Monthly Archives: April 2026

In society’s perception, the reality of constant psychological mobilization and the tense expectation of global military conflict became a way of life to be reproduced by two generations, for whom fidelity to convictions was always inextricably linked to fear and … Continue reading →

Jeremy Morris, Red Threads: What was lost is self-evident to anyone alive today in the Russian Federation: an industrialized workforce with job guarantees and symbolic capital, if poor working conditions. What is preserved is an embedded sense that the rush … Continue reading →

I can perhaps make this abjuration of philosophical neutrality in the interest of political liberalism more palatable by referring yet again to the Wittgensteinian analogy between vocabularies and tools. —Richard Rorty, Contingency, irony, and solidarity, (New York: Cambridge University Press, … Continue reading →

Volodymyr Ishchenko, International Socialism: As for the question of NATO, this is a question not so much of Ukraine’s incorporation into NATO, but of Russia’s exclusion—a point Putin himself emphasises quite often. This is apparent, for example, from recently de-classified … Continue reading →