Category Politics & Society

Politics isn’t just about elections—it’s about power, ideology, and social movements. Discover how political structures and activism shape society and social change.

Why Do We Believe What We Believe? Sociology, Knowledge, and the Crisis of Truth

Knowledge Is Power - Chernobyl after 40 Years

Forty years after Chernobyl, the reactor sits under a vast steel sarcophagus constructed to contain what could not be unseen. The facts eventually surfaced - but at what cost, and why did it take so long? Drawing on Mannheim, Fricker, Arendt, and Oreskes, this article asks what the sociology of knowledge reveals about the structural conditions under which truth is managed, suppressed, and contested - from Soviet nuclear cover-ups to contemporary populism.

Beyond Weber, Marx, and Orwell: The Rise of Digital Neofeudalism

Digital Feudalism

Has the modern world outgrown Weber’s iron cage, Marx’s alienation, and Orwell’s surveillance state—only to enter a new form of control? In an era where tech monopolies act as digital landlords, individuals no longer own but rent, their lives dictated by algorithmic oversight and data extraction. Is this progress, or have we simply traded one system of domination for another?

Karl Marx: Misunderstood, Not a Bogeyman

Karl Marx

Karl Marx is one of the most polarising thinkers in modern history. Depending on whom you ask, he is either a prophet of workers’ liberation or the architect of totalitarian nightmares. The media often presents Marx as a bogeyman—a figure…