As many as twenty years after the overthrow of its authoritarian political regime, Serbia remains a ‘proto-democracy’, supported by economic ideology wild neoliberalism. Under such circumstances, urban development is subject to various abuses, misapplication legal procedures, neglect public interest, and politicisation planning. In particular, megaprojects exhibit distortions, they require spec...

The article shows how the Khmer Rouge’s restructuring of the environment into a socialist utopian space could be explained as an attempt to establish and tighten control over the populace and the factionalized movement. By inscribing power structures into the environment, the Khmer Rouge tried to ‘create’ loyal and faithful subjects. Michel Foucault’s concepts of a ‘disciplinary space’ and pano...

Short of state implosion, what those who wish to promote free markets most need is an unevasive, contemporary, socialist theory. A bird cannot fly without air resistance, and those who oppose planning, egalitarianism, and “democracy” cannot long be sustained by grudging consent, however wide, relieved only by pedantic disputes over the terms of agreement. W. Paul Cockshott and Allin Cottrell in...

Patricia D. Fox's article, "What's Past is Prologue: Imagining the Socialist Nation in Cuba and in Hungary," examines the symbolic mooring of Cuban and Hungarian identity, recuperated Caliban from William Shakespeare's The Tempest and an ever conflicted Faustus/Adam from Imre Madách's Az ember tragédiája, respectively. Despite serial cosmological fragmentations and political upheaval, the prese...

From the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, specialist institutions such as sanatoria and asylums were established. In these, patients could be separated and isolated from the community and provided with the control and management of specific medical conditions such as tuberculosis and lunacy. At the start of this period, tuberculosis was a disease closely associated with the rapid gr...

In his book The Economics of Feasible Socialism Alec Nove criticizes the methods of Marxist economics, as misleading or irrelevant for the task of building socialism, and rejects the goal of Marxist politics—socialism without commodity production—as impossible of realization. Any effective answer to his objections must follow the same procedure that Marx employed in his study of the emergence o...

The urbanisation of Addis Ababa is a product multilayered socio-spatial processes in temporal dimensions. To understand urbanisation, we employed theoretical framework relevant to the developing world. aspects were also supplemented with empirical evidence obtained from satellite images 1974, 1991, and 2020. These years mark end three recognised regime shifts (imperialist, socialist, contempora...