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One Hundred Days That Shook Eastern Europe: Voluntarism — Socialism's Infantile Disorder

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A hundred days toppled Eastern Europe's regimes. The real question isn't how they fell — it's how we stayed silent so long.

The Salman Rushdie Affair: A Satanic Game

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Khomeini's fatwa is politics before faith. The West inflates Rushdie's blood to forget Palestinian blood.

Perestroika in Arabic: Preliminaries

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Perestroika is not a renewed revolution, nor a bankruptcy — it is the attempted exit from Stalinist voluntarism.

14 July: The Revolution as Festival

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The Bastille fell to the armed people, not to the legislators. That is why the people's day is the Revolution's day.

14 July: Democracy as Revolution

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Democracy was taken, not given — wrested from the bourgeoisie, not bestowed by it.