When you don't understand something - read it a second time, if you still don't understand it - read it several times until you get it. If that doesn't work - start criticizing what you didn't understand or at best the little you did understand. This article is a response to the review of …
More »The history of photography as a lesson in capitalism
Photography is one of those strange creations of human culture that is difficult to fit into strictly established frameworks. It can be both art and science, used for entertainment, advertising and what not. We are so used to it - and at the same time we are ...
More »The virtue of consumerism
Author: Stefan Kichev Recently, in Western societies, and in our country as well, we often hear about the low and vulgar nature of "consumerism" - of consumer culture - how this quasi-philosophy makes us abandon the important things in life, and on the other hand, lures us to consider everything ...
More »Monuments game
Author: Ivo Kolarov The shamelessness of the left-wing political spectrum by nature has no limits. Its main apologists at home and abroad are able to deny and justify all the crimes of the followers of their political ideology from the Holodomor in Ukraine to the current situation in Venezuela. In order to take the position of “fighters …
More »Capitalism doesn't create meaningless jobs, it eliminates them
Author: Alexander Mihaylov I recently came across an article on the website "Barricade" entitled "Why Capitalism Creates Meaningless Jobs". The author of the article believes that people are still not completely freed from the need to work, not for anything else, but because the corporate elites who actually rule us cannot ...
More »Capitalism doesn't care about women, but it still makes them freer
“Your capitalist attitude towards women is not there under communism.” These were the words of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to Vice President Richard Nixon at the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow in 1959. Nixon was there, representing not only the American government, but also General Mills, Whirlpool …
More »Socialism in conservatism
Author: Stefan Kichev Man is born naked into this world, equipped only with his mind and body, which, forced by circumstances, he uses to transform the resources given by nature so as to satisfy his needs and improve his standard of living. The only way he can do this is through …
More »There is a left, there is a right!
Author: Kaloyan Pravov Background The summer of 2013 is a turning point in modern Bulgarian history. This year marks the birth and conduct of the last major political campaign of the Bulgarian pro-European democratic civil society. For over 400 days, citizens in most regional cities of Bulgaria demonstrated their defiance to the state, which dared to betray the services …
More »Ayn Rand and the moral defense of capitalism
The article is part of a series of publications dedicated to the fourth annual conference of European Students For Liberty, which will be held on 22.10 at 9 am at the Ramada Hotel in Sofia. For more information and free registration, see the official Facebook event. AUTHOR: SILVIA YONKOVA There is hardly another name among the supporters …
More »Freedom is under threat again - by its own achievements
Lately, I have been increasingly encountering an interesting phenomenon – an awful lot of smart and thoughtful people, reflecting and commenting on global problems, invariably blame freedom. Starting from offshore zones and banks, through Uber and Airbnb, and ending with personal consumer choice and the management of private property, the people in question are always …
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