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George Walford: In the Aftermath of an Election

December 7, 2012

In the British General Election of June 1987 the Conservative Party, having already held office for two consecutive terms, received 13,763,134 votes, Labour 10,033,633 and the Alliance 7,339,912. Other candidates between them 1,199,573. The turnout was 75.4 percent. This was after repeated experience of labour governments in Britain and after the conservatives had shown themselves to… read more »

George Walford: Work in Progress

July 5, 2012

(The following is part of an attempt to relate the major ideologies to particular stages of social development. It concerns the ancient hunter-gatherer communities; the nature of these is difficult to grasp, both from the lack of direct and indisputable evidence and from their lack of definite structure. This preliminary and tentative draft is presented… read more »

George Walford: The New Janolatry

July 5, 2012

We have just closed down our Research Department, firing the staff, selling the buildings and disposing of all the computers and other equipment. Drastic, certainly, but there was no alternative; only last week did they bring us news of Jane Jacobs’ The Culture of Cities, published by Jonathan Cape in 1970. It has long been… read more »

George Walford: The Democracy of Language

July 15, 2012

Language is one of the marks of humanity. There is no known human society without it, and although languages are constantly changing linguistic studies do not show them to have evolved in the same sense as societies may be said to have done. Societies of simple economic or political structure do not have correspondingly simple… read more »

Wendy S. Duke: A Dumpster Review of Angles on Anarchism

August 11, 2012

reprinted from Dumpster Times. Would it surprise you to know that someone is paying attention to the anarchist movement? George Walford, editor and publisher of ldeological Commentary, an independent quarterly of systematic ideology, has put together a collection of his essays which I thoroughly commend as both thought-provoking and essential anarchist reading. Walford is not… read more »

John Rowan: Why Walsby Can’t Be Researched

August 12, 2012

I was registered for seven years at the London School of Economics to write a PhD thesis on Walsby’s theory. However, in the end I withdrew without having done it. There were many reasons for this, but one was paramount: it can’t be done. The reason is this: the definition of the lowest level of… read more »

John Rowan: Conduct at the Level of the Ideology of Ideologies

August 22, 2012

Principle 1: Just as in systematic ideology the lower levels remain, no matter how high the higher levels develop; just as in psychology the unconscious far outweighs the conscious, not matter how much the conscious develops; just as the lower centres of consciousness are composed of more cells than the higher centres, no matter how… read more »

George Walford: Persistence

August 24, 2012

Ideological development is a many-sided process displaying, as one of its main features, the persistence of the modes of behaviour characteristic of the earlier ideologies. As these are transcended modes come to be disvalued and disavowed, but they do not thereby cease to influence action. The person developing the ideology of domination is likely to… read more »

George Walford: Repression in Ideology

August 24, 2012

In calling attention to the persistence of early modes of behaviour we have to think why this should be particularly necessary in social and ideological connections. The answer lies in the complex nature of the process by which thinking advances. Although the development, the horizontal extension, of any ideology proceeds for the most part steadily,… read more »

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