Center For Syncretic Studies

Tim Kirby, ideological director at the Center, and Joaquin Flores, director at the Center, debate what the ins and outs of ‘Progressive Imperialism’.  Kirby poses the question to Flores “How are progressives being used for imperialism?” Continue reading →

CSS republishes the following, with the intention of publicizing part of a debate within the decaying corridors of academia, between Abromeit – co-editor of the text ‘Heideggerian Marxism’ &

ew Resistance Brazil, or locally known as Nova Resistência (NR), held their first historic congress over the Easter weekend, April 19-21.

By Flavio Barbiero – retired admiral in the Italian Navy who last served with NATO.

By Paul Antonopoulos – CSS Project Director;  MENA and Latin America Research Fellow   The End of the Brazilian Left?

By: Tim Kirby The Fourth Position and “Father’s Will” Part I and Episode I – &

 By: Jafe Arnold Marx and the Indo-European Mode of Production f the three main socio-political ideologies of modernity – Liberalism, Marxism, and Fascism (and their offshoots) – Marxism is arguably the most complex, scientific, and paradoxical.

 By: John Stachelski  A Review of Caleb Maupin’s Getting Rich Without Capitalism Caleb Maupin’s provocatively titled Getting Rich Without Capitalism: America’s Way Out (2018) is a collection of essays which cover a range burning political questions in geopolitics, economics, and cultural theory.

 By: Jafe Arnold From the Indo-Europeans to the ‘New World’ he world’s diversity of cultures has successfully defied the “globalization” of the Atlanticist, Liberal, unipolar “End of History” scenario proclaimed in the 1990’s.

A Sober View on the US-YPG Affair  By: Paul Antonopoulos – CSS research fellow  The following is a sample preview of a much larger article that will appear in the first issue of the Journal for Syncretic Studies (JSS).

An Interview with Czech Communist Ideologist Josef Skala   By: Dr.

    By: Padraig McGrath Introduction: To understand why ‘scientism’, (the contemporary vulgarization of ‘the&a

   By: Andrew Korybko     he Center for Syncretic Studies is pleased to present another original academic piece, in full, from our Russian collaborator, Mr. Andrew Korybko.

By: Jafe Arnold – CSS liaison to Poland CSS participates in conference: “History and Perspectives of Cooperation between Slavic Countries” n December 10th in Wroclaw, Poland, the Association for Poland-East Cooperation hosted an in

By: Padraig McGrath The Synthetic Public Ideology of Putin’s Russia The reconstruction of the Cathedral of Saint Alexander Nevsky is a microcosm of a broad social reality   ituated adjacent to the Crimean Parliament building in Simferopol, the newly rebuilt Cathedral …

An Interview with Czech Communist Ideologist Josef Skala – Part 2  By: Alexander Gegalchiy – translated by Jafe Arnold Based out of Prague, Czech Republic, Alexander Gegalchiy is President of the International Russian Award Foundation, an organization dedicated to supporting and …

A Review of Gubarev’s book on the Donbass Revolution and Orthodox-Communist Syncretism By: Jacek C. Kaminski – translated by Jafe Arnold Jacek C. Kaminski is a Polish journalist and leftist activist.

By: Gustavo Aguiar  Translated by: Jafe Arnold  Pacifism for Whom?

By: Jafe Arnold The “Polish Question” at a Crossroads ver the past several months, the geopolitical role of Poland in relation to the war in Ukraine and Eurasian and European integration projects has once again become an increasingly frequently visited topic.

  By:  Andrés Barrera González, edited by Joaquin Flores – PhD in Political Science and Sociology, Profesor Titular at the University Complutense of Madrid.

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 by : Joaquin Flores   Electric Yerevan & Lessons on the Color-Spring Tactic   he Electric Yerevan protest provides us with an excellent opportunity to review some of the basic underlying mechanics and psychology of the Color-Spring tactic

 By: Andrew Korybko The Effectiveness of Soviet Interwar Foreign Policy oviet foreign policy before the Cold War has contradictorily been described as either being pragmatic and realistic or ineffective and idealistic. The true nature of interwar Soviet foreign policy lies somewhere in between both extreme designations. Although the Soviet Union did bungle some foreign policy […]

 By: Angel Millar   Spirituality, Marxism, and the Future of Religion   In one of the more surprising remarks of the year so far, “as far as social-economic theory is concerned,”said the Dalai Lama in January, “I am still a Marxist.” Religion, spirituality, and socialism and capitalism have, perhaps, crisscrossed for well over a century [&