Society

The basic facts about the history of Eastern Rumelia are well known. It was created with the consent of the main European powers, including the Ottoman Empire and Russia. According to the decisions of the Treaty of Berlin (July 13, 1878), the region has administrative autonomy under the direct authority of the Sultan. His representative is the Governor-General (Chief Governor), who …

The right to free association should only apply to companies that have not received government benefits, otherwise it is favoritism Last Friday, Paypal closed the account of controversial American TV presenter and “far-right” conspiracy theorist Alex Jones of Infowars. In this way, the technology giant joins Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, Apple and many others, …

The spread of communism cannot be protected by the right to free expression. Recently, questions have been increasingly raised on domestic social networks as to whether the “innocent” victims of the totalitarian right-wing regimes in Bulgaria and around the world, who used repressive methods to save their countries from the USSR-funded …

Industrialization is one of the visible dimensions of the economic and social modernization experienced by developed capitalist societies in the 19th century. The process of the emergence of industrial structures is a complex result of relative spiritual, economic and scientific freedom, security of private property and appropriate institutional structure. Communists put industrialization among their main economic …

The economic bankruptcy of socialism has long been convincingly proven by Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek. In the absence of private ownership of the means of production, there is no market, and without a market, money prices cannot be formed. Without prices, rational production, construction, etc. cannot be organized. Separately …

You may or may not have heard, but the European Union is trying for the second time this year to pass a regulation that fundamentally threatens freedom on the Internet. It is the new EU Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market, which updates the current legislation of the union in the field of …

For a long time, including in Bulgaria, there has been a lot of talk about the effect of social networks on our society. This modern Gutenberg revolution is fundamentally changing every aspect of our existence, opening up new horizons and creating new problems. Cases such as the sudden and coordinated deletion of Infowars (a media outlet with millions of users) from almost …

In order for a nation to become rich, its entire population must be emancipated, not just the aristocracy. Monarchism received a new impetus among libertarian and conservative circles after the monumental work “Democracy – The God Who Failed” by Hans-Hermann Hoppe. In it, the author criticizes the so-called “public ownership of the state”, expressed in parliamentary democracy …

Bulgarian socialism is like any other socialism – a well-intentioned, but clumsy and often bloody socio-economic experiment. At the national level, the common characteristics manifest themselves in a specific way. This is how the sweet native picture of the Bulgarian socialist past is born. In several consecutive publications we will focus on the Bulgarian manifestations of typical …

The state is about to take another inadequate step towards the integration of people with disabilities in Bulgaria. Changes in labor legislation are being discussed, according to which companies will be obliged to hire a certain number of employees with disabilities. Quotas are envisaged, depending on the number of employees in specific companies: employers with 20 to 49 …