“Communism Happened!”

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 ...

What Happened

Alcohol primarily interferes with the ability to form new long-term memories, leaving intact previously established long-term memories and the ability to keep new information active in memory for brief periods. As the amount of alcohol consumed increases, so does the magnitude of the memory impairments. Large amounts of alcohol, particularly if consumed rapidly, can produce partial (i.e., fragm...

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

Rethinking Migration Regimes: Lesson of Post-Communism

Recent thinking about migration regimes is often defined by an object-subject divide and focuses on aspects of regulation by state and non-state actor. If considered at all, migrants are mere challenges to the regime. Historiography often further reduces this approach and uses “migration regime” as a vague metaphor for state-centered sets of regulations, often only administration. In opposition...