THE PROGRESSIVES NEED TO MAKE AN EFFORT IN ORDER TO REGAIN CONTROL OF THE AGENDA
In some ways, the struggle today is quite similar to the struggle of previous centuries. There was always a kind of movement or a pro gression in previous centuries from the struggle first for religious freedom, and then for political freedom, and then civil freedoms, and then finally for economic rights as well, and I think today the real question on the table is the extension of human rights in the economic realm.
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24 мая 2011
NOBODY WANTS TO GO BACK, NOBODY IS EAGER TO MOVE FORTH EITHER
In Russia, where both the Left and Right are united in one overwhelming urge to spend petrol money, it would be improper to speak about reactionaries. After all, reactionaries are people who are interesting in bringing back some essence of order that existed there previously.
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24 мая 2011
OVERCOMING BASHFUL NATIONALISM
The national issue and the issue of the country’s integrity are both key challenges for Russia. The ideology of proletarian internationalism has for some time provided a solution to this puzzle, however, an ideological vacuum ensued in the wake of the Soviet Union collapse.
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24 мая 2011