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Emerson on cults and bounded choice

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Some months after leaving the IMT, I bought a collection of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s writings. I’ve flipped through it only a few times, and it has been lying on my bookshelf, pregnant with dormant wisdom, for the last couple of years. For some reason, I never read his most famous essay, ‘Self-Reliance’ (1841), until just … Read more

The BITE Model and the International Marxist Tendency (IMT) as a political cult – Part 2

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The BITE model is an extremely useful way of looking at cults and gauging the severity of cultic practices inflicted upon their members. Steven Hassan created an ‘influence continuum’, with traits belonging to destructive cults at one end, and those belonging to healthy organisations at another. The very worst cults are at the extreme cultic … Read more