Friday, 29 March , 2024

Bureaucracy

USSR 1989-91: The “democratic counter-revolution” of the nomenklatura

By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos  Third of four articles on Alexandr Buzgalin and his era. The Soviet/Russian tragedy. You can read the first article here https://www.defenddemocracy.press/aleksandr-buzgalin-and-his-time-the-soviet-russian-tragedy/ and...

Geopolitics, war, climate and economy: The need for a global alternative...

By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos* The present still dominant global economic system is a generalized, expanded and globalized form of the one prevailing in western capitalism during...

Xi’s leftward shift to a socialist China is for real

Originally published: Nikkei Asia by Katsuji Nakazawa August 26, 2021 One cannot overstate the shock that has rippled through Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang Province, as...

The Party’s assault on the private sector is roiling China’s billionaire...

By Jane Li Published July 29, 2021 In 2013, Chinese Partners, a movie based on the stories of the three co-founders of China’s largest private education...

Why Socialism? | by Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein is the world-famous physicist. This article was originally published in the first issue of Monthly Review (May 1949). It was subsequently published...

Socialisme et autogestion (Contribution à une esquisse des fondements de la...

Par Michel Paptis L'autogestion est devenue synonyme de la démocratie socialiste, c'est-à-dire du régime qui caractérise la société de transition succédant au capitalisme. On ne...

Chavismo Will Be Socialist Or It Will Cease To Exist

11 May 2018 f there was something Hugo Chavez longed to build in Venezuela, it was a transition to 21st century socialism, writes Marco Teruggi. 'Made...

‘We’ll put Britain’s services in the hands of its workers’

John McDonnell pledges an economic revolution at conference on alternative ownership February 10, 2018 PUBLIC ownership is not just a “political decision” but an “economic necessity,”...

Power, Socialism and Bureaucracy (a classic text)

The opposition will always retain as one of its merits, as against the party, a merit which nothing can remove, the fact that it has, in good time, sounded the alarm on the terrible decline of the spirit of activity of the working classes, and on their increasing indifference towards the destiny of the dictatorship of the proletariat and of the Soviet state.