Mark A. Foster, Ph.D.
markalanfoster.bsky.social
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.
Intersectionality written entirely in the Bamum script

I hope this works.

𖣣𖨶𖦴𖤢𖦪ꚸ𖧛𖡋𖢧ꛊ꛰𖦛ꛘ𖧥𖧏ꛬ𖦚ꚲ𖢒
December 24, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Deep transformations through degrowth

For any other Bhaskarian critical realists out there, this book is a good read.

drive.google.com/file/d/1Kmsj...
Deep_Transformations.pdf
drive.google.com
December 22, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Two large Creative Commons compilations (and I preserved the indexes)

• transformation: drive.google.com/file/d/1B8ws...
• conscientization: drive.google.com/file/d/19l31...
Creative_Commons_books_and_articles_on_transformation.pdf
drive.google.com
December 22, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Critical humanism

This Creative Commons article develops an approach to Bhaskarian critical humanism, critical humanism, without Bhaskarian moral realism. To me, that is unfortunate, but so be it.

drive.google.com/file/d/12qFb...
A_Critical_Humanist_Intervention.pdf
drive.google.com
December 20, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Here is an archive of my left-Sorokinian Hegelian Marxism (ᒐᔑዛጣ) aka Structural Dialectics (ϛɖ).

It was the previous metatheoretical framework I used to underlie my Marxian theory before embracing Bhaskarian critical realism (ᙖᙍⴽ) and Maoism–Third Worldism (ѪŦШ).

drive.google.com/file/d/159tY...
left-Sorokinian_Hegelian_Marxism.pdf
drive.google.com
December 17, 2025 at 9:39 PM
H̷̷e̷ ̷i̷̷s̷ a̷ ̷m̷a̷̷n̷ ̷w̷̷o̷̷r̷̷t̷̷h̷̷y̷ ̷o̷̷f̷ ̷f̷̷o̷̷r̷̷g̷̷e̷̷t̷̷t̷̷i̷̷n̷̷g̷❢̷

the Traditionalist School of esotericism on great spaces, incommensurable worlds, separate worlds, and a world of narratives (influenced by the nazi Carl Schmitt and here related to radderTrad)

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

tendency.dmr.institute
Unequal_Friendship-and_several_articles.pdf
drive.google.com
December 17, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Arabic for “the Sephardic Jew”

يَهُودِيّ السِفَارْدِيّ, Yahūdiyy ʾal•Sifār°diyy

tendency.dmr.institute
Eudaimonic Eutopia: The Tendency of Dialectical metaRealismᵀᴹ
A Project in Bhaskarian Critical Realism
tendency.dmr.institute
December 14, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Just did “the Sephardic Jew” in Judæo–Spanish/Ladino. Two more:

• Hebrew יְהוּדִי הַסְפָרַדִּי, Yẹhūḏiy hạ•Sẹp̄ārạdiy

• Yiddish, דֵּער סֵפַֿרְדִּישׁעְר יִיד, dēʿr Sēp̄ạrədiyšʿər Yiyḏ

tendency.dmr.institute
Eudaimonic Eutopia: The Tendency of Dialectical metaRealismᵀᴹ
A Project in Bhaskarian Critical Realism
tendency.dmr.institute
December 14, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Sephardic Jew

My latest rendering:

Judæo–Spanish/Ladino, אֶל סֶפַרְדִי גﬞוּדִﬞיאוֹ, ʾẹl Sẹp̄ạrəðiy Ǧūðiyʾô, “the Sephardic Jew”

tendency.dmr.institute
Eudaimonic Eutopia: The Tendency of Dialectical metaRealismᵀᴹ
A Project in Bhaskarian Critical Realism
tendency.dmr.institute
December 14, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Right and Left

the Traditionalist School of esotericism and decoloniality theory jointly critiqued as epistemic ethnonationalism (George Hull) 🧠 💮 ❓ 🎈 🌈 💡 ⚖️ 🗝️ 🔑 🧐 🤔 ✨ 🌠 〽️ 🏉 🔮 📜 🦉 🕵️ 👁️ 👀 💭 📚 🔍 🧿 🌐 ❄️ 💎 🎆

File: drive.google.com/file/d/18rzE...

tendency.dmr.institute
Epistemic_ethnonationalism.pdf
drive.google.com
December 13, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Like Bernie Sanders and AOC, Mamdani is a social democrat, not a democratic socialist. IMO, he should be regarded as such and not be expected to oppose capitalism.

www.laborpolitics.com/p/should-the...
Should the Left Criticize Zohran?
Yes—but critique is easy. What’s our plan for power?
www.laborpolitics.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Valley of True Poverty and Absolute Nothingness (Persian, وَادِیِ فَقْرِ حَقِیقِی وَ فَنَایِ اصْلِی, Vādí•i Faq°r•i Ḥaqíqí va Fanāý•i ʾAṣ°lí; or Tajik, Водӣи Фақри Ҳақиқӣ ва Фаноӣи Аслӣ, Vodī•i Faqr•i Haqiqī va Fanoī•i Aslī):

𝓥𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓮𝔂 𝓸𝓯 𝓫𝓮𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓟𝓸𝓸𝓻 𝓲𝓷 𝓢𝓹𝓲𝓻𝓲𝓽 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓓𝔂𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓽𝓸 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓦𝓸𝓻𝓵𝓭

tendency.dmr.institute
poor_in_spirit.pdf
drive.google.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:21 PM
the Tradder School on eternity

the Traditionalist School of esotericism on sub speciē æternitātis (under the guise of eternity) (Barry McDonald) 🌌 💍 ♾️ 🧿 🕉️ 🪬 💎 ❄️ ➰ 🌀 🪽 🐚 ⏳ 💫 ✨ 🏵️ 🌟 🔱 ⚜️ 🪄 🌠 🔮 🌅 🍂 🛕 🪘 🪷 🌸 📍 🩸 ♻️ 🍃

tendency.dmr.institute
Eudaimonic Eutopia: The Tendency of Dialectical metaRealismᵀᴹ
A Project in Bhaskarian Critical Realism
tendency.dmr.institute
December 11, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Talisman
A decades-old tragedy
open.substack.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:26 AM
I just discovered, after living here for 3½ years, that, outside of South Florida, Hidalgo County, Texas, is the only part of the U.S. which is tropical (Climate Area A).

The rest of Texas is in various subtropical areas. Even Honolulu is in Climate Area B, not A.

drive.google.com/file/d/1HbNH...
Guide_to_Determining_Climate_Zones_by_County.pdf
drive.google.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:53 PM
One of the more common fallacies: “History never repeats itself.” That assertion contradicts: “One should learn from history.” The resolution should be obvious: “History never repeats itself precisely.” Events on the ground are never exactly the same from day to day.

tendency.dmr.institute
Eudaimonic Eutopia: The Tendency of Dialectical metaRealismᵀᴹ
A Project in Bhaskarian Critical Realism
tendency.dmr.institute
December 6, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Latest Substack article: Surmising the Future

www.linkedin.com/pulse/surmis...
Surmising the Future
Perhaps Mark A. Foster Dec 04, 2025 Attempting to predict the future is a fool’s errand.
www.linkedin.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Bystander Effect

Here is a huge collection of one Creative Commons book and over 30 Creative Commons articles on the bystander effect:

drive.google.com/file/d/1Cbmp...
bystander_effect.pdf
drive.google.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Earlier versions of my 𝕬𝖓 𝕬𝖓𝖙𝖎𝖋𝖆 𝕸𝖆𝖓𝖎𝖋𝖊𝖘𝖙𝖔 𝖋𝖔𝖗 𝕽𝖊𝖛𝖔𝖑𝖚𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓𝖆𝖗𝖞 𝕻𝖗𝖆𝖝𝖎𝖘 are all over the web. But the significantly expanded version is available on these platforms:

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

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

drive.google.com/file/d/1bCaq...
An Antifa Manifesto for Revolutionary Praxis
Responding to an Abdicated Maoist-Third Worldist Group Following My Expulsion
markafoster.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Social Idea Movement

the Traditionalist School of esotericism on Social Idea Movement (the radderTradder Giuseppe Umberto “Pino” Rauti) 💡 🌟 ⭐ ✨ 🔔 💫 🪄 🪙 🥘 📜 🧐 🤩 😮 🧑‍🏫 🔥 🥚 🌐 ❄️ ⚽ 💎 🌀 💧 ⚛️ 🌈 💥 🧠 🌸 🌺

tendency.dmr.institute
Eudaimonic Eutopia: The Tendency of Dialectical metaRealismᵀᴹ
A Project in Bhaskarian Critical Realism
tendency.dmr.institute
November 27, 2025 at 9:01 AM
An elaborated version of my Jewish name in Pashto

Mūsaý Hūrūn da Lāwī da Hir°šil zawí (Pashto, مُوسَی هَارُون دَ لَاوِي دَ هِرْشِل زَوِی)

antifa.red
The Antifa Dialectical metaRealist™ Collective ::: Mōšẹh ʾẠhărōn hạ•Lēwiy bẹn Hẹʿrəšẹʿl, founder ::: www.Antifa.red
antifa.red
November 26, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Postcolonialism

Here is my latest article on Substack:

markafoster.substack.com/p/postcoloni...
Postcolonialism
A distinct perspective from decoloniality
markafoster.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:35 PM