Archive for April, 2015
Transforming Anzac Day. On Anzac Day 6
• April 23, 2015 • 1 CommentPosted in critical theory, essays, history, social change, social theory
Tags: alternatives to Anzac Day, anti-militarism, anti-war, Anzac Day, Anzac Day as secular religion, Christmas truce 1914, civil disobedience, conscientious objection, fraternisation WW1, pacifism, public mourning, refuseniks, victims of Australia's wars
Truth, Suffering, Values. On Anzac Day 5
• April 22, 2015 • 2 CommentsPosted in critical theory, essays, history, social change, social theory
Tags: Anzac Day myths, Anzac Day propaganda, Anzac Day taboos, Anzac Day values, diggers and empire, Graham Seal, the digger tradition
The Facts on Australia’s Wars. On Anzac Day 4
• April 20, 2015 • Leave a CommentPosted in critical theory, essays, history, social change, social theory
Tags: Anzac Day myths, Australian Imperial Force, critique of Anzac Day, facts about Australia's wars
The Anzac Myth and Collective Narcissism. On Anzac Day 3
• April 19, 2015 • 1 CommentPosted in critical theory, essays, history, social change, social theory
Tags: Anzac Day, Anzac myth, Australian national identity, Australian nationalism, collective narcissism, critique of Anzac Day, Gallipoli, George L. Mosse, heroic over-compensation, national inferiority complex, obedient larrikins, Sir William Deane, Yasukuni Shrine, young settler nations
Infantile Regression. On Anzac Day 2
• April 17, 2015 • 6 CommentsPosted in critical theory, essays, history, social change, social theory
Tags: Adorno, anti-militarism, Anzac Day, collective narcissism, critique of Anzac Day, fascism, fascist potential of Anzac Day, fear of freedom, Fromm, infantile regression and Anzac Day, militarism, Mumford, psychology of fascism, Reich
The Pure Bugle. On Anzac Day 1
• April 16, 2015 • 3 CommentsPosted in critical theory, history, social change, social theory
Tags: Anzac Day, Anzac Day myths, Australian militarism, Australian nationalism, collective narcissism, critique of Anzac Day, Helen Garner, Hyde Park Anzac War Memorial Sydney, national taboos, psychoanalysis of Anzac Day
Fascist Masses in Germany 1933
• April 14, 2015 • 4 CommentsPosted in history, social change, social theory
Tags: authoritarian character, authoritarian socialism, German fascism, German First of May 1933, Germany 1933, socialism, socialist sectarianism, working class defeats, working class fascism
i-catechism
• April 6, 2015 • Leave a CommentPosted in poetry, social change
Tags: anti-capitalist poetry, corporate jargon, poems, poetical irony, poetry, political poetry, satire, satirical poetry, weasel words
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