Tag: Soviet Union
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Dialectics are dead: Long live Europe and death to the Communist Party of China
Slavoj Zizek remained a consistent left-wing Hegelian with his position on Ukraine and the Russian invasion, but turned to partisan politics and economic history when writing about Trump’s intervention on Venezuela. In his very long years of deep philosophical research and writing, Zizek was the only Marxist philosopher to preach that dialectics weren’t loyal to…
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The ships were over-budget and cost Malta Shipyards their future but Karmenu Vella didn’t tell you this
Political programmes on the Labour Party’s propaganda channel, ONE, are produced as if aimed at children. All nuance, controversy, and complex issues are stripped out so the audience can watch without engaging much grey matter. Too much grey matter ay hurt the audience. Karmenu Vella, previous EU Commissioner and Labour Minister from Dom Mintoff’s days…
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An era that is no more
Somehow, Cuba remains standing as one of the last relics of totalitarian communism, yet it still appears as if it is fading away into its history as it slowly comes out of its shell. Communism in Cuba felt like a permanent state of affairs where time stood still: a state of totalitarianism glamourised by junk-old…
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Russia is able to act as it pleases because the West is allowing it to
In an era when information was more tightly controlled, it took a long time for Western European communists to realise the extent of the Soviet Union’s misrepresentation by the official propaganda of the USSR’s Communist Party. For many it took an invasion of a European capital, more specifically, the Soviet Union’s invasion of Hungary in…
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The West has always had its fifth columns
Fifth columnists are usually individuals who hold a very deep resentment for their own society, and they may not necessarily be motivated by political reasons. Inevitably, people in the West who hate the West and what it stands for may easily accept extreme ideas by the enemies of the West, whatever these may be. When…
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The Soviet Union was dissolved thirty two years ago
On the 25th December 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev gave his final speech on TV resigning as President of the Soviet Union. The USSR flag was lowered from the Kremlin later in the evening. Mark CamilleriWebsite Editor Historian and Publisher
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This time it’s not different (part 3): BRICS is not new and will not dominate the West
The Zoltan Poszars of today have either skipped all their lessons in their 20th-century history class, or they are missing out on the most basic and fundamental facts of the global economy. Either way, they are wrong as they have always been. There is a lot of hype on BRICS and this hype has been…
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The man who stopped halfway
There are not many times in history when the monarch and centre of power of Russia was challenged let alone defeated by an internal rival. The last time the Russian Presidency was challenged was in 1993 by a group of deputies in the Supreme Soviet and the Congress of Deputies who challenged Yeltsin’s unconstitutional dissolution…
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The deputy-leader of the Labour Party replies to the mayor of Gżira with a Soviet-style message
At this stage, I don’t know if Labour officials are acting the way they do because they have a very low IQ, or because they no longer have any shame for willfully embracing their role in society as members of the cult of Robert Abela. However, I am definitely sure that they are aware that…
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The deputy-leader of the Labour Party replies to the mayor of Gżira with a Soviet-style message
At this stage, I don’t know if Labour officials are acting the way they do because they have a very low IQ, or because they no longer have any shame for willfully embracing their role in society as members of the cult of Robert Abela. However, I am definitely sure that they are aware that…
