SHARPENING THE PROPAGANDA STRUGGLE BY UNDERSTANDINGHOW THE BRAIN WORKS, AND HOW THE CAPITALISTSTAKE ADVANTAGE OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY.
March 18, 2026 2 Comments
This article is written in anticipation of the large march in London on the 28th March organised by the Left and the Unions in opposition to the growth of the far-right. It seeks to provoke a discussion on how we understand the growth of the far-right and how we challenge it, not through dismissing those who have gravitated to the right, but how that path was prepared for them by the betrayals of the major Political Parties and the media. This article adds an additional element often overlooked, how the ruling class and their propagandists exploit evolutionary advantages to achieve these goals.
A comrade who has a subscription to Claude AI (Google) fed my article into the programme and this is what it came up with. In some ways it is sharper, more focused as well as accentuating the political. Impressive.
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“But how that path was prepared for them by the betrayals of the major political parties and the media.” Exactly. As a recent cause (close in time and space) of the working class’s interest in and vote for the far right, there is what you call the “betrayal” of the main political parties. To be more specific, those parties are all the parliamentary parties: right-wing (Tories, Republicans, Liberals, etc.) and social democrats worldwide. And they have been “betraying” since the 1980s. What about distant, earlier causes? There is the ruling class, of course, the capitalist class today, which has always historically exerted pressure on the political superstructure. More earlier causes? Revolution and its revolutionary economic cycle (REC). Specifically, in the 20th and 21st centuries, the socialist revolution of 1917. That which simply abolished the capitalist class in socialist countries and, in capitalist countries, reduced its pressure on political parties until the early 1980s. It was the fear of revolution, the spatio-temporal propagation of the revolutionary impulse. In that progressive phase of the C.E.R. cycle, all the parties lost any capacity to betray the cause and increased the income of the working class. But the global capitalist class, by virtue of its majority ownership of capital, which had not been abolished in the rest of the non-socialist world, ended up overthrowing real socialism, welfare states, and the increasing real incomes of workers by convincing the parties to betray them. Regarding the brain: It’s certainly a curious analysis. I’ve only read a little, and I’ll share a couple of ideas: the brain doesn’t even know it exists. That knowledge belongs to the person. The person is their PRACTICE and knowledge (words, images, and actions combined). Different practices produce different people. The brain, with its basic functions of recording, storing, and retrieving sensory information, is shaped, like the rest of the body, by external influences—the influence of the social environment and the surroundings. A change, more or less intense, in these external influences alters the brain. A research article from an American university (whose name I can’t recall) a few years ago revealed the depth of influence of external factors, especially economic factors, on the body. Their discovery was that a certain segment of the genes in a population studied in the USA during the brief period of the 1929 stock market crash—a population most affected by the economic collapse—had undergone a complete modification of that part of their genes. In conclusion, external factors, economic factors in fact, are what shape genes (and faster than previously thought). And they shape the rest of the body, including the brain. I’m still working on the book about the C.E.R. (Centers for Reproductive Technology), and I’ll keep you updated. Best regards
Agree with everything political you said. Makes a good addendum to my article. I deliberately toned down the political to emphasize the biological. That’s simply a question of presentation not coverage. I always appreciate your comments and insights. Keep up the good work.