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The Rise of the Far Right and the Age of Great...
By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos
Why Trump had and still has, to some extent, the need to present himself as an "antisystemic" friend of peace and even...
The Ecological Rift in the Anthropocene
by John Bellamy Foster, Fabio Querido, Maria Orlanda Pinassi and Michael Löwy
Sep 1, 2024
Fabio Querido, Maria Orlanda Pinassi, and Michael Löwy: To start, tell...
Majority of East Germans say life was better under communism
Glorification of the German Democratic Republic is on the rise two decades after the Berlin Wall fell. Young people and the better off are...
The future of China, the danger of a collapse of human...
By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos (*)
Shortly before his death, in a series of writings, Samir Amin unfolded the two issues that were mainly of concern to...
Karl Polanyi’s failed revolution The liberal world order is collapsing once...
By Thomas Fazi
April 27, 2024
Few 20th-century thinkers have had such a lasting and profound influence as Karl Polanyi. “Some books refuse to go away...
Saul Bellow – Literature and Racism Or At War with the...
“What they wouldn’t do, the white folks, to keep you from having a history, the better, after all, to protect theirs.”
The Man Who Cried...
Samir Amin’s last two battles
By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos
Shortly before his death, in a series of writings, Samir Amin unfolded the two issues that mainly concerned him. The first was...
Marxism, nation and nationalism, Western and Russian Left
by Dimitris Konstantakopoulos
This is the fourth of four articles on Alexandr Buzgalin and his era, the Soviet/Russian tragedy. You can read the three preceding...
An October for Us, for Russia and for the Whole World...
Published at November 6, 2007
IT IS NO surprise that the imminent 90th anniversary of the October Revolution in Russia has become the object...
Do we need Marxism? Marxism and Stalinism
By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos
In my previous article on Alexandr Buzgalin and his time, the Perestroika turned Katastroika (https://www.defenddemocracy.press/aleksandr-buzgalin-and-his-time-the-soviet-russian-tragedy/) I put the question if Marxism is...