This study identifies, and takes issue with, a trend of idealism within traditional Scottish historyThis trend causes the explanatory objects of most comments on the Scottish Poor Law to be constructed in terms of the criteria, largely unquestioned, of twentieth century 'Welfare'. By contrast, the explanatory object of this work locates the Scottish Poor Law, as it was amended in 18^5, outwith ...

Paul Mattick's work still awaits a working-class movement which will find in it a historical understanding of a phase in capitalist history ("the mixed economy" of the postwar era) that will allow the working class to make sense of the newness and distinctiveness of its revolutionary aspirations. Paul Mattick realized that this movement may never come, that his message in a bottle may remain fo...

The historical failures of Marxism in the twentieth-century came in three forms: the inability to account for the rise of fascism and Nazism; the establishment of authoritarian regimes where “communist” revolutions had occurred, largely in pre-industrial societies from barely post-feudal Russia to peasant-based China and “developing” nations such as Vietnam; and the incapacity of the proletaria...

Unlike other research papers, we will start our exploration into the Romanian higher education system during communist times, by going through some statistical data. This will be followed shortly by a short review of some other papers approaching the subject of higher education during communist times and, at the end, will be summed up to provide a theoretical framework for analysis. It must be ...

At its foundation in Moscow on 23 June 1921, the International Union of Red Sports and Gymnastics Associations, better known as Red Sport International (RSI), defined its mission as “the creation and amalgamation of revolutionary proletarian sports and gymnastics organizations in all countries of the world and their transformation into support centers for the proletariat in its class struggle.”...

In 2008 [corrected] the Catholic Church published a document entitled Dignitas Personae (DP) about a range of bioethical issues related to the areas of assisted reproduction and human genetics. The objective of this paper is analyzing the issues treated in the same and comments the novelty of his arguments in the bioethical thinking of the Catholic Church. DP document has an introduction, three...

Abstract This essay stitches together the fragments of Marx's work on United States that are scattered in newspaper articles, letters, notes, some digressions his early writings, economic manuscripts and Capital (1867). The main aim is to show what we can call a “global history Civil War” emerges from pen: global not simply geographical sense, is, because it expands European space beyond Atlant...

Antigone’s afterlives in Ireland have always enacted critical gestures of social protest and mourning that expose the fundamental fragility human rights caught up symbolic conflict between oppressors oppressed. This paper seeks to explore scope rereading certain Irish figurations Antigone – exemplary text European humanism through a posthumanist lens unveils new radical understandings modern in...

The present article aims to offer excerpts f an essential by the Romanian “national poet” Mihai Eminescu in English translation, with a historical commentary. translation make Eminescu’s text available international audience of scholars, helping write more accurate social and cultural history 19th century Europe. In turn, commentary show that political vision, although substantially conservativ...