Consequences of the Weak Class Struggle and Some Problems of the Left in Romania
Finding the right strategy for the Romanian left is not easy either. Its politics is diluted in policies tending towards liberal-monetarist solutions suggesting a minimal state and no progressive tax. Social democratic economic policies could not have been and cannot be distinguished from explicit right wing economic policies. The author suggests that any reorganisation on the left requires to replacing the fight for improving the system by fight against the system.
Quo Vadis China? – Condition of the Workers in China
The study presents the economic development of China over the past two or three decades, reviewing economic policy and social dilemmas as well. Since the early 1980s, Beijing gave an ever increasing role for market initiatives and achieved immense success in the evolution of productive forces but had to face the specific outcomes of the market oriented development like unemployment and income polarization. State regulation and planning were used to tame these negative effects but it is questionable whether these two different "logics" can live together on the long term.
Taylorism and Socialism: Czechoslovak Car Production (1945-1963)
The author is examining how the Czech car industry tried to mix the Soviet and US models, and what were the chances and limitations of this hybrid solution in Czechoslovakia. This article can be praised, because it goes beyond the mainstream narrative in East-Europe that often unable to separate subjective judgement from scientific examination.
The original article Valentina faca: Taylorismo e Socialismo. Il caso della produzione automobilistica della Škoda (1945-1963) Annali di Storia dell'impresa 15-16, 2004-2005
Ecomarxisms
The Paradox of Wealth: Capitalism and Ecological Destruction
Capitalism and its official ideology – namely neoliberalism that calls itself a science – regard economy and market identical. According to this belief natural resources that are necessary for the existence of mankind are free "inputs" that do not enter into company or even national economy calculations, since they have no costs – at least to a certain point. The article follows the path how basis principles of the bourgeois economy led to the absurd situation of present days when the growing ecolThe original article John Bellamy Foster and Brett Clark: The Paradox of Wealth: Capitalism and Ecological Destruction Monthly Review, November 2009.