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2.000 words about soccer. Global capitalism and football – in four headings

The transformation of modern football reflects the hierarchic structure of the world system. The free flow of player-capital resulted in an unequal exchange between the regions of the centre, semi-periphery and periphery, also increasing former imbalances. Subordinating football under the total rule of capital resulted institutional and power concentration and full market rule, where not advertisements serve the interest of football but football serves the business. Capital concentration which is the outcome of draining the football of the third and second world also includes the legalisation of child work and other crimes.

For reinterpreting Master and Margarita – Aristophanes-style festivity

Master and Margarita was written in a period when the terror of Stalin put an end to the "papier-máché rationalism" of the 1920s and when mass arrests, losses of livelihood, hundreds of thousands of people sent to lagers and death sentences created an atmosphere where impossible was very possible and where the world of fantasies, reality and unreality easily merged. The study also presents the philosophy of Bulgakov and the moral stand featuring his works in this historic context. The real evil is "represented" in the book not by trivial trick players and neighbours reporting each other hoping for getting a flat as a reward but by Berlioz who has no ideas; his only goal is to service the power unscrupulously. The existence of Berlioz thus in fact a non-existence – and that could be the judgement of Bulgakov on all power that became an end in itself.

The article is tthe edited version of the chapter on Bulgakov in Арсланов В.Г. : Постмодернизм и русский "третий путь": Tertium datur российской культуры XX века. Культурная революция, 2007г., Серия: AEstetica