Ten things you should know about socialism | openDemocracy
WEBFeb 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 ...
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Totalitarianism in the twentieth century and beyond
WEBAug 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 ...
Six reasons why protest is so important for democracy
WEB3. 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 ...
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Remembering Ukraine’s Revolution of Dignity | openDemocracy
WEBFeb 18, 2020 · While Wynnnyckyj claims that “a new body politic” emerged out of Ukraine’s Revolution of Dignity (p. 18), it is not clear that this new body politic embraced most of, let alone all, of the ...
Race and racism in modern Turkey | openDemocracy
WEBNov 5, 2014 · First President of the Republic of Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. Wikimedia/Public domain.When General İlker Basbuğ, the highest ranking officer in Turkey until just a few years ago, defined ...
What does it mean to be a global citizen? | openDemocracy
WEBFeb 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 ...
War: justifiable or simply catastrophic? | openDemocracy
WEBAl 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 ...
The Crimean conundrum | openDemocracy
WEBOur highlighting of the conundrum is based on the results of a public opinion survey we organised on the Crimean peninsula in December 2014. The survey was a random scientific survey of 750 ...