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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 »

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 »

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 »

Their “Operation Utopia”

June 10, 2015

Reprinted from The Reading Standard, May 4, 1956 Artist’s Family Trek in Search of New Home Artist, author, sociologist and inventor Mr. Harold Walsby and his wife and three children are about to start trekking across the world by caravan and boat, with Australia as their final destination. Mr. Walsby plans to pay for the… read more »

George Walford: Hegel the Anarchist

August 29, 2014

Harold Walsby (originator of systematic ideology) once spoke of Hegel as the supreme anarchist. At the time I would have said that an anarchist was the one thing Hegel was most emphatically not, but the conversation moved on and I never did ask Walsby what he had meant. For many years the remark has been… read more »

George Walford: What’s Wrong with S.I.? (59)

August 22, 2014

IC56 bore on its cover a stepped pyramid, IC57 a straight-sided one; the change indicates recovery, if not from an error then at least from an imbalance. It also illustrates the importance, when theorising, of striving to formulate assumptions, bringing them out where they can be seen and criticized. The stepped pyramid suggests that each… read more »

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