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State socialismState competition & ImperialismThird World countries


CUBA’S “NEW PATH TO SOCIALISM”
STATE-ORGANIZED THIRD-WORLD CAPITALISM

The Cuban leadership has decided on far-reaching reforms. Promoting foreign
exchange–earning economic sectors and attracting foreign capital; committing
state-owned companies to profit-oriented production standards; dismissing at
least one million state employees; considerably expanding the small-scale
private sector and promoting private farmers; abolishing what remains of
state-guaranteed basic services as soon as possible. The government justifies
its list of measures by pointing to the country’s catastrophic budget situation,
which makes painful corrections unavoidable. At the same time, however, it
promises that these measures will “preserve socialism, strengthen it and make it
truly irreversible.” (Raúl Castro) GᴇɢᴇɴSᴛᴀɴᴅᴘᴜɴᴋᴛ takes the reforms as an
opportunity to critically assess the current end point as well as the general
intentions, barriers, contradictions, and negative progress of fifty years of
Cuban “socialism” — with an epilogue on Cuban friendship and enmity past and
present.
 * Read more about State-Organized Third-World Capitalism

Topic
Sovereignty & Constitutional stateState competition & ImperialismPeople &
NationPublic sphere


UKRAINE, GAZA — THE WARS OF 2023
BLOODY LESSONS ON THE FRUITS OF NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY — AND THE TERRIBLE WAY
POPULAR OPINION ABOUT IT IS FORMED

In wartime, the morality of bourgeois society is turned upside down. What people
must never do in peacetime — kill other people ---- they are now ordered to do.
The right to life, one of the inalienable rights protected by basic law, now
gives way to the duty to sacrifice one’s life for the state. This revaluation of
values makes war the ultimate moral challenge. It provokes the need for
justification, of all things.

 * Read more about Bloody lessons on the fruits of national sovereignty — and
   the terrible way popular opinion about it is formed

Topic
People & NationConstitution & Reason of state


“ANTI-RACISTS” VS. “RACISTS”
THE NON-RACIST CLASS STATE AND ITS MUTUALLY HOSTILE MORAL CRITICS

Racism no longer exists in a modern bourgeois polity in the form of a state’s
legal decree or permission to discriminate against sections of the population to
the point of eliminating them. There is no colonial privilege that legitimizes
ruling over ‘uncivilized’ peoples, no Nuremberg Laws that make citizenship
dependent on belonging to an Aryan master race entitled to dominate the world,
and no right to own people that lays down slavery as an integral part of the
political economy. — What is there instead?
 * Read more about The non-racist class state and its mutually hostile moral
   critics

Topic
People & NationState competition & ImperialismSovereignty & Constitutional state


TURMOIL IN THE HOME OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE
REMARKS ON HOW ISRAEL’S STATE CRISIS IS CONNECTED WITH THE SUCCESS OF ITS
NO-STATE SOLUTION FOR PALESTINE

For months now, a dispute has been raging in Israel acknowledged to be dividing
the nation and throwing the state into crisis. It has seized both the political
class democratically organized into parties, and large sections of the
population. On the surface, the issue is a reform of certain aspects of Israel’s
judicial system and, above all, the relation of the judicial to the executive
and legislative “powers,” especially in terms of the reciprocal veto rights of
the parliament and the Supreme Court. It is in fact clear to all those involved
in the national divide that the reform of the judiciary, while presenting a
significant change to the separation of state powers, is as such merely a part
and, above all, a symbol of a dispute that goes far beyond the question of how
the state is organized. What is it all about?
 * Read more about Remarks on how Israel’s state crisis is connected with the
   success of its no-state solution for Palestine

Topic
State competition & Imperialism


ON THE SIGNIFICANCE OF NUCLEAR DETERRENCE IN THE UKRAINE WAR

The question of what the war in Ukraine is all about, what’s at stake there, is
not asked in the West’s democratic public sphere (example: Germany), but rather
is outstripped by a politico-moral answer. To wit: the Kremlin is all about
conquering, suppressing democracy in Ukraine and in general, embarking on a new
Russian imperialism; the Supreme Commander-in-Chief wants personal power.
Ukraine is fighting to defend itself against illegal aggression and protect
democratic values. The NATO states are helping the victim of an attack that
violates international law, promoting the European peace order and the
rules-based world order overall. After a year and a half of war in Ukraine, the
world is more ideologically in order than it’s been for a long time. Experts and
government advisors of the two nuclear powers involved in Ukraine quite
seriously pose the question of what is at stake in Ukraine for each of them and
in general, and as professional partisans they give somewhat different answers.
In Russia, there is debate about the pros and cons of using nuclear weapons; in
the USA, there are firm views on this. Both are documented below in order to
draw some conclusions about the nature of the deterrent relationship between the
USA and Russia.
 * Read more about On the significance of nuclear deterrence in the Ukraine war

Topic
People & Nation


COLUMBINE
GUNS ARE A CITIZEN’S FREEDOM — GUN CONTROL MADE IN THE USA

Gun owners, like all Americans, see themselves as acknowledged personifications
of their state power, as incarnating what makes “America” what it is and needs
to be defended against all internal and external threats whether one owns a gun
or not. So un-American activities are more like what those people are up to who
want to ban gun ownership, thereby violating the rules governing the pursuit of
happiness.
 * Read more about Guns are a citizen’s freedom — Gun control made in the USA

Topic
People & NationConstitution & Reason of statePublic sphere


A DIFFERENT KIND OF HOMELAND SECURITY
THE AMERICAN BATTLE OVER ITS FAMILY VALUES

It is as if the US was looking to prove just how much freedom it has to go about
its work as a world power. At the same time that the American state is carrying
out a proxy war in Europe and bringing epochal change to the global economic
order, the American nation is entirely free to revolve around itself, arguing
bitterly about just how much freedom American women have to control their own
bodies. Of course, the occasion for this dispute is no small matter. After all,
with its decision in “Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization,” the Supreme
Court has overturned “Roe v.

 * Read more about The American battle over its family values

Topic
State competition & ImperialismWorld-power project Europe


UKRAINE IS BEING DEVASTATED, THE WEST IS STRUGGLING TO FIND THE RIGHT WAY TO
CONTINUE
SO BEGINS THE SECOND YEAR OF THE WAR

A year of war in Ukraine leaves the country looking accordingly. Last fall, the
destruction already caused by both sides started to include widespread Russian
missile and drone attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure. They target Ukraine's
combat and resilience capabilities, hitting often enough to make quite a few
parts of the country hardly inhabitable and challenge the viability of both its
economy and its rule. Despite all this, the Ukrainian government’s military goal
has not changed. It remains the sacred right of Ukrainian nationhood to achieve
complete territorial integrity of the country, reconquering all territories
annexed and occupied by Russia, including Crimea. Those in charge are also
certain that their people are willing to make the necessary sacrifices to be
liberated or reborn as a (Russian-)free nation at last, fully ‘anchored’ in the
European West. However, this ambitious claim is blatantly disproportionate to
the current military situation.
 * Read more about So Begins the Second Year of the War

Topic
State competition & ImperialismScience & Intellectual lifeCapital & Competition


HOW THE US WANTS TO MODERNIZE ITS IMPERIALISM

America’s money dominates world markets for commodities and capital. America’s
cyber industries dominate global communications. America’s navy controls the
world’s oceans. America’s strategic weapons can demolish any enemy’s strategic
potential as needed. The USA is on its way to making sure Russia is ostracized
around the world and its power destroyed. It is countering China’s efforts to
revise the prevailing world order by declaring a cold war of good guys —
democracies — against bad guys — autocrats.

So what’s missing?

 * Read more about How the US wants to modernize its imperialism

Topic
State competition & ImperialismConstitution & Reason of statePublic spherePeople
& NationSovereignty & Constitutional state


EDITORIAL

After a year of war in Ukraine, there are about as many Russian soldiers dead or
injured as reported for the “special military operation” a year ago. What for?
After the first year of war, Ukraine is devastated; the government has
sacrificed a significant portion of the population to its fight against the
Russian invasion. What for? A year after Chancellor Scholz’s “historical turning
point,” the West is surveying the costs of its anti-Russian intervention in
Ukraine. What is it all for?
 * Read more about Editorial

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TOPICS

 * World-power project Europe [9]
 * Wage relation [8]
 * Third World countries [13]
 * State support for the classes [15]
 * State socialism [3]
 * State competition & Imperialism [57]
 * Marxism [10]
 * Democracy [13]
 * Constitution & Reason of state [12]
 * People & Nation [26]
 * Public sphere [24]
 * State budget [3]
 * Sovereignty & Constitutional state [12]
 * Science & Intellectual life [8]
 * Capital & Competition [29]


BOOKS

 * The Case of Greece

 * The Democratic State

 * The Victory of Morality over Socialism

 * Psychology of the Private Individual

 * American power and its use

 * The U.S.A. — World Power Number One

 * Finance Capital (2nd revised edition)

 * Competition of Capitalists

 * Work and Wealth (2nd revised edition)