Tag: politics

Why wouldn’t I wish to be moral and urge others to be moral if it’s an antidote to appalling chaotic mess and potential self-destruction.

If power and wealth are not distributed equally, scenarios of unfairness and injustice are created which directly conflict with the nature of morality.

It’s something we all share. It’s tangible, appealing, accessible and always there. It’s both empirical and experiential. Among sentients it’s universal.

You can trust a moral person. And, if you are moral, they can trust you too.

Lots of stuff pretends to be morality but isn’t. Religions, traditions or ideologies are often just ways to reinforce hierarchies of power.

This mess we’re in? Politically? Socially? It’s the near-inevitable result of something pretty sneaky – which keeps blindsiding the idealists, the visionaries, the champions of humanism, the great environmentalists, the…

Over-simplification, in response to complex social and moral issues, is both stupid and dangerous – and we can see the impact of this all across the world.

John Berger showed in his life and work that you be a writer, an artist, an intellectual of international renown and never sell out in the struggle against exploitation and…

Critical Mass wants to hear our readers views on the crisis, the class struggle and what it means for socialist strategy and tactics.

The Labour right-wing, having now gained lasting control of Labour, are losing voters because theirs is essentially a negative offering. Their alleged pragmatism, in our hyped-up age, feels flat, uninspiring,…