Review. A Socialist Activist in Industrial Workplaces under Ukrainian bourgeois democracy 1998-2003
In April 2000, Oleg Dubrovsky managed to sign on at the Dnepropetrovsk Rolled Products Works or DZPV (Днепропетровский завод прокатных валков). A month earlier he had quit his job at Dneprotyazhbummash before they could sack him for shop-floor organising; another two years before that he had instigated a protest strike over unpaid wages at the […]
The Second Noha, Poststructuralism, and the Desert Islands of Our “Selves”
the careful reader has already questioned: why the leg[1] is it your limb and if so why does it walk so disjointly from you (Anton Polunin, “Last Will and Testament”, in Noha) It so happened that while working on a review of the second issue of the literary nonfiction journal Noha, I was also […]
Replacing the corrupt elite is not enough. Review of a book on the political economy of Ukraine
A global perspective A very positive feature of Marco Bojcun’s new book, ‘Towards a Political Economy of Ukraine’, is that it attempts to situate the development of capitalism in Ukraine in the global perspective. The author cites some authors from the tradition of world-system analysis, such as Chase-Dunn, and repeatedly underlines Ukraine’s particular function in […]
Democracy or the power of experts? A Review on “The New Authoritarianism” by Salvatore Babones
This provocative book is full of straightforward critical statements and fresh ideas, supported by logical argument and historical excursus. Those, who seek a sharp analysis and a clear diagnosis of the contemporary state of American democracy, will find those answers in this thrilling read. Adversely, those, who prefer a more global intellectual exercise, will find […]
