Reflecting on a Palestinian diaspora
Autoare: Macrina Moldovan Al-Nakba is widely known in the Palestinian collective memory as the catastrophe […]
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Regândirea secularismului
Autoare: Miruna Harabagiu În consens cu abordarea Monikai Wohlrab-Sahr (2012) și eu îmi propun să […]
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Author: Marina Mironica [1] The problem of integrating feminism and Marxism became one of the […]
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Autor: Tobias Pasăre Ideea de dezvoltare a apărut în mijlocul crizei capitalismului industrial timpuriu din […]
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Author: Hestia Delibas The socio-economic relations of today’s world might seem universal. The mode of […]
Citește mai departe →Denunciations as Civic Acts: The Romanian Middle Class and its Battles for Justice
Author: Manuel Mireanu
In February 2017 thousands of people in Romania joined a national wide protest against corruption. This protest was dubbed “Rezist” and it was mainly aimed at the corrupt political class, and specifically at the Social Democrat Party. People were demanding the upholding of the rule of law, and an end to corruption practices and large scale theft. In Timişoara, one of the major Romanian cities, one young man was enthusiastically organizing the local protests, speaking out against local thieves and their alleged connections to the “big thieves” in the Parliament.
Citește mai departe →Virtual trespassing
Author: Andreea Ferenț
Illich’s lecture starts by revealing his pessimism on the subject of the future of humanity, a future that starts degrading along with the intrusion of the new technologies. The new devices are starting to take control over the individual’s exterior by polluting his environment. They are also poisonous for its intrinsic attributes by making him ‘indolent, impotent, narcissistic and apolitical’ and by sucking all of his self-control the individual will now need to be handled.
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Author: Maria Martelli
A commentary on „Green Capitalism, and the Cultural Poverty of Constructing Nature as a Service Provider” by Sian Sullivan
Capitalism has this marvelous super-power, a kind of chameleonic colour change that goes, at times, so far as shape-shifting. It marches forward into the future, based on a belief in perpetual growth, adapting itself to the times: if it can work on harsh exploitation of children, it does; as long as slavery works for it, it keeps it; but can it capitalize on the feminist movement? Then, let’s have it. Every dream and talk of a better world is co-opted by this fascinating giant that resides in ideology, people, the infrastructure of places, things and even families. The green movement is no different.
Citește mai departe →Marx position on Russia and the dualism of the agrarian community
Author: Lion Wedel
Relation of the “capital” to development of the Russian peasant community’s
It is a premise that the analysis of the genesis of capital in Capital is dedicated to the Western European countries. That means that the history stages described for the western hemisphere by Marx are not destined to Russia or any other cultural region across the globe except Western European (see Marx, 1881: p.2).
We can conclude that there is no evidence of Marx’s position on the destruction of the commons related to Russia in Capital. Without a specific analysis of the Russian Mir we’re not able to speak about a historical inevitability of the destruction of the Russian Commons. Out of these reasons Marx wrote down his analysis of the Russian Commons in a correspondence with Vera Zasulich.
The Tragedy of the Common Sense
Author: Dinu Koica
A reaction paper to the article “Tragedy of the Commons” by Garret Hardin
Reading the article ‘Tragedy of the Commons’ by Garret Hardin, one must notice the multidisciplinary aspect of it. In his way of building up his argument, the author is borrowing from fields such as neoclassical and behavioral economics, game theory, evolutionary biology, abstract mathematics and psychoanalysis. Hardin even quotes Hegel, the Bible, Nietzsche and Adam Smith. This cocktail of quite heterogeneous knowledge, the mix of hard sciences and humanities with little romantic detours, begs the question – Is Hardin using a unique set of tools to shed new light on the problem of the commons or is he just cherry picking to get to the desired conclusions?
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