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I write about socialism, Marxism, International relations theory etc. Recent books: Historical Dictionary of Socialism, 4th ed (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024); Harold Laski, the Reluctant Marxist (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024).
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As its the anniversary of Marx and Engels' Communist Manifesto, published 21 February 1848, perhaps the following book of mine published in 2015 might be of interest: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/marx-and-...

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Please excuse me commenting from the UK. As I reflect on what is happening in US politics and international relations, I am reminded fn a famous paragraph by Thomas Hobbes. Click this link to his book Leviathan, search for: nasty, brutish, and short. www.gutenberg.org/files/3207/3...

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Yes, fascism uses myths as a means to gain and build support. If science conflicts with their myths, it is science that gives way. Lets remember this on International Day of Women and Girls in Science.

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Great words in a Guardian editorial today. Trump, the editorial suggests, "postures like a monarch because he's too weak to govern as a president." Add Discuss after the quote and I think that would be a brilliant exam question.

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"Yet, after all, the main problem for the President is his relation to that queer, shifting, labyrinthine amalgam we call public opinion" Harold Laski, "The American Presidency: An Interpretation" (London, 1940, p. 264). Perhaps Laski's words will be prophetic. (In 1940, by queer, he meant strange.)

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If governments, businesses etc don't start taking the exponential nature of climate change more seriously, by 2032 the world will have become such a hell hole that Asteroid 2024 YR4 will put us out of our misery.

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