How Ideology is Policing the Crisis of European Capitalism

Christian Fuchs (original source: http://fuchs.uti.at/860/)

Written for the Greek magazine ΒΑΒΥΛΩΝΙΑ (Babylonia)

 

Times of crisis are times, where ideologies tend to flourish. We can take the current ongoing crisis as an example.

 

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