Category Archives: Periodical

The essay examines the impact of globalization

Neoliberalism and the European social democracyon the national economic policies in West-Europe and North-America, where these models replaced Keynesiasm and the theoretical basis of socialist-social democratic parties and the North-American progressive parties. The collapse of communism in Central-East-Europe significantly impacted on the social democratic ideology and practice; it accelerated the disintegration of the so called "German model". The end of the social democratic Keynesiasm and the maintenance of the welfare systems that are becoming more and more marked-based, empty the welfare regulations and the regulation of the labour market.

The king is naked

The article gives a profound and witty review of the basis of the economy of the USA: the debt traps, the bubble of the dollar, etc. by comparing the world economy to a pyramid game, which sponsors the American machinery from the voluntary payments of the exploited, the punter, and the bribed comprador bourgeoisie. The author relates the increasing aggression of the USA to the increasing problems in the functioning of this system…

The aesthetics of the empire and the defeat of the left

While Nineteen Eighty-Four seemed to be a historical nightmare in Orwell's age, today we can meet many of the philosophical and linguistic "inventions" of the novel such as the aesthetization and thereby verification of war. The essay examines the historical, geopolitical and structural reasons of why the developed Western core countries returned to the once discredited dichotomy of civilization versus barbarism, and uncritically associated their social and political order with civilization. This new world order is supported by a manager-elite, which is not committed to any ideology, and is always ready to re-define its ethics and world view.

Is there an alternative to world capitalism?

According to the famous leftist author, the "red canon", the most important goal of social movements is to understand that there are alternatives to the present capitalist economic order. There is an increasing resistance in various movement circles and at various levels but no-one believes that a political revolution can alone bring about rapid changes. For the time being, it is early to speak of the synthesis of various alternatives both in theory and practice. The attraction of market economy is palpable everywhere. And still today the neo-liberal model is opposed by two economic directions: neo-Keynesiasm and postcapitalism that are at issue also with each other.