What does it mean to be a global citizen? | openDemocracy
WEBFeb 13, 2013 · A global citizen is someone who identifies with being part of an emerging world community and whose actions contribute to building this community’s values and practices. Such a definition of ...
Communism and democracy – a living legacy | openDemocracy
WEBApr 27, 2018 · According to classical Marxism, liberal or “bourgeois” democracy is an instrument of class rule that serves to protect private property and to preserve the capitalist system. To create a ...
Home | openDemocracy
WEBopenDemocracy is an independent international media platform covering current affairs, ideas and culture. We seek to challenge power and encourage democratic debate
Ten things you should know about socialism | openDemocracy
WEBFeb 4, 2020 · 4. The U.S., Soviet Union, and China have more in common than you think. As capitalism emerged from feudalism in Europe in the 19th century, it advocated liberty, equality, fraternity, and ...
Six reasons why protest is so important for democracy
WEB3. In an electoral democracy, protest provides an essential voice for minority groups. The classic theorists of representational government recognised that universal suffrage and majority voting ...
War: justifiable or simply catastrophic? | openDemocracy
WEBAl Qaeda is a loose network confined to no particular country. Yemen is the latest focus of anxiety and attention. The Afghan war has created greater and more widespread hostility to the US and ...
Totalitarianism in the twentieth century and beyond
WEBAug 27, 2019 · In the late 1970s, the Czechoslovak critic of communism, Vaclav Havel, helped to develop another key piece of terminology, ‘post-totalitarianism’, to describe the contradictory world of ...
About openDemocracy
WEBopenDemocracy is an independent international media platform. We produce high-quality journalism which challenges power, inspires change and builds leadership among groups underrepresented in the ...
Conspiracy theories aside, there is something fishy about the Great ...
WEBAug 16, 2021 · The set of conspiracy theories around the Great Reset are nebulous and hard to pin down, but piecing them together gives us something like this: the Great Reset is the global elite’s plan to ...
The Russian Mafia and organised crime: how can this global force …
WEBOct 12, 2012 · The Russian mafia, like the Italian and to some extent the US groups, has combined street level visible crime such as human trafficking and drug smuggling with less visible white collar crimes ...