The search for the “right line” or debates about the “agent of history” continues to shape the inner life of radical movements and consumes tremendous energies better spent organizing.
Election History articles on Democracy Chronicles
Here we cover how democracy has progressed through time in our highly suggested global election history coverage. Modern systems of democracy largely arose out of the Europe through the period at the end of the Middle Ages into the Reformation, the Age of Enlightenment, and the American and French Revolutions. However in reality, democratic decision making is an even more ancient invention and in many ways a fixture of nature . Also check out our section on World Democracy.
See First Presidential Campaign Ad in History From 1912
In 1912 America, the Democratic Party released the first Presidential campaign ad in human history
Strategic Choreography and the Inside/Outside Strategy (IOS)
The power of coalitions flows from the age-old political logic that rulers must divide to conquer and that we must unite and coordinate our fragmented and scattered forces to win.
On Emotions and Facts and the Evidence Within
After the Holocaust, the survivors truly believed that when the ‘world’ saw what had happened to them, surely it would never happen again. But it did… There is much work to be done by all of us to make those words a reality.
50 Years After Voting Rights Act Passage, Trouble Lingers
Despite progress made after Voting Rights Act made law 50 years ago, there still remains much to do
Things Don’t Always Get Better
Will we wake up in time and join forces against our common enemy before the pendulum swings back? Or will we continue on this insane roller coaster ride? Cause it looks like a big dip is coming. At least for some of us.
Europe’s Romani Mark Grim Anniversary Amid Repression
Remembrance of the Holocaust is time for continental soul searching for Europe’s Romani peoples
Racial Politics Under Microscope in New HBO Miniseries
History of racial politics in America subject of six part HBO miniseries by controversial director
The Fluidity of Meaning in the Realm of the Social
One important thing to remember is that the meaning of words – what they come to signify – needs to be understood in context. Meaning is always part of specific social and theoretical dynamics that condition the sense we give to words.
Angelina Jolie Working on Khmer Rouge Film Adaption
Khmer Rouge film called First They Killed My Father will be based on dissident’s tragic memoirs