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McManus, Matthew. Liberal Socialism Now. Aeon Magazine. February, 2024. A University of Michigan political scientist posts a popular review of his thought and writings which have come to advocate an egalitarian reciprocity of personal and communal welfare. He notes how these polar options which have jostled each other through history are often misunderstood and ill defined. In our hyper-stressed moment it is imperative that an obvious middle way complementarity be considered.

The idea of ‘liberal socialism’ might appear odd and opposite. This would be true for those on the Right and the Left who regard liberalism as market capitalism. We must now make an effort to retrieve its historic theory and make the case for a new salience in the 21st century (see also my forthcoming book The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism). The composite phrase is a political ideology that combines support for many liberal institutions and rights with a socialist desire to establish far more equitable and democratic economic arrangements.

Nevertheless, all liberal socialists are committed to three central principles. First, they value (both) collectivism and normative individualism and believe that the wellbeing and free development of individual persons is a moral priority along with their embeddedness in society. Secondly, liberal socialists are committed to each person having an equal opportunity to lead a good life through the provision of shared resources. Third, they are committed to a basic social structure by participatory democratic policies and principles for family and the economy.

Mulya, Didi Ahmad and Romi Muslim. Phase transition and universality of the majority-rule model on complex networks. arXiv:2402.13434. In a paper to appear in the International Journal of Modern Physics C, National Research and Innovation Agency, Indonesia, and University of Technology, Yogyakarta, Indonesia consider possible ways that bipolar political elections might be based in and attributed to basic statistical physics phenomena.

We investigate the phenomena of order-disorder phase transition and the universality of the majority rule model defined on three complex networks, namely the Barabasi-Albert, Watts-Strogatz, and Erdos-Renyi versions. Assume each agent holds two possible opinions distribute across the nodes. Based on our scaling analysis, it is found that the model undergoes a continuous phase transition, with critical points for independence model greater than the anticonformity model. We obtain critical exponents indicating that they exhibit the same universality class as the mean-field Ising model. (Abstract)

We conducted an analysis of the order-disorder phase transition and the universality class of the majority-rule model implemented on heterogeneous networks, wherein each node maintains connections to at least two other nodes. Each agent has two possible opinions across all network nodes. Each agent adheres to the principle of conformity by behavior aligned with the majority opinion. Notably, agents also exhibit anticonformity and independence proclivities. Within this model, anticonformist agents adopt the minority opinion, adjusting their opinion or state to align with the minority viewpoint, while independent agents act autonomously, unaffected by the influence of other agents. (5)

Scheffer, Marten, et al. A Dynamical Systems View of Psychiatric Disorders and Practical Implications. JAMA Psychiatry. April, 2024. In this dedicated AMA journal, thirteen theorists posted at Wageningen University, University of Amsterdam, University of Melbourne, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Johns Hopkins University describe a beneficial application of the latest complexity science to a wide range of mental maladies. The discussion involves both symptoms and their management course. The endeavor is now possible because a worldwise computational prowess and its daily public discourse has been able to realize a life-like dual reality with a mathematic, informative, programmic source and consequent phenotype phases. A vital aspect of this genotype code-script that its independent, self-familiar, presence is manifestly underlies every such instance. This novel avail is a harbinger of a more effective, natural health care approach, along with ecovillages and all else.

Importance: Dynamical systems theory is widely used to explain tipping points, cycles, and chaos in complex systems from the climate to ecosystems. It has been suggested that the same theory might be used to deal with psychiatric disorders, which come and go as symptoms change. Here we review evidence for the practical applicability of this theory in medical psychiatry. Observations: Emerging results suggest that the time series of mood and behavior do use similar generic nonlinear indicators as employed globally to monitor tropical rainforests and weather patterns. Conclusions: These observations evoke follow-up questions on how best to collect dynamic data, infer informative timescales, construct mechanistic models, and can give patients an active role in their lifelong challenges.

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