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Alice Noel: From Village to Empire / 4X Games and Systematic Ideology

June 26, 2021

Winner, 2021 George Walford International Essay Prize. Introduction ‘When we consider humanity in its context we see the concrete outcome of evolution to be the whole system of being, from inorganic matter to sophisticated society, and this can usefully be envisaged as a stepped pyramid, with each level resting upon the one below and each… read more »

Michael Rayner: Systematic Ideology in India

July 28, 2020

Winner, 2019 George Walford International Essay Prize. Introduction The theory of Systematic Ideology was formed by Harold Walsby in the 1940s, and since then has been used to enrich the understanding of political, scientific and religious movements, both current and historical. However, there has been a tendency to base these studies on Western movements. Indeed,… read more »

Frazer Heritage: Using the 5 Categories Which Compose Political Ideology in Tandem with Close Linguistic Analysis

March 18, 2019

Winner, 2018 George Walford International Essay Prize. Using the 5 Categories Which Compose Political Ideology in Tandem with Close Linguistic Analysis: Creating a Evidenced-Based Linguistic Framework For Exploring Political Stance Systematic Ideology (SI) is a study of ideologies, as founded in the 1930s by Harold Walsby and George Walford. The goal of SI is the… read more »

Joshua Feldman: Reconceptualising (systematic) Ideology in the Wake of Political Psychology

July 9, 2016

Joshua Feldman: Reconceptualising (systematic) ideology in the wake of political psychology: Positivism, classical conditioning and the Tree of Knowledge (ToK) System Winner, 2016 George Walford International Essay Prize. For man’s intellect, though it has mastered a great deal of the universe which is its environment, has not mastered itself… Hence the need for systematised knowledge… read more »

Linda Sloane: Systematic Ideology and Identity / The Triangle of Society, Ideology and the Individual

August 7, 2015

Winner, 2015 George Walford International Essay Prize. INTRODUCTION The first time I heard about Systematic Ideology, I could make sense off the term ideology yet the term systematic was not clear to me at all. The systematic in Systematic Ideology, however, is the most crucial part about the theory and the one differentiating it from… read more »

Robert M. D. Minto: Systematic Ideology and Science Fiction

July 28, 2014

Winner, 2014 George Walford International Essay Prize. 1. Introduction “Perhaps,” begins an essay by George Walford, “we should pay more attention to science fiction.” [1] He proceeds to analyze the novel Soldier, Ask Not by Phillip K. Dick. In Dick’s novel, the evolution of the human race causes it to split onto different planets, the… read more »

Mary Cole: The Systematic Supernatural / Systematic Ideology as a Framework for the Origin, Function, and Alteration of Religion

August 4, 2013

Winner, 2013 George Walford International Essay Prize. In an evolutionary context, a belief in the supernatural is costly. Evolutionary cost refers to anything that reduces an individual’s eventual reproductive success from what that individual would otherwise achieve. Such cost includes unnecessary practices that either neglect or consume resources that otherwise could be used provision oneself… read more »

Socialist Party of Great Britain: Our Object and Declaration of Principles

June 15, 2013

Reprinted from here with the kind permission of the Socialist Party of Great Britain under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs copyright license. The Socialist Party of Great Britain Object The establishment of a system of society based upon the common ownership and democratic control of the means and instruments for producing and distributing wealth by and… read more »

Katharine Frederick: Theory of Systematic Ideology and Its Interaction with Social Media in Historical Perspective

August 4, 2013

Winner, 2012 George Walford International Essay Prize. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 INTRODUCTION 2 A BRIEF SURVEY OF THE THEORY OF SYSTEMIC IDEOLOGY 2.1 Assumption, Identification, and Behavior 2.2 Inverse Characteristics of the Major Ideologies 2.3 A Brief Description of the Walsbeian Ideology Levels 2.3.1 Protostatic Ideology or “Expediency” 2.3.2 Epistatic Ideology or “Principle” 2.3.3 Parastatic… read more »

Socialist Party of Great Britain: Getting Splinters

June 15, 2013

Reprinted from here with the kind permission of the Socialist Party of Great Britain under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs copyright license. The group that formed around Harold Walsby and his ideas probably represents the most unusual breakaway from the Socialist Party in its entire history. During the Second World War this group developed a fascination… read more »