Cuban 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

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...

Cuban Clave Rhythms

Several geometric, graph theoretical and combinatorial techniques useful for the teaching, analysis, generation and automated recognition of rhythms are proposed and investigated. The techniques are illustrated on the six fundamental 4/4 time clave and bell rhythm timelines most frequently used in African, Brazilian and Cuban music. It was found that Pressing's measure of rhythm complexity agre...