Anti-Communism and the Struggle for the Renewal of Communism

The fallacy of communism.

Marxism after communism

It is with apprehension but also conviction that I defend Marxism today1apprehension because we live in a period that is suspicious of visions of alternative futures, skeptical of grand historical narrative, dismissive of materialist explanations, rejecting of class analysis while tolerating capitalism's defects and pathologies as unavoidable and natural; conviction because we live in a period ...

COMMUNISM ’ S POSTHUMOUS TRIAL THE BLACK BOOK OF COMMUNISM : CRIMES , TERROR , REPRESSION . By Stéphane

The political economy of change after communism

I survey the first twenty-five years of economic change in the former communist countries after the fall of the Berlin Wall. While diverging sharply from one another, these countries have converged economically and politically towards their nearest neighbors outside the Soviet bloc. The typical country experienced a spurt of economic reform in the early 1990s, slowing dramatically from around 1...

the search for the self in becketts theatre: waiting for godot and endgame

this thesis is based upon the works of samuel beckett. one of the greatest writers of contemporary literature. here, i have tried to focus on one of the main themes in becketts works: the search for the real "me" or the real self, which is not only a problem to be solved for beckett man but also for each of us. i have tried to show becketts techniques in approaching this unattainable goal, base...