Tag Archives: marxism

Interview with Craig Willy (Letters from Europe)

Posted on May 16, 2011 by AK

After a year long hiatus from interviewing Russia watchers, I decided it was time to get back in the game. As it happens, my attention first fell on a Europe blogger – and not just any incisive, counter-intuitive scribbler whose intellect and … Continue reading →

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National Comparisons: Politics & Media

Posted on April 13, 2011 by AK

In the fourth part of my series comparing Russia, Britain, and the US, I turn my attention to aspects of their politics, including: markets and freedom; media independence; the role of “dissident” voices, billionaires, and corruption; and Internet culture. Some … Continue reading →

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Reconciling Stalin with Victory

Posted on May 9, 2010 by AK

За нас за вас и за десант и за спецназ! I would like to start off by expressing my deepest respects to the Red Army veterans who fought and died so that (literally) hundreds of millions of their Slavic brethren … Continue reading →

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What I Believe: 2 Year Update

Posted on January 26, 2010 by AK

I’ve remembered about the article What We Believe I wrote two years back, in the early days when I was still writing anonymously (as “stalker”) and was pretending to be a team. Had fun rereading it, almost like a time … Continue reading →

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Green Communism

Posted on January 4, 2010 by AK

Thesis. The current capitalist-industrial System is incapable of surmounting the limits to growth on planet Earth because markets and technology, today’s salvation gospel, are no deus ex machina to the energy-and-pollution predicament of industrial civilization. Nor is this System in principle … Continue reading →

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Zizek’s Metapolitics

Posted on December 3, 2009 by AK

Slavoj Žižek is one of today’s most brilliant philosophers. There’s no disputing that he sounds rambling and incoherent, but far from being off-putting, it forces one to consider (decipher?) his words all the more carefully. Indeed, the material and ideas … Continue reading →

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The Struggle between Europe and Mankind

Posted on September 8, 2009 by AK

Though Nikolai Trubetzkoy (1890-1938) remains more famous for his contributions to the field of linguistics, his other great achievement was as one of the founding fathers of the Eurasian movement. Riding on the dark wave of disillusionment sweeping the world in … Continue reading →

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Was the French Revolution primarily a Class Struggle?

Posted on April 4, 2009 by AK

This is an old essay I wrote on interpreting the French Revolution (pdf). I copied it here from my sole paper copy – unfortunately I’ve lost the references. The basic argument is that far from consolidating the historical victory of … Continue reading →

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