Vladimir Moss

The starting point is a characteristic of the effective factors of globalization trends and a characteristic of the form of these trends around which the worldwide movement contesting this form is developing. The author refers to the contemporary current of economic thought to the New Political Economy of Globalization, carrying out a critical partition of the standpoint of this current

After the Norman conquest of England, larg numbers of Englishmen emigrated to Constantinople, and were given lands in Crimea and the Azov sea. Loyal warriors of the Emperor of Constantinople, they lived for several generations in his service.

Just as sin multiplied in the prediluvial world, so did its punishment. The Flood came and destroyed the whole of humanity and animal life with the exception of Noah and his sons and those who entered with them into the Ark. And Paradise, which before had been at least visible from the earth, was taken completely away from it…

The year 1859, according to M.S. Anderson, "can be seen as the beginning of a new era in intellectual life"; for it "gave birth not merely to the Origin of Species but also to Marx's Critique of Political Economy and Wagner's Tristan und Isolde".1 If eighteenth-century Deism had banished God to the heavens, leaving for Him only the function of Creator, Darwinism deprived Him even of this function, ascribing all creation to the blind will of nature working entirely through chance. This article describes some of the fierce polemics surrounding the idea, its distinguished critics, and its connections with racism and the idea of progress.

The essence of socialism is social engineering, the attempt by education and legislation to remould man made in the image and likeness of God into another, humanist model of perfection, that of the eighteenthcentury Enlightenment. The problem is: the attempt to improve man in this way always ends in despising him and even killing him. For as George Bernard Shaw said in his brilliant play Pygmalion (1913), "Galatea never does quite like Pygmalion: his relation to her is too godlike to be altogether agreeable." Moreover, human nature is a stubborn thing; without the grace of God it simply refuses to be changed. And the attempt to change man without God usually makes him worse, not better. This is particularly true of that vital aspect of human nature and human relations that is sexuality. God not only made man in His own image; He made him "male and female" (Genesis 1.26); the woman was to be man's helper and like him, but also in subjection to him (Genesis 2.20, 3.16. But from the eighteenth century Enlightenment thinkers and activists tried to construct a model of society in which the difference between men and women would be, if not invisible, at any rate insignificant, unimportant.

Catholicism, the religion of Leninism logically leads to the worship of one man as the infallible incarnation of the one truth. The truth is History, the vanguard of History is the Party, and the leader of the Party is the one true interpreter of its Will. All those who oppose him are deviants who miss the mark, being consigned, in Trotsky's phrase, "to the dustbin of History". Although this teaching had always been implicit in Leninism, and although the Tenth Congress in 1921 had gone a long way, through its banning of all factionalism, to prepare the way for its universal acceptance, it was not until the rise of Stalin as dictator that it was impressed upon the hearts as well as the minds of the Bolshevik faithful.

is a senior clergyman of the East American diocese of ROCOR-MP, that branch of World Orthodoxy that has led its flock out of the True Church (ROCOR before 2007) and into the arms of the heretical (sergianist-ecumenist) "Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate", as it likes to call itself. In a recent blog-article1, he has attacked those Orthodox who believe that the anti-covid vaccines are "the mark of the beast". I do not believe that these vaccines are the mark of the beast, but I sympathize with those who do-much more than with Fr. Gregory, whose argument is not only fundamentally unsound but breathes the spirit of Pharisaism.

In his secret speech to the Communist Party in 1956 Khrushchev condemned Stalin's "cult of personality". Unfortunately, the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate paid little heed to this admonition-although it obeyed the Communist Party in all other things. Let us look at the stages of this church cult.

Modern developments in attitudes to human beings-notably, the idea that human beings are simply extremely sophisticated machines that can be programmed and reprogrammed at will (perhaps by "vaccine" injections), and that free will is in fact an illusion-are so important that it is necessary to inquire where they came from. The answer is that they came from both East and West, both from the Communist East (no surprise there) and from the Capitalist West (more surprisingly) in the years after World War Two. It is there, on both sides of the Cold War, that the psychological revolution-no less than the political revolutions that had taken place in the prewar decades-took its beginning.