The celebration of anniversaries tells a lot more about the present than the past. Because the pendulum of history swang into extremes in Eastern europe more often then elsewhere, the role of symbols has also been greater than in other regions. In the debates on the 100th anniversary of the revolution the relationship between class and nation was a crutial theme.
Category Archives: Former issues
One thousand days of socialist government in Chile
Salvador Allende, President of Chile was murdered twenty five years ago. The agression that was politically supported by the United States stopped a remarkable experiment of socialism and democracy.
The myth of fre trade: The role of GATT and the WTO in the world economy
The liberalization of international trade does not'lead to either the increase of general welfare or a convergence of national economies. On the contrary, there are many ways how liberalization improves the positions of the well-off nation states and accelerates the relative or absolute impoverishment of the poor. In the recent decades, this process took place with the help of GATT and WTO.
The order of rational world rule
The homoneous world order was created by the world markets, though it is very much an ecological phenomenon. The attempts of creating a rational world rule have led to the exhaustion of resources. The globalization of economic life and of ecological crises mounts a new challenge against the current system of political regulation.
Limits of metatheory
The Dialectic of Enlightenment was perhaps the most important critique of the enlightenment by Marxist authors, and also a most remarkable contribution of the Frankfurt School.