Russian Wage Systems under Communism

*achers Under Communism— The Case off East Germany

I N OUR always ongoing attempts to improve the education and professional status of teachers, we have often looked outside of our borders for comparisons and ideas. Generally we have observed the democracies, where political ideas have much in common with our own, and sometimes the Soviet Union, with which we are obviously in competition internationally. However, there is one European coun try—...

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 ...

The Ratio of Political Goodness and Negative Freedom in Berlin's Political Thought (With Emphasis on Russian Communism)

The present article aims to examine Isaiah Berlin's views and ideas, and gives answers to the questions of how political goodness is linked to the concept of negative liberty in Berlin's thought,  and how his view of political goodness has formed his critique looking toward the political system of the Soviet Union. Political goodness in Berlin's thought seems to be multiplied, and from the plur...

Centralized Wage Setting , Wage Drift and Stabilization Policies under Trade Unionism