The Early Fidel: Roots of Castro’s 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 effect of taftan pozzolan on the compressive strength of concrete in the environmental conditions of oman sea (chabahar port)

cement is an essential ingredient in the concrete buildings. for production of cement considerable amount of fossil fuel and electrical energy is consumed. on the other hand for generating one tone of portland cement, nearly one ton of carbon dioxide is released. it shows that 7 percent of the total released carbon dioxide in the world relates to the cement industry. considering ecological issu...