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Seminar “Global Alternatives to Left-Wing Powers in the 21st Century: Marxism and Other Ideologies”

On June 17, 2015 the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and the Valdai International Discussion Club will hold a seminar “Global Alternatives to Left-Wing Powers in the 21st Century: Marxism and Other Ideologies”. The meeting will be broadcast online.

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ZCommunications | The Dangers of Specialization by Boris Kagarlitsky | ZSpace

ZCommunications | The Dangers of Specialization by Boris Kagarlitsky | ZSpace | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

In 1604, King Philip III of Spain suffered a burn while sleeping near the fireplace because no nobleman could be found with the authority to move his chair. That is a good example of the dangers of excessive specialization.

 
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Boris Kagarlitsky: Eastern Ukraine people’s republics between militias and oligarchs | Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal

Boris Kagarlitsky: Eastern Ukraine people’s republics between militias and oligarchs | Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

August 16, 2014 – Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- The war between the Ukraine government and the republics of Novorossiya [New Russia] is gradually taking on the character of a positional stand-off. The resources of both sides are exhausted, and fighting reserves are at an end. For the people’s republics, defending themselves against the many times larger military forces of the Kiev regime, the well-known principle of “a government needs to win, but for an insurrection it is enough not to lose” operates with full force.

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