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George Walford

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 »

PSI Circular Number Two (February 1979)

October 18, 2016

Two copies of this Circular are sent you; please pass one copy on. PAY OF OR ELSE: Future issues of this Circular will be sent to all PSI Supporters. If you are not a Supporter and wish to receive it please send £1 for one year. Otherwise we may send it you or we may… read more »

PSI Circular Number One (January 1979)

September 6, 2016

Coming Attractions PSI Open Meeting: Friday Jan 12 at [address] for 8.00. COLIN FRY, Co-Ordinator of the Environment Information Group, will speak on AN APPROACH TO THE SYSTEMATIC ANALYSIS OF ECOLOGICAL IDEOLOGY. Mensa Think-In: On Thursday 8 February at 8.00 pm George Walford will speak at the National Liberal Club, [address] on THE POWER OF… 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 »

George Walford and Ike Benjamin: The Sad Case of the SPGB

January 12, 2016

THE SOCIALIST PARTY OF GREAT BRITAIN claims to be putting forward a “clear” and “logical” case. Since the founding of the Party, nearly eighty years ago, that case has consistently been rejected by the overwhelming majority of those who have heard it, by the overwhelming majority even of those who have heard it repeatedly. The… read more »

George Orwell Letters to George Walford

May 14, 2015

Prior to writing 1984, George Orwell wrote these letters to George Walford. George Walford (1919 – 1994) was a student of systematic ideology. – Trevor Blake   CAN 3751 27 B Canonbury Square Islington London N1 30.6.45 Dear Mr. Walford, Many thanks for your letter of 26th June, and for the pamphlet “The Intellectual and… read more »

George Walford: The New Magic

October 26, 2014

Few of us have any better grounds for believing in germs than for believing in witches. – Professor Gordon Childe. IN the relationship between science and daily life two distinct and complementary tendencies can be observed. On the one hand the products of science are coming into an increasingly intimate relationship with our everyday activities…. read more »

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