Two Worlds: Communism and Western Society

Inequality and Support for Restributive Policy: One World of Post-Communism, Two Worlds of Western Capitalism

This paper deals with attitudes towards inequality by comparing a number of post-communist and western capitalist societies. The data are from the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) of 1992. As a first step, basic differences in attitudes are described. In comparison East Europeans perceive on average slightly more distributional conflicts, criticize income differences more strongly a...

: Tocqueville between Two Worlds

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When two worlds collide.

This special issue of Human Biology commemorates the quincentennial of Christopher Columbus's journeys to the New World. This historical event, the collision of New and Old World cultures, forever altered the demography of the world. As a result of this contact, the native peoples of the Americas experienced innumerable hardships, disease, death, and the destruction of civilizations, tribes, an...

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 ...