Societies that have undergone systemic change are characterized as ‘post’—post-socialist, post-colonial, etc.—to encapsulate the impact past still has on their structure and functioning. Research these societies therefore tended to adopt a mostly temporal approach, investigating tension between continuity change. Using example of post-apartheid South Africa, I make case for more balanced approa...

would like to thank Mark Watson for correcting a mistake in his summary of Cantor’s argument. 1A note on citations: Mises’s article appeared in German in 1920. An English translation, “Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth,” appeared in Hayek’s (1990) collection Collectivist Economic Planning in 1935. 2The current paper assumes a basic familiarity with the socialist calculation deb...

justice demonstrates in behavior of any person with another person and in government behavior with the people of the society. social justice is a kind of justice that expresses this concept in society. selecting the slogan of justice from modernity1 by marxism caused the social justice be the main idea in the governance of communist cities. the idea that it is different concept based of marxist...

The socialist factory, as the 'incubator' of the new socialist (wo)man, is a productive entry point for the study of socialist modernization and its contradictions. By outlining some theoretical and methodological insights gathered through field-research in factories in former Yugoslavia, we seek to connect the state of labour history in the Balkans to recent breakthroughs made by labour histor...

The article examinesthe European direction in the foreign policy of Ukraine and Georgia, identifies limitations integration process for these countries. Among restrictions, not only specific parameters criteria joining are important, but also need consent all member countries, as well societies states applying membership.An additional unstable factor this issue is NATO, because NATO largely rem...

As a part of traditional Chinese culture, clan has both positive and negative impacts on the construction of new socialist countryside. On the one hand, it has definite positive impacts on protecting farmers’ interests, satisfying the psychological and emotional needs of farmers, and facilitating the construction of new socialist countryside. On the other hand, due to their narrow-minded intere...

We present a solution to the Tiercé problem, in which two players want to know whether they have backed the same combination (but neither player wants to disclose its combination to the other one). The problem is also known as the socialist millionaires’ problem, in which two millionaires want to know whether they happen to be equally rich. In our solution, both players will be convinced of the...

Since the death of Mao Zedong in 1976 and the launch of market reforms under Deng Xiaoping’s leadership in 1978, China has undergone dramatic changes that have affected the lives of Chinese citizens in multiple ways. With the step-by-step dismantling of China’s system of centrally planned socialism and other reforms, growth rates have accelerated, producing rising living standards, reduced pove...