Romania – The Barricade

Education and false inclusion

Maria Cernat
Education
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Reflections on Romanian education The beginning of this academic year was quite challenging for me. I witnessed conflicts between students and an attitude I was not used to. The level of dissatisfaction and aggression increased...

Socialism with Romanian characteristics

Maria Cernat
Romania
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A short report from a recent event My friend Youri Smouter kept telling me that we have to accept the idea of socialism with Chinese, Romanian... or (I might add) Paraguayan characteristics. Today, March 25,...

Why Democracy doesn’t work on an empty stomach

Maria Cernat
Democracy
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An attempt to explain It is often said that it is literature that provides us with the best explanations of social phenomena in a condensed form. I tried to explain to a militant American pacifist,...

The Romanian left and its events

Florin E. Platon
Analysis & reports
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A sad picture The past week has been filled with landmark events on the Romanian Left. For three days, starting on Thursday, the conference "Capitalist transformations in Romania: unequal development and social gaps" was held...

Privatisation of progressivism – a possible source of endless scandals in the left camp

We're closing soon at the Institute for Social Solidarity. It looked like a project with great potential. A left-wing think-tank. Like so many other projects it ended sadly and with great resentment from some of...

The mystery of unpaid prices – a series with Andrei Mocearov

The Barricade
Energy
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Part I - How we went from natural monopoly to market Energy, and especially energy prices, have been the subject of much debate recently. As not only our lives, but the entire economy is heavily...

Musk was in Romania? Not really

Fact-checking is waking up, drunk, and taking a shot of vodka Ever since the discussion about fact-checking started – it's been a few years now – I've been seriously questioning the viability of this model...

Why are we afraid of revolution?

Vladimir Borţun
Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
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Comments on Albena Azmanova’s book "Capitalism on edge" Could anyone have imagined 10 years ago that a book written by a former anti-communist dissident who openly poses the question of overcoming capitalism would be translated...

Paul Gabriel Sandu – Speech at the launch of the translation of the book “Capitalism on edge..

Paul Gabriel Sandu
Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
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Capitalism on edge – a plea for emancipation. The publication in Romanian of Albena Azmanova's “Capitalism on Edge”, for which we have to thank Maria Cernat and Alexandru Ionașcu, is extremely important for the Romanian...

Enikő Vincze – Speech at the launch of the translation of Albena Azmanova’s “Capitalis..

Enikő Vincze
Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
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Mentally and materially, capitalism creates us in such a way that we cannot imagine overcoming it. If we do imagine it, we cannot overcome it without being pushed towards violent actions against it. Thanks to...