Friday, 19 April , 2024

Socialism

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...

Socialism And Economic Cybernetics: Towards a Manifesto

Paperback – 14 February 2024 by Elena Veduta (Author) The only alternative to capitalism is socialism. The first attempt to organize a non-capitalist, proportionally...

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...

Ukraine in 2024: Prospects and expectations

By Dmitri Kovalevich Jan 17, 2024* The beginning of the New Year in Ukraine is shrouded in much gloom, with a noticeable accumulation of irritation...

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...

Ken Loach: “The BBC’s role in the destruction of Jeremy Corbyn’s...

By Arthur Neslen 16 December 2022 Ken Loach is one of the most influential filmmakers of his generation. His films have won the Cannes Film Festival’s...

21st Century Capital – Post-Soviet Marxist Reflections

Authors Alexander Buzgalin and Andrei Kolganov in discussion with David Lane, Radhika Desai and David Kotz How would Marx have understood twenty-first-century capitalism? For...

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...

The New Imperialist Structure

by Samir Amin Contemporary capitalism is a capitalism of generalized monopolies. What I mean by that is that monopolies no longer form islands (important as...

Multipolarity: The need for a positive content

By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos (*) I believe the demand for multipolarity is the most fundamental and the most genuinely democratic demand of our times. I am very...