“Mr., are you not cold?”, said a woman in Polish to Agustin while he stood barefoot in the chilliness of November, outside his hostel. He didn’t understand Polish, but he was too lost in his own thoughts to pay attention… Continue Reading →
What if everything we knew about how the world works was dispensable? I’m not talking here about escaping reality by presenting an alternative world but about thinking the unthinkable, doing the undoable. This is what characterizes the commonplace heroes of… Continue Reading →
1. Critical points of Marx’s and Engel’s Communist Manifesto 1.1. Class struggle One of the most essential premises of Marx’s works is that “The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles” (Marx; Engels 1848: 14).… Continue Reading →
Poznan, Poland, December 2017 Introduction: The Western philosophical tradition of logical refutation of theories and imposition of new paradigms has led to the demise of Western philosophy. This science is nowadays little more than an intellectual hobby which is only… Continue Reading →
Imagine being there as the Berlin wall fell. Though it might seem like a long time ago, 1990 marked the latest sea change in Earth’s geopolitical climate cycle. Communism, arch-nemesis of democracy and the West, had lost. Or had it?… Continue Reading →
For many, this looks like an irrelevant question, because the answer seems so evident. But definitions are very important to avoid confusion. This is my personal definition, but I’m not so vain as to believe I came up with this… Continue Reading →