By: Viswanatha Subramaniam | 2010-04-04 | Politics USSR was a powerful communist country in the East, balancing the western USA. How the communism which kept this large continent in Europe and North Asia together for over 6 decades separated into pieces and turned into capitalist nations by sacrificing their bonded communist principles? Do you think communism has a life span and then it dies? What is your suggestion that could have kept communism going strong for ever to bind the people into unity and continue to build a welfare state? read more
By: K.R.SURENDRAN | 2010-11-27 | Politics Prakash Karat, General Secretary, Communist Marxist Party of India (Marxist) in an interview with Eric Hobsbwam, the Marxist historian, held sometime back reportedly did attribute to Indian Communists' failure to penetrate the Hindi belt and spread its influence in North India to the caste-ridden society prevailing there. read more
By: Airavat Singh | 2010-04-04 | Politics Tyler Walker Williams, an Amercian Communist studying in India's JN University (New Delhi), stood for and won in the local student body elections last month. His article appeared in the local newspaper (Hindustan Times) describing his election as a blow to the "forces of globalization and neo-liberalism". My response to his claims: read more
By: Gene Lalor | 2010-03-29 | Politics "I do not believe in communism any more than you do but there is nothing wrong with the Communists in this country. Several of the best friends I have got are Communists." Those words, famously spoken by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, seem archaic today. In retrospect, pre-dating the Cold War against the Communist Menace, they are also fatuously naive. A common misconception is that, largely thanks to President Ronald Reagan, we overcame that menace and won that war when the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics collapsed, 1989-1991. read more
By: Michael Hume | 2010-09-21 | Politics Though many so-called progressives would love to separate them, from my point of view there are two other continua which march more-or-less in lockstep with communism-capitalism. These are statism-liberty, and atheism-faith. read more
By: K.R.SURENDRAN | 2010-11-01 | News and society Now that both parties are in a shambles, the sole reason being lack of dedicated leaders willing to work at the grass-roots level nominal. As Indian Express in an Editorial pointed out and as Prakash Karat pointed out Kiernan's 'honouring' of most of Indian Communist leaders calling them 'cafe-shop' going intellectuals' and Prakash Karat himself one among them. read more
By: Rob | 2010-12-03 | Destinations Previously known as Danzig, the city was the subject of dispute between Germany and Poland and it had been here that the opening shots of World War II were fired as Germany officially annexed the metropolis and integrated into Prussia. read more
By: gaga | 2011-01-02 | Business "Communist Manifesto" (the "Declaration") has long been a hot research at home and abroad and difficult topic, their research innovation. Especially the past decade, a number of influential academic treatise have published research has made significant progress, mainly in the "Declaration" of the publication and dissemination of its texts, and Meaning, and the " Declaration "and the Marxism of contemporary China read more
By: Delwyn Lounsbury | 2011-07-30 | Politics Now, tyrannical President Obama communist seeks to divide Americans by blasting business in every speech he makes for having corporate jets. How many jobs are to be lost when airplanes stop being built and used? This guy does not understand a thing about job creation. Totalitarian Obama wants to violate our individual inherent rights to life, liberty and private property. read more
By: Brian John | 2011-09-27 | College After the peasants had seen the suffering and disarray that the nationalist government's antics caused during the Japanese occupation in the 40s, the rural districts were ready for a change. The war with the Japanese finally came to an end with them surrendering in 1945, but the traces of their wrath were spread far and beyond rural North China. Between 1943 and 1945, Raoyang and the rest of Heibei saw.... read more
By: Dezan Shira | 2011-07-04 | Politics The early decades of the 20th Century in China were tinted with a constant state of turmoil. After enduring a string of military defeats brought on by dissidents and foreign countries, the Qing Dynasty was overthrown in 1912, ending almost 6,000 years of imperial rule in China. In its place was a new national republic, headed by the revolutionist, Dr. Sun Yat-Sen. read more
By: Vasiliy Terkin | 2010-10-08 | Arts & Entertainment Have you ever wondered what kind of Russian empire culture did the communists really show? Well all of your answers are in this article and more can be found at Soviet Art Me. Many cultures around the world portray their feelings in art work and the Russians are not different. read more
By: Lance Winslow | 2010-03-31 | Economics The corruption in Russia is well known when it comes to business endeavors. Still, Russian businesspeople, even though they deal with crime and corruption, graft and extortion, consider themselves entrepreneurs. Indeed in those types of situations, they are the only real entrepreneurs, even if their system is full of corruption. In Socialist countries, where the government runs everything (or tries too), there are very few real entrepreneurs, however, one could say that those businesses that participate illegally in the underground economy selling contraband are indeed entrepreneurs in their own right. read more
By: Eva Jio | 2011-06-20 | Electronics Shooting action and movement is a fun part of photography, and something that many photographers, from amateur to professional, find themselves doing on a regular basis. But it's often hard to get a great shot when your subjects are moving at a rapid pace. However, blurriness, out of focus shots and bad lighting can be easily avoided by following a few simple guidelines. read more