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Allies of social democrats
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Allies of social democrats

To create and develop a political movement, it is useful to understand who your allies ...

Social-democratic economy
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Social-democratic economy

In separate articles, we have examined why a planned economy is inefficient and why the ...

Revolutionary conservationism
Revolutionary conservationism

The essence of revolutionary conservationism is to declare one or several types of struggle against ...

Abel Rodionov

Abel Rodionov

How to change power in an authoritarian state
How to change power in an authoritarian state

An authoritarian system is extremely difficult to break, and it is extremely difficult to change ...

Abel Rodionov

Abel Rodionov

Social democrats and equality
Social democrats and equality

From the motto “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”, which was first voiced in Maximilien Robespierre’s speech on ...

Abel Rodionov

Abel Rodionov

“Monopolies do not arise in a free market”
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“Monopolies do not arise in a free market”

Libertarians and other proponents of state non-interference claim that a free market does not tend ...

How Stalin created the nomenklatura
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How Stalin created the nomenklatura

The layer of government officials is quite ancient and universally widespread, yet it plays a ...

The dangers of geographic determinism
The dangers of geographic determinism

We often hear the thesis from conservatives that Russia has a terrible climate, and for ...

Abel Rodionov

Abel Rodionov

Economic systems and formations
Economic systems and formations

The attitude toward the economy is one of the factors that divide political movements and ...

Abel Rodionov

Abel Rodionov

Social democrats and private property
Social democrats and private property

One of the key divergences between social democrats and Marxists is the issue of private ...

Abel Rodionov

Abel Rodionov

Tolerance and social democracy
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Tolerance and social democracy

Let us first consider what the term “tolerance” means in its dictionary sense. Efremova’s Explanatory ...

Social democratic parties of the world
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Social democratic parties of the world

In this article, we will highlight the strongest and most influential social democratic parties of ...

Why some countries are rich and others poor
Why some countries are rich and others poor

How can economic growth and competitiveness be ensured to improve the material well-being of citizens ...

Abel Rodionov

Abel Rodionov

National policy of social democrats
National policy of social democrats

In the relevant articles, we have already analyzed why racism, Nazism, patriotism, nationalism, and fascism ...

Abel Rodionov

Abel Rodionov

How to achieve economic growth
How to achieve economic growth

The well-known researcher Erik Reinert, in his economic bestseller “How Rich Countries Got Rich… and ...

Abel Rodionov

Abel Rodionov

Stalin and antisemitism
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Stalin and antisemitism

Accusing Joseph Stalin of antisemitism is a rather serious matter, because if he was an ...

Anti-Westernism in Russia: “enemies everywhere”
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Anti-Westernism in Russia: “enemies everywhere”

Anti-Western rhetoric became entrenched in Russia in the middle of the 19th century during the ...

“Under Stalin, people were repressed for a reason”
“Under Stalin, people were repressed for a reason”

Russian society has grown so desperate from witnessing rampant corruption that it instinctively, subconsciously desires ...

Abel Rodionov

Abel Rodionov

Populism or principles?
Populism or principles?

Quite unexpectedly, a serious issue for the Russian left has become the question of whether ...

Abel Rodionov

Abel Rodionov

“Smearing one’s own history”
“Smearing one’s own history”

A convenient trick of political propaganda is the accusation of “smearing history” (also known as ...

Abel Rodionov

Abel Rodionov