By comparing patterns and structures of Soviet and US car production and consumption the author concludes that the "development of catching-up" in the 1970s and 1980s produced more human life conditions in the Soviet Union than the present ones in Russia despite that driving now has a far more better technical and technological level.

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

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.

Supporters of the so-called green capitalism became recently more active. The main supporters of this ideology are certain multinational companies and organisations and its program aims no less than to match the capital-system based on endless accumulation with a sustainable environment. The base of this optimist (or unreal) approach is the trust in the omnipotence of the advance in technology. Nevertheless, due to the dimension of the ecological problem it is unlikely that diffuse market mechanisms are ablOriginal article Victor Wallis: Beyond Green Capitalism Monthly Review, February 2010.