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Mark A. Foster, Ph.D.

@markalanfoster.bsky.social

I am a retired sociology professor 🙵 continue my work through my Institute for Dialectical metaRealism (https://dmr.institute). With a Ph.D.in sociology 🙵 history, I focus on religious studies (sociology of religion 🙵 history of religions) 🙵 social theory.

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ALL HELL Break Loose as Trump LOSES ALL CONTROL on STREETS
YouTube video by MeidasTouch ALL HELL Break Loose as Trump LOSES ALL CONTROL on STREETS

Just a sideshow to the circus of the end of the capitalist world-system

www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKEa...

12.11.2025 00:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
IRAN MOVES IN — U.S. Forces Brace for Retaliation. | Prof. John Mearsheimer
YouTube video by Yemek Zamanim IRAN MOVES IN — U.S. Forces Brace for Retaliation. | Prof. John Mearsheimer

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgAk...

11.11.2025 14:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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An Antifa Manifesto for Revolutionary Praxis Responding to an Abdicated Maoist-Third Worldist Group Following My Expulsion

The final version of the Manifesto for now

markafoster.substack.com/p/an-antifa-...

10.11.2025 23:19 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Eudaimonic Eutopia: The Tendency of Dialectical metaRealismᵀᴹ A Project in Bhaskarian Critical Realism

Trees of Awakening

I hope I formulated the correct Pali translation of the Sanskrit, बोधिवृक्षाः, Bōdhivr̥kṣāḥ:

बोधिरुक्खा, Bodhirukkhā

tendency.dmr.institute

10.11.2025 13:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My far Left protest of the day

die neo–völkisch Bewegungen (the neo-folkish movement) in Yiddish: diy nʿēʾo–p̄ʾoləqiyš bʾẹv̇ēʾgūnəgʿən (דִּי נעֵאָ־פֿאָלְקִישׁ באֶווֵעגּוּנְגּעְן)

Pronounced by me: www.markfoster.net/name/the_neo...

antifa.red

10.11.2025 13:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Copresence and Demireality A personal experience

open.substack.com/pub/markafos...

08.11.2025 06:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
intentionality-Franz_Brentano.pdf

Intentionality

I just completed this compilation of Creative Commons books and articles on the pre-Husserlian phenomenology of Franz Brantano:

drive.google.com/file/d/15Ar3...

07.11.2025 17:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Autistic_supernatural_experiences.pdf

Theory of mind

On November 11ᵗʰ, 2025, I believe ʾal•Ḥūriyyaẗ led me, through a dream, to published research on Autistic susceptibility to spiritual experiences. The beloved Lady seemingly used my Autism to give me theory of mind.

File: drive.google.com/file/d/1jBnI...

tendency.dmr.institute

07.11.2025 14:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Sympathetic_Sentiments-Affect_Emotion_and_Spectacle_in_the_Modern_World.pdf

Cultural studies

This series contains two Creative Commons books by John Jervis.

Sympathetic Sentiments: Affect, Emotion and Spectacle in the Modern World:
drive.google.com/file/d/1qZWB...

Sensational Subjects: The Dramatization of Experience in the Modern World:
drive.google.com/file/d/1i5Rf...

07.11.2025 13:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
spiritual_naturalism-or-naturalistic_spirituality.pdf

Spiritual naturalism or naturalistic spirituality

I just put together this compilation of Creative Commons and public domain (long expired copyright) books and articles on this subject. Note that I have included two editions of the book, En Route.

drive.google.com/file/d/1mQWT...

07.11.2025 05:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Mark A. Foster's Marxist Chronology From Hegelian Marxism to Bhaskarian critical realism

Mark A. Foster's Marxist Chronology: From Hegelian Marxism to Bhaskarian critical realism

open.substack.com/pub/markafos...

06.11.2025 16:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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An Antifa Manifesto for Revolutionary Praxis Responding to an Abdicated Maoist-Third Worldist Group Following My Expulsion

Now on Substack

𝕬𝖓 𝕬𝖓𝖙𝖎𝖋𝖆 𝕸𝖆𝖓𝖎𝖋𝖊𝖘𝖙𝖔 𝖋𝖔𝖗 𝕽𝖊𝖛𝖔𝖑𝖚𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓𝖆𝖗𝖞 𝕻𝖗𝖆𝖝𝖎𝖘𑊩
𝕽𝖊𝖘𝖕𝖔𝖓𝖉𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖙𝖔 𝖆𝖓 𝕬𝖇𝖉𝖎𝖈𝖆𝖙𝖊𝖉 𝕸𝖆𝖔𝖎𝖘𝖙֊𝕿𝖍𝖎𝖗𝖉 𝖂𝖔𝖗𝖑𝖉𝖎𝖘𝖙 𝕲𝖗𝖔𝖚𝖕 𝕱𝖔𝖑𝖑𝖔𝖜𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝕸𝖞 𝕰𝖝𝖕𝖚𝖑𝖘𝖎𝖔𝖓

open.substack.com/pub/markafos...

06.11.2025 09:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Dialectical metaRealism (ƉɱⱤ) A Summary of the Pentad

My Substack article on Dialectical metaRealism (ƉɱⱤ)

open.substack.com/pub/markafos...

06.11.2025 09:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Class My Model of Social Stratification

Class: My Model of Social Stratification on Substack:

open.substack.com/pub/markafos...

05.11.2025 23:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
demarchy_sortition_lottocracy.pdf

Demarchy, Sortition, or Lottocracy

I do not favor this system of governance (which goes by all three names), but reading about it is interesting. Here is the file:

drive.google.com/file/d/1p_aH...

03.11.2025 06:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
theocracy.pdf

Theocracy

I am a sociologist of religion and historian of religions, not a theocrat. But I just completed a compilation of Creative Commons articles and one Creative Commons book on theocracy. Enjoy.

drive.google.com/file/d/1hx3A...

02.11.2025 20:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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An Antifa Manifesto for Revolutionary Praxis 𝕽𝖊𝖘𝖕𝖔𝖓𝖉𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖙𝖔 𝖆𝖓 𝕬𝖕𝖔𝖘𝖙𝖆𝖙𝖎𝖟𝖊𝖉 𝕸𝖆𝖔𝖎𝖘𝖙֊𝕿𝖍𝖎𝖗𝖉 𝖂𝖔𝖗𝖑𝖉𝖎𝖘𝖙 𝕲𝖗𝖔𝖚𝖕 𝕱𝖔𝖑𝖑𝖔𝖜𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝕸𝖞 𝕰𝖝𝖕𝖚𝖑𝖘𝖎𝖔𝖓 Mark A. Foster, Bhaskarian critical realist, Maoist֊Third Worldist/Bundist, intersectional Marxist/kyriarchist, Antifa, ...

My article on expulsion from a Maoist-Third Worldist group, for refusing to participate in an insurrection, is now published on LinkedIn:

www.linkedin.com/pulse/antifa...

01.11.2025 16:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Understanding_Atrocities.pdf

Understanding Atrocities: Remembering, Representing, and Teaching Genocide

This Creative Commons book is now especially relevant.

drive.google.com/file/d/1SFRz...

01.11.2025 10:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
critical_figurational_sociology.pdf

A new addition to my current book

• critical figurational sociology: drive.google.com/file/d/1NiOQ...

tendency.dmr.institute

01.11.2025 02:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A Petty matter

My new abbreviation for post–civilization–mutual aid–Maoism–Third Worldism:

Ꝓⵞ𐒄𐌀ⱮՇЩ

31.10.2025 09:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Carl_Schmitt.pdf

Carl Schmitt

As a Maoist-Third Worldist, and a guy born into a nonpracticing Jewish family, I am certainly not a fan, but I am also an academic scholar. Here is a collection of Creative Commons article and one Creative Commons book on the man and his ideas:

drive.google.com/file/d/1Cmaw...

31.10.2025 07:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
My_response_to_a_Maoist-Third_Worldist_Group.pdf

Another addendum to the Manifesto

On the Wire platform, the fascist advocated killing members of certain new religious movements and giving their children to others.

drive.google.com/file/d/1bCaq...

30.10.2025 13:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
My_response_to_a_Maoist-Third_Worldist_Group.pdf

Fascistization: An addition to the Manifesto

Fascistization must be avoided at all costs by Maoist–Third Worldists. We are needed. Unfortunately, it is all too easy to be compromised by fascists. This former Maoist–Third Worldist group failed that test.

drive.google.com/file/d/1bCaq...

29.10.2025 08:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
The_Rise_and_Fall_of_the_Peoples_Parties.pdf

The Rise and Fall of the People’s Parties

A fascinating Creative Commons book:

drive.google.com/file/d/1TFds...

29.10.2025 07:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It stems from the Confucian ethic.

29.10.2025 02:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
The_Great_Initiates-volumes_I_and_II-and-Jesus-The_Last_Great_Initiate.pdf

More on alleged initiations

the Traditionalist School of esotericism on the great initiates (Édouard Schuré, an important predecessor) 💥 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🔮 ⚡️ 🔥 ✨ 💡 🌟 ⭐ 🎆 🪄 ⚜️ 🗝️ 🔑 🔒 🔓 🔐 🤫 🧐 🌬️ 💎 🛡️ 🧊 ❄️ 🌐 🌀 ⚽ 🪬 👗 🧢 ☸️ 🔜

Large file: drive.google.com/file/d/1SGOe...

tendency.dmr.institute

29.10.2025 02:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Aristotle_and_the_Ontology_of_St_Bonaventure.pdf

Aristotle and the Ontology of St. Bonaventure

A Creative Commons book:

drive.google.com/file/d/1cfKe...

28.10.2025 07:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Download - Altap Salamander File Manager

A new discovery

X-Tree Gold is now ancient history in PC world. However, for those who remember it, Salamander, a clone of sorts, is freeware:

www.altap.cz/salamander/d...

27.10.2025 06:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
embodiment.pdf

Embodiment

Here is a collection of Creative Commons books, along with some Creative Commons articles, on embodiment. I just completed the compilation. Enjoy.

drive.google.com/file/d/1PpHl...

24.10.2025 04:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
My_response_to_a_Maoist-Third_Worldist_Group.pdf

Addition to the Manifesto

Suspiciously❟ the individual I have called “the fascist” (to avoid using his name), is the one who proposed the insurrection. Only I objected. I am, to be honest, seriously concerned for the well-being of persons remaining in the group.

drive.google.com/file/d/1bCaq...

23.10.2025 23:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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