A key quality of leftist intellectuals is their total denial of reality. In their fight for a “just world,” they skillfully use the rhetoric of Big Brother (not the one from television, but the one from Orwell’s novel “1984”), easily managing to mislead their audience, calling freedom slavery, war…
More »Capital 2.0: The Role of Property and Rights in Capitalism and Unmasked Anti-Capitalism
Lately I have been witnessing continuous attacks against the evil capitalism that is ruining the world. In all media, and especially in social media, this is a top thesis. This is an extremely strange phenomenon considering that practically everything that humanity has achieved – technical progress, duration and quality of life, clean environment …
More »Guest article: Capital 2.0: The role of property and rights in capitalism and anti-capitalism without a mask
Boyan Rashev Lately I have been witnessing continuous attacks against the bad capitalism that is ruining the world. In all media, and especially in social media, this is a top thesis. This is an extremely strange phenomenon considering that practically everything that humanity has achieved – technical progress, duration and quality of life, pure …
More »BSP, political morality and the impossibility of socialism
June 14, 2015 marks the 2nd anniversary of the start of the protests against Plamen Oresharski’s government. Ironically, something else happened on the same day: “There is such a party!”[1] With this appeal, BSP leader Mihail Mikov addressed the “disheartened” Bulgarians in Kovachevtsi – the birthplace of …
More »Thanksgiving - the great deception
Every year at this time, students across America are taught the official story of Thanksgiving. Newspapers, radio, television, and magazines devote an enormous amount of time and space to the holiday. It's all quite colorful and fascinating. But it's also quite misleading. The official story has nothing to do with...
More »Victims of totalitarianism, whataboutism and what to remember
Today we honor the victims of totalitarianism, especially two of its most horrific manifestations – Nazism and Communism, which led to the deaths of millions and the destruction of human well-being for decades. On this occasion, we have published some statistics from “The Black Book of Communism”, a volume by Harvard University Press, in which …
More »Socialism - from absurd ideas to terrifying consequences
The 24th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall (November 2013) gives us a good reason to look back at the economic and philosophical foundations of Marxism; of the “scientific” communism that was supposed to lead humanity to the inevitable final stage of history and the end of the dialectical clash between classes. We all know what this experiment led to…
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