Ten things you should know about socialism | openDemocracy
Feb 4, 2020 · 4. The U.S., Soviet Union, and China have more in common than you think. As capitalism emerged from feudalism in Europe in the 19th century, it advocated liberty, equality, fraternity, and ...
Conspiracy theories aside, there is something fishy about the Great ...
Aug 16, 2021 · The set of conspiracy theories around the Great Reset are nebulous and hard to pin down, but piecing them together gives us something like this: the Great Reset is the global elite’s plan to ...
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Six reasons why protest is so important for democracy
3. In an electoral democracy, protest provides an essential voice for minority groups. The classic theorists of representational government recognised that universal suffrage and majority voting ...
Totalitarianism in the twentieth century and beyond
Aug 27, 2019 · Totalitarianism in the twentieth century and beyond. A key under-studied area for analysis is how contemporary extreme right movements can also be seen as totalitarian. Indeed, it is not difficult ...
War: justifiable or simply catastrophic? | openDemocracy
Al Qaeda is a loose network confined to no particular country. Yemen is the latest focus of anxiety and attention. The Afghan war has created greater and more widespread hostility to the US and ...
Why we need White History Month | openDemocracy
Oct 25, 2021 · Perhaps, by announcing a White History Month, in which non-White peoples are explicitly evacuated from key points in the history of the UK, we might be able to understand better the mechanics of ...
Communism and democracy – a living legacy | openDemocracy
Apr 27, 2018 · According to classical Marxism, liberal or “bourgeois” democracy is an instrument of class rule that serves to protect private property and to preserve the capitalist system. To create a ...
What does it mean to be a global citizen? | openDemocracy
Feb 13, 2013 · A global citizen is someone who identifies with being part of an emerging world community and whose actions contribute to building this community’s values and practices. Such a definition of ...
Hannah Arendt and the politics of truth | openDemocracy
Oct 25, 2020 · Arendt cautions that factual truth is in danger of “being maneuvered out of the world for a time, and possibly forever.” “Facts and events”, she writes, “are infinitely more fragile ...