The West, particularly the United States, is crying out for an alternative to the Chinese coronavirus narrative. And now more so than ever, as the outlines of a post-corona bipolar world are coming into sight
The COVID-19 pandemic is far from over, but the battle for “coronavirus narratives” is already in full swing. The front lines are the pages of newspapers and magazines, televisions screens and computer monitors, virtual seats at international organizations and online university lecture halls...
... prophesying in his speech that “even if we awake one morning and hear that the Soviet Union has disappeared, we would not be surprised.”
What happened? What unfolded was the strangest thing: originally the Gorbachev project was a reformed, more open socialism, and remained so even until 1991 when its popularity was confirmed at the nationwide referendum of that year — a result which has been almost forgotten by history. What is inexplicable is that the project for reformed socialism did not establish ...
... Democrats will waste time and effort on infighting is not the only reason. By their activism the far left helps the current president make a caricature of the entire Democratic Party, portraying its candidates as seeking to bring Soviet or China-style socialism to America.
In this context, it should not come as a surprise that Trump has no desire to put out the fire started by the “fab four,” but is seeking to fan the flames with inflammatory tweets and acerbic comments during press appearances....
... such a convergence and integration that there would no longer be inter-imperialist wars. Varga opined that in the post-World War 11 imperialist systems consolidated under US leadership, there could only be wars between the two systems, capitalism and socialism, but not within capitalism. In his last published work, “Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR” (1951), Stalin contradicted this thesis (without however mentioning Varga by name) and pointed out that even in the postwar world, wars ...
... without saying that this legacy has been problematic for left-wing parties trying to regain popular support in the post-Soviet era. Nor was this taint confined to Eastern Europe: globally, many left-wing parties suffered from the misperception that ‘socialism’ had died with Soviet communism. After all, this was the period of the ‘End of History’ which ushered in the belief that (neo-)liberal values were dominant and that ideological challenges to capitalism had ended.
The post-communist ...
