The Technocratic Socialism of Otto Neurath
The Austrian economist and philosopher Otto Neurath devised elaborate ideas for a democratically planned economy. They are a monument to the most optimistic strands of the interwar socialist movement.
7 Articles by: Gareth Dale
Gareth Dale teaches at Brunel University. His publications include books on Karl Polanyi, green growth, international migration, and revolutions.
Karl Polanyi’s Great Transformation and the Countermovement to Capitalism
Media pundits hail the economist Karl Polanyi as a brilliant theorist of capitalism and a thinker for our time. In order to understand Polanyi’s ideas, however, we need to see him in the context of his own time: Europe’s “age of catastrophe” in the early twentieth century.
Neoliberals With Wind Farms
A few decades ago Europe’s Green Parties inspired hope. Today, not so much.
June 17, 1953
On this day in 1953, a strike in Berlin turned into a nationwide rebellion for workers’ power in East Germany.
Tales From the Cold War
A new crop of Cold War spy dramas revels in the thrill of crossing enemy lines more than depicting political realities.
What Reunification Wrought
East and West Germany reunified on October 3, 1990. But for most workers, the hopes of that day were dashed.
A World Without Borders
The refugee crisis only has one just solution: open borders.