Abstract

Editorials

This article discusses several sociopolitical issues. A funny thing happened on the way to the end of history. Neoconservative theorists proposed in the late 1980s that the global struggle apparent for 200 years screeched to a stop with the fall of Soviet-bloc governments in Europe, henceforth, free-market capitalism would advance unhindered by revolts of the oppressed. The electoral victory of the Socialist Party in Hungary is only the latest in a series of defeats for Western-style capitalism imposed on the European East. In another issue, among political activists, and among the press and general public, issues come and go. Thus at the same moment that Randall Robinson's fast on behalf of Haitian democracy became a national rallying point, two other eloquent and equally moving acts of political witness went little noticed.