work explains the special passion driving his political stance.