This chapter considers interpretations of the globalization process along a continuum ranging fro... more This chapter considers interpretations of the globalization process along a continuum ranging from "realist" emphasis upon sovereignty in the interstate system to "idealist" projections of cosmopolitan citizenship and even global government. The work of Jürgen Habermas is taken to be the most comprehensive via media between the "extreme" positions. In The Postnational Constellation, Habermas relates morality to ethics in explaining the potential for, but also the current limitations upon, cosmopolitan projects. The example of the European Union demonstrates the possibility for politics to "catch up" with globalizing markets. Introduction: Globalization and Political Ethics in General In a discussion of "globalization and political ethics," it seems appropriate to begin with "globalization," which is the easier term to define. Globalization involves "the increasing scope and intensity of commercial, communicative, and exchange relations beyond national borders"
This chapter talks about the articles published in the newspaper Pravda in September-December 192... more This chapter talks about the articles published in the newspaper Pravda in September-December 1920. It includes the articles of 'The Average Communist', the article of 'The Social Basis of the October Revolution', and the article of 'A Straw for the Drowning White Guards'. The psychological isolation of average Communists from the leading partygroups, and the isolation of leading groups from the proletarian masses - these are unquestionable facts. There are several causes. Besides what was said at the outset, it is necessary to point to the inattention of responsible comrades to the education of rank-and-file Communists, the difference in living conditions, the penetration into leading posts (mainly in the soviets) of careerist elements who are intrinsically alien to us, and the beginnings of psychological degeneration among a certain part of the old Communists. Keywords:average communists; newspaper Pravda ; october revolution; Soviet power; White-Guard press
This chapter elaborates the articles published in the Newspaper Obskaya zhizn' from January t... more This chapter elaborates the articles published in the Newspaper Obskaya zhizn' from January to August 1912. It commences with the article 'The Coming Election-Campaign', and ends with 'Review of the Journal Russkoe bogatstvo '. Some other articles discussed in this chapter are 'The Parliamentary Elections in Germany', 'The Harvest-Failure and Russian Industry', 'Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin (Born 20 May 1799, Died 29 January 1837)', 'A Siberian Zemstvo and the Siberian Press', and 'Review of the Journals Russkoe bogatstvo (January) and Sovremennyi mir (February)'. Keywords:Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin; Obskaya zhizn' ; Russkoe bogatstvo ; Siberian Zemstvo ; Sovremennyi mir
This chapter talks about a draft circular-letter of the central committee of the RKP(B), prepared... more This chapter talks about a draft circular-letter of the central committee of the RKP(B), prepared by E.A. Preobrazhensky, concerning the question of the struggle against Bureaucratism and material inequality in the Party. Recently, a growing alienation has been evident in the ranks of the Party between rank-and-file party-members and Communists in responsible positions. For the sake of restoring healthy party-relations and more skilfully attracting young Communists into party-work, the Central Committee considers it necessary to implement the measures to strengthen party-discipline. The chapter lists the measures implemented by the Central Committee including, as often as possible to summon general meetings of party-members, with the obligatory attendance of all responsible workers in the organisation. Keywords:bureaucratism; Central Committee; communists; E.A. Preobrazhensky; material inequality; RKP
This chapter elaborates the articles published in the Newspaper Obskaya zhizn' from January t... more This chapter elaborates the articles published in the Newspaper Obskaya zhizn' from January to August 1912. It commences with the article 'The Coming Election-Campaign', and ends with 'Review of the Journal Russkoe bogatstvo '. Some other articles discussed in this chapter are 'The Parliamentary Elections in Germany', 'The Harvest-Failure and Russian Industry', 'Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin (Born 20 May 1799, Died 29 January 1837)', 'A Siberian Zemstvo and the Siberian Press', and 'Review of the Journals Russkoe bogatstvo (January) and Sovremennyi mir (February)'. Keywords:Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin; Obskaya zhizn' ; Russkoe bogatstvo ; Siberian Zemstvo ; Sovremennyi mir
This chapter discusses the Article "A Congress is Necessary", Published in the Journal ... more This chapter discusses the Article "A Congress is Necessary", Published in the Journal Kommunist . The lively debates at the recently-concluded Urals Regional Conference of Communist Party- which was distinguished by a large multitude of people - involved a discussion of the general policies of our Soviet centres and of economic policy in particular, which is the same thing as the policies of the Central Committee of the Party. The article presents the resolution that was accepted by everyone at the Conference with nine abstentions. It discusses one of them concerning the demand for the prompt convocation of a broad party-congress. In his polemical feuilletons directed against the position of the Left- Communists - which contain some very grand discoveries or, to put it more precisely, inventions about state-capitalism in Soviet Russia - comrade Lenin refers to the publishers of Kommunist as a tiny group. Keywords:A Congress is Necessary; Communist Party; Comrade Lenin; Kommunist ; Soviet Russia; Urals Regional Conference
This chapter talks about a draft circular-letter of the central committee of the RKP(B), prepared... more This chapter talks about a draft circular-letter of the central committee of the RKP(B), prepared by E.A. Preobrazhensky, concerning the question of the struggle against Bureaucratism and material inequality in the Party. Recently, a growing alienation has been evident in the ranks of the Party between rank-and-file party-members and Communists in responsible positions. For the sake of restoring healthy party-relations and more skilfully attracting young Communists into party-work, the Central Committee considers it necessary to implement the measures to strengthen party-discipline. The chapter lists the measures implemented by the Central Committee including, as often as possible to summon general meetings of party-members, with the obligatory attendance of all responsible workers in the organisation. Keywords:bureaucratism; Central Committee; communists; E.A. Preobrazhensky; material inequality; RKP
This chapter talks about a draft circular-letter of the central committee of the RKP(B), prepared... more This chapter talks about a draft circular-letter of the central committee of the RKP(B), prepared by E.A. Preobrazhensky, concerning the question of the struggle against Bureaucratism and material inequality in the Party. Recently, a growing alienation has been evident in the ranks of the Party between rank-and-file party-members and Communists in responsible positions. For the sake of restoring healthy party-relations and more skilfully attracting young Communists into party-work, the Central Committee considers it necessary to implement the measures to strengthen party-discipline. The chapter lists the measures implemented by the Central Committee including, as often as possible to summon general meetings of party-members, with the obligatory attendance of all responsible workers in the organisation. Keywords:bureaucratism; Central Committee; communists; E.A. Preobrazhensky; material inequality; RKP
This chapter presents a report submitted by E.A. Preobrazhensky concerning mobilisation of the po... more This chapter presents a report submitted by E.A. Preobrazhensky concerning mobilisation of the population of the province for the struggle against Denikin. He was the Plenipotentiary of the VTsIK and responsible representative of the Central Committee of the RKP(B) in Orel Province. The report listed the reasons that made the trade-union mobilisation of thirty percent of Communist men impossible to accomplish. Keywords:E.A. Preobrazhensky; mobilisation
This chapter talks about the articles published in the Newspaper Pravda in September-October 1919... more This chapter talks about the articles published in the Newspaper Pravda in September-October 1919. It describes the lessons of Mamontov, and a question: when will the revolution begin in Europe? Preobrazhensky has no intention of making any prediction concerning the time within which the revolution must be completed in the capitalist countries of the West. He intends to answer a different question: How long is it possible for the revolution not to occur in the West?. Keywords:Europe; Mamontov; newspaper Pravda ; Preobrazhensky; revolution
We discuss for the concept of promises within a framework that can be applied to either humans or... more We discuss for the concept of promises within a framework that can be applied to either humans or technology. We compare promises to the more established notion of obligations and find promises to be both simpler and more effective at reducing uncertainty in behavioural outcomes. * Jan Bergstra acknowledges support from NWO reasearch grant Symbiosis.
We discuss for the concept of promises within a framework that can be applied to either humans or... more We discuss for the concept of promises within a framework that can be applied to either humans or technology. We compare promises to the more established notion of obligations and find promises to be both simpler and more effective at reducing uncertainty in behavioural outcomes. * Jan Bergstra acknowledges support from NWO reasearch grant Symbiosis.
We discuss for the concept of promises within a framework that can be applied to either humans or... more We discuss for the concept of promises within a framework that can be applied to either humans or technology. We compare promises to the more established notion of obligations and find promises to be both simpler and more effective at reducing uncertainty in behavioural outcomes. * Jan Bergstra acknowledges support from NWO reasearch grant Symbiosis.
... a coherent answer. For the rest, what remains are the voices of protest, muted or strident, d... more ... a coherent answer. For the rest, what remains are the voices of protest, muted or strident, despairing or resigned, whether of Heidegger, Ellul, Walter Benjamin and the Frankfurt School, or Hannah Arendt. The problem, as we ...
This chapter presents a Preobrazhensky's letter to V.I. Lenin Concerning K.B. Radek's Spe... more This chapter presents a Preobrazhensky's letter to V.I. Lenin Concerning K.B. Radek's Speeches on the War with Poland and Its Press-Coverage. Preobrazhensky suggests that they put an end to indecency on the matter of 'patriotism'. Radek has exaggerated 'national war' in his speeches. Today in Agitrosta, Bergman included an indecent article about true Russian people who love the fatherland. What will they end up writing in Chukhlom? He asks Lenin's permission to give direction to newspaper-editors, especially those in the provinces. Keywords:K.B. Radek's speeches; national war; Poland; Preobrazhensky; V.I. Lenin
This chapter considers interpretations of the globalization process along a continuum ranging fro... more This chapter considers interpretations of the globalization process along a continuum ranging from "realist" emphasis upon sovereignty in the interstate system to "idealist" projections of cosmopolitan citizenship and even global government. The work of Jürgen Habermas is taken to be the most comprehensive via media between the "extreme" positions. In The Postnational Constellation, Habermas relates morality to ethics in explaining the potential for, but also the current limitations upon, cosmopolitan projects. The example of the European Union demonstrates the possibility for politics to "catch up" with globalizing markets. Introduction: Globalization and Political Ethics in General In a discussion of "globalization and political ethics," it seems appropriate to begin with "globalization," which is the easier term to define. Globalization involves "the increasing scope and intensity of commercial, communicative, and exchange relations beyond national borders"
This chapter talks about the articles published in the newspaper Pravda in September-December 192... more This chapter talks about the articles published in the newspaper Pravda in September-December 1920. It includes the articles of 'The Average Communist', the article of 'The Social Basis of the October Revolution', and the article of 'A Straw for the Drowning White Guards'. The psychological isolation of average Communists from the leading partygroups, and the isolation of leading groups from the proletarian masses - these are unquestionable facts. There are several causes. Besides what was said at the outset, it is necessary to point to the inattention of responsible comrades to the education of rank-and-file Communists, the difference in living conditions, the penetration into leading posts (mainly in the soviets) of careerist elements who are intrinsically alien to us, and the beginnings of psychological degeneration among a certain part of the old Communists. Keywords:average communists; newspaper Pravda ; october revolution; Soviet power; White-Guard press
This chapter elaborates the articles published in the Newspaper Obskaya zhizn' from January t... more This chapter elaborates the articles published in the Newspaper Obskaya zhizn' from January to August 1912. It commences with the article 'The Coming Election-Campaign', and ends with 'Review of the Journal Russkoe bogatstvo '. Some other articles discussed in this chapter are 'The Parliamentary Elections in Germany', 'The Harvest-Failure and Russian Industry', 'Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin (Born 20 May 1799, Died 29 January 1837)', 'A Siberian Zemstvo and the Siberian Press', and 'Review of the Journals Russkoe bogatstvo (January) and Sovremennyi mir (February)'. Keywords:Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin; Obskaya zhizn' ; Russkoe bogatstvo ; Siberian Zemstvo ; Sovremennyi mir
This chapter talks about a draft circular-letter of the central committee of the RKP(B), prepared... more This chapter talks about a draft circular-letter of the central committee of the RKP(B), prepared by E.A. Preobrazhensky, concerning the question of the struggle against Bureaucratism and material inequality in the Party. Recently, a growing alienation has been evident in the ranks of the Party between rank-and-file party-members and Communists in responsible positions. For the sake of restoring healthy party-relations and more skilfully attracting young Communists into party-work, the Central Committee considers it necessary to implement the measures to strengthen party-discipline. The chapter lists the measures implemented by the Central Committee including, as often as possible to summon general meetings of party-members, with the obligatory attendance of all responsible workers in the organisation. Keywords:bureaucratism; Central Committee; communists; E.A. Preobrazhensky; material inequality; RKP
This chapter elaborates the articles published in the Newspaper Obskaya zhizn' from January t... more This chapter elaborates the articles published in the Newspaper Obskaya zhizn' from January to August 1912. It commences with the article 'The Coming Election-Campaign', and ends with 'Review of the Journal Russkoe bogatstvo '. Some other articles discussed in this chapter are 'The Parliamentary Elections in Germany', 'The Harvest-Failure and Russian Industry', 'Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin (Born 20 May 1799, Died 29 January 1837)', 'A Siberian Zemstvo and the Siberian Press', and 'Review of the Journals Russkoe bogatstvo (January) and Sovremennyi mir (February)'. Keywords:Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin; Obskaya zhizn' ; Russkoe bogatstvo ; Siberian Zemstvo ; Sovremennyi mir
This chapter discusses the Article "A Congress is Necessary", Published in the Journal ... more This chapter discusses the Article "A Congress is Necessary", Published in the Journal Kommunist . The lively debates at the recently-concluded Urals Regional Conference of Communist Party- which was distinguished by a large multitude of people - involved a discussion of the general policies of our Soviet centres and of economic policy in particular, which is the same thing as the policies of the Central Committee of the Party. The article presents the resolution that was accepted by everyone at the Conference with nine abstentions. It discusses one of them concerning the demand for the prompt convocation of a broad party-congress. In his polemical feuilletons directed against the position of the Left- Communists - which contain some very grand discoveries or, to put it more precisely, inventions about state-capitalism in Soviet Russia - comrade Lenin refers to the publishers of Kommunist as a tiny group. Keywords:A Congress is Necessary; Communist Party; Comrade Lenin; Kommunist ; Soviet Russia; Urals Regional Conference
This chapter talks about a draft circular-letter of the central committee of the RKP(B), prepared... more This chapter talks about a draft circular-letter of the central committee of the RKP(B), prepared by E.A. Preobrazhensky, concerning the question of the struggle against Bureaucratism and material inequality in the Party. Recently, a growing alienation has been evident in the ranks of the Party between rank-and-file party-members and Communists in responsible positions. For the sake of restoring healthy party-relations and more skilfully attracting young Communists into party-work, the Central Committee considers it necessary to implement the measures to strengthen party-discipline. The chapter lists the measures implemented by the Central Committee including, as often as possible to summon general meetings of party-members, with the obligatory attendance of all responsible workers in the organisation. Keywords:bureaucratism; Central Committee; communists; E.A. Preobrazhensky; material inequality; RKP
This chapter talks about a draft circular-letter of the central committee of the RKP(B), prepared... more This chapter talks about a draft circular-letter of the central committee of the RKP(B), prepared by E.A. Preobrazhensky, concerning the question of the struggle against Bureaucratism and material inequality in the Party. Recently, a growing alienation has been evident in the ranks of the Party between rank-and-file party-members and Communists in responsible positions. For the sake of restoring healthy party-relations and more skilfully attracting young Communists into party-work, the Central Committee considers it necessary to implement the measures to strengthen party-discipline. The chapter lists the measures implemented by the Central Committee including, as often as possible to summon general meetings of party-members, with the obligatory attendance of all responsible workers in the organisation. Keywords:bureaucratism; Central Committee; communists; E.A. Preobrazhensky; material inequality; RKP
This chapter presents a report submitted by E.A. Preobrazhensky concerning mobilisation of the po... more This chapter presents a report submitted by E.A. Preobrazhensky concerning mobilisation of the population of the province for the struggle against Denikin. He was the Plenipotentiary of the VTsIK and responsible representative of the Central Committee of the RKP(B) in Orel Province. The report listed the reasons that made the trade-union mobilisation of thirty percent of Communist men impossible to accomplish. Keywords:E.A. Preobrazhensky; mobilisation
This chapter talks about the articles published in the Newspaper Pravda in September-October 1919... more This chapter talks about the articles published in the Newspaper Pravda in September-October 1919. It describes the lessons of Mamontov, and a question: when will the revolution begin in Europe? Preobrazhensky has no intention of making any prediction concerning the time within which the revolution must be completed in the capitalist countries of the West. He intends to answer a different question: How long is it possible for the revolution not to occur in the West?. Keywords:Europe; Mamontov; newspaper Pravda ; Preobrazhensky; revolution
We discuss for the concept of promises within a framework that can be applied to either humans or... more We discuss for the concept of promises within a framework that can be applied to either humans or technology. We compare promises to the more established notion of obligations and find promises to be both simpler and more effective at reducing uncertainty in behavioural outcomes. * Jan Bergstra acknowledges support from NWO reasearch grant Symbiosis.
We discuss for the concept of promises within a framework that can be applied to either humans or... more We discuss for the concept of promises within a framework that can be applied to either humans or technology. We compare promises to the more established notion of obligations and find promises to be both simpler and more effective at reducing uncertainty in behavioural outcomes. * Jan Bergstra acknowledges support from NWO reasearch grant Symbiosis.
We discuss for the concept of promises within a framework that can be applied to either humans or... more We discuss for the concept of promises within a framework that can be applied to either humans or technology. We compare promises to the more established notion of obligations and find promises to be both simpler and more effective at reducing uncertainty in behavioural outcomes. * Jan Bergstra acknowledges support from NWO reasearch grant Symbiosis.
... a coherent answer. For the rest, what remains are the voices of protest, muted or strident, d... more ... a coherent answer. For the rest, what remains are the voices of protest, muted or strident, despairing or resigned, whether of Heidegger, Ellul, Walter Benjamin and the Frankfurt School, or Hannah Arendt. The problem, as we ...
This chapter presents a Preobrazhensky's letter to V.I. Lenin Concerning K.B. Radek's Spe... more This chapter presents a Preobrazhensky's letter to V.I. Lenin Concerning K.B. Radek's Speeches on the War with Poland and Its Press-Coverage. Preobrazhensky suggests that they put an end to indecency on the matter of 'patriotism'. Radek has exaggerated 'national war' in his speeches. Today in Agitrosta, Bergman included an indecent article about true Russian people who love the fatherland. What will they end up writing in Chukhlom? He asks Lenin's permission to give direction to newspaper-editors, especially those in the provinces. Keywords:K.B. Radek's speeches; national war; Poland; Preobrazhensky; V.I. Lenin
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