Coincidentally, White Americans are no longer among the top ten richest ethnic groups in the United States based on average income. As evinced by the Trump movement or the “MAGA” movement and so forth, many White Americans see themselves as being part of a marginalized class which is now getting the short end of the stick from … Continue reading Class Situation
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An Asymmetry of Power
But even in matters of foreign policy and international relations, one cannot escape the issue of class, given that class pertains in large part to the issue of structure, and in the end, we are dealing with structure. As Marx and Engels wrote: “The proletariat and wealth are opposites. As such they form a whole. … Continue reading An Asymmetry of Power
Love and Hate
It follows that we do not stop at conflict when we are pursuing a final analysis of everything, given that in the end, everything is psychoanalytical, and given that everything is psychoanalytical, conflict ends up serving as a mere model for psychoanalysis. We have repression and the self-preservation instinct on one hand, and on the … Continue reading Love and Hate
A Masculine Protest
In essence, what is at the heart of the social world and at the heart of our social reality - namely, the unconscious - is unknown. And it is unknown because what drives the unconscious is an outer-body energy which psychoanalysts have called the “libido.” Repression is “brought to bear upon the libidinal instincts.” Repression … Continue reading A Masculine Protest
Free to Make History
Logic – based on its own basic and fundamental rules – leads us to an extra-rational conclusion and outcome, which is that everyone and everything is influenced and shaped by structure one way or another, and in turn, structure happens to be unconscious. It follows that when we examine structure, there are only minute or … Continue reading Free to Make History
Adam A. Azim 