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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,...

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...

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...

Ovidiu Țichindeleanu: Who speaks for our region?

Vladimir Mitev
Bulgaria
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Interview with the Romanian philosopher about non-alignment as an option for the East of the European continent, regional internationalism and popular sovereignty. Originally published at Cross-Border Talks. Ovidiu Țichindeleanu is a philosopher and cultural theorist,...

Post-socialist angles of left political strategy

Andris Šuvajevs
Analysis
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The latter half of the past decade saw an unexpected reinvigoration of political projects on the Euro-Atlantic left. Political movements like the Occupy Wall Street in the US and the public against austerity in the...

Crisis of the left

The Barricade
Analysis
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There are very few people on the Left who are ready to accept the fact that the Left movement has been facing a crisis of ideology since the collapse of the Soviet Bloc and Social...

Richard Wolff is on the Barricades!

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Analysis
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Richard Wolff will be remembered as the professor who made economics interesting for the public again! For decades the economy was a simple tool to discipline the poor, the working class, the migrants, and the...

Romania – illusions turning Into nightmares

The Barricade
History
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Maria Cernat was invited by Belgian-based journalist Youri Smouter to appear on his podcast, 1+1, to share with an international audience what Romania was like during communist times and also to talk about the past...