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George Walford: Meet Systematic Ideology

June 28, 2021

George Walford published (and often revised) this introduction to systematic ideology in each issue of Ideological Commentary from January 1985 to August 1994. This revision of August 1993, published June 1994, is his final version. – Trevor Blake Ideological Commentary announces itself as a journal of systematic ideology (s.i.), but it does not claim final… read more »

Lev Chernyi: Review of Beyond Politics and Angles on Anarchism

September 3, 2012

From Anarchy, a Journal of Desire Armed, No. 31. The concept of ideology has fairly recent origins. The word was coined by the French writer A. L. C. Destutt de Tracy in 1796 to name his ‘science of ideas.’ Since that time use of the term has been divided between two general senses, one positive… read more »

George Walford: The Birth of the Gods

September 3, 2012

Studies in systematic ideology tend to centre around politics. There have been forays into wider fields, and Beyond Politics [1] justifies its title by an attempt at tracing the influence of ideology in society at large, but broad areas remain unexplored. Here we take up one feature of the ideology of religion, a subject hardly… read more »

Trevor Blake: Fire Over Europe

August 21, 2014

On 1 October 1942, the Absolute Union of Democracy held a public meeting titled Fire Over Europe. It could be these two undated photographs give a flavor of what Fire Over Europe might have looked like. The Absolute Union of Democracy published books and handbills including Crusade or Suicide!, Unity and Tolerance and Total… read more »

George Walford: Accounting for Marxism

September 5, 2012

In the TLS for 6 September 1985 Anthony Giddens reviews a book, by the late Alvin W. Gouldner, entitled Against Fragmentation; the Origins of Marxism and the Sociology of Intellectuals (OUP 1985). The author was Max Weber, Research Professor of Social Theory at Washington University, St. Louis, and a winner, with an earlier work, of… read more »

Zvi Lamm: Ideologies in a Hierarchal Order

September 6, 2012

The article which follows is reprinted (slightly edited) with permission from Science and Public Policy, February 1984. The author is Zvi Lamm, MA, PhD, of the School of Education, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. – GW Professor Zvi Lamm served in the British Army in Europe (1943 – 46) and with the Israeli Defence Forces (1950… read more »

George Walford: Did Walsby Get This Bit Wrong?

November 10, 2013

I have said and written a good deal about Harold Walsby’s theories and have always set myself as it were on his side, accepting what he said and trying to take it farther. But there is one paper he issued which I am not able to accept; his diagram entitled “Attitude to Paradox,” which appears… read more »

George Walford: Where Do We Go from Here?

August 21, 2014

This is intended to be the first of a series of articles (it will probably not be a regular series) speculating on the future development of systematic ideology, its future development not just as a theory but as a body of opinion, in relation to society at large. The main features of the theory, so… read more »

Universum: Review of The Domain of Ideologies

September 8, 2012

From Universum – Populair Wetenschappeluk Maandblad #3, 20 March 1949 De ideologie (de leer der ideën) is een uit Frankrijk afkomstige richting in de wijsbegeerte (Voltaire, Destutt de Tracy. Cabanis), die zich bezig houdt met de psychologische analyse en de vorming der idee en. Ze verwerpt bet bovenna-tuurlijke, baseert zich op psychologie en anthropologie en… read more »

Index to The Domain of Ideologies by Harold Walsby

September 8, 2012

(Index not found in original, prepared by Trevor Blake) Baldwin, Earl Banks, Sir R. M Brady, Robert A Brogan, Colm Brumwell, J. R. M Cecil, Lord Hugh Chakotin, Serge Chamberlain, William Henry Drennan, James Eddington, Sir Arthur Engles, Friedrich Ferenczi, Sandor Freud, Sigmund Gangulee, Nagendranath Goebbles, Joseph Hegel, Georg Heiden, Konrad Hitler, Adolph Jung, Carl… read more »