socialism

There are hardly many people who would not accept free consumption of goods or services. However, free should be in quotes, because someone always pays the price in some form. It does not have to be paid in money, it is possible that those who consume do not realize that they are paying, it is possible …

A Bulgarian translation of the novel "In the First Circle" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) was recently published. The story is based on his life experience and concerns one of the so-called sharashkas - secret Soviet camps where imprisoned scientists worked on intelligence or military projects. The disappointment of ...

Twenty people walk into a bar. Five Bulgarians, five Americans, five French, and five British. In each group, there is one person born in 1880, 1920, 1950, 1980, and 2000. All identify themselves politically as “right-wing” and “conservative.” None of them have any …

The socialist economic model was imposed on the Bulgarian countryside between 1948 and 1958. The process is known as collectivization. Labor Cooperative Agricultural Farms (TCAF) were created by force, into which land, livestock and equipment were taken. Over the years, they were enlarged, restructured, renamed, etc., but their essence was not …

Different views on the (re)organization of society are promoted with different labels. Probably the most widely used are left and right. They should briefly explain the essence of proposed reforms and policies, and help identify the political opponent. In this text we will read the views of a Bulgarian “right” from the 1930s and early …

Author: Stilgar Naibov The reason consuming art is a good way to learn history is that it provides a better window through which to see how a society thinks than directly studying history. I clearly remember how in 9th or 10th grade we had to write some kind of analysis of Don Quixote …

On January 21, 1924, Vladimir Ulyanov (Lenin), the ideological inspirer of the October Revolution of 1917 and the first leader of the Soviet Union, died. In the years after his death, a real cult of his personality was created. His body lies in the center of Moscow to this day as a symbol of an entire era. Here …

"The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more influential than is commonly supposed. In reality, the world is not governed by anything else. Practical people who think themselves immune to any intellectual influence are usually slaves to some deceased...

In this episode: - What do "left" and "right" mean? - How has the left evolved over the years? - What is the role of cultural Marxism in the ideology of the left? - What are the relationships of the BSP with the Western left? - Are the urban democrats left or right? For greater convenience, we recommend downloading the audio …

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