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April 14, 2015 Jin Chung

To be young, perchance to dream
He got to the river quay, or more exactly to the sidewalk on the other side of the paved road running along the river, in the late morning. Too many people came out to see his Royal and Imperial Majesty. It was a beautiful, warm June day, the first week of what seemed likely to […]
Devant la guerre: On E. H. Carr's "The twenty years' crisis 1919-39"
There is no better time than now to read E. H. Carr’s The twenty years’ crisis 1919 39. It could have been written last month. The similarities of the situation that Carr describes (the first edition of the book was published in 1939) and today are striking. Not solely in the most recent events including the […]
Would Lenin have approved of the IMF?
A simple-minded answer to the question is, No. The IMF is entirely dedicated to preserving the world capitalist system and any socialist must disapprove of it. I think this answer is wrong. But before I explain it, I have say a few words about the Fund. Recently, I have been involved more with the IMF […]
The ideology of Donald J. Trump
Does Donald J. Trump have an ideology, and what it is? The first part of the question is redundant: every individual has an ideology and if we believe that they do not have it, it is because it might represent an amalgam of pieces collected from various dialogical frameworks that are simply rearranged, and thus […]
Russia’s apocalyptic messianism
Having recently read Kropotkin’s memoirs (reviewed here), reminded me, in his description of intellectual history of Russian revolutionary movements, of Berdyaev’s book, “The origin and the meaning of Russian Communism”. Berdyaev wrote it in 1935-36; it was published in 1938. The only contemporary events referred to in the book are the Moscow trials (in one sentence), and […]
Cultural revolution in the land of Kafka and Borges
Famous anarchist theorist, revolutionary and a renowned explorer of Siberia, Peter Kropotkin’s memoirs were published in 1898, written in Russian but originally printed in English in The Atlantic Monthly. They were later slightly revised and expanded, and this final version is what we currently have and which I have just read. It is a very clearly and, I think, […]
Freedom by North-West
(I will not provide any citation in this article because it is not academic writing. Furthermore, since the topic is immense and has, from many angles, been written about before, any citation will simply open the question why such authors were cited, and not others. Thus it is merely a personal view—and, as we know, […]
The third framing: Can an international economic system exist in the world of nationalisms?
The post World War II international economic organizations were conceived and founded at the Bretton Woods conference held in July 1944, almost exactly eighty years ago. They sought to avoid the disastrous economic effects of protectionism that deepened and lengthened the Great Depression and perhaps led to the War. The rules were based on the […]
The end of the great order under the Heaven
The very well-written and easy to read book by Gary Gerstle (The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order) makes two key points. First, and continuing from Gerstle’s previous book (The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, coauthored with Steve Fraser) it insists on the idea of a political and economic “order”. An […]
Living through another great transformation…
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