The divergence between reality and axioms generates chimerical categories, unrealistic in life, such as the “free market economy,” “rational economic agents” or the “state of balance.” These are hypothetical abstractions at best, but more often they are propaganda clich's. They are not found in nature and therefore are useless in practice.
The divergence between reality and axioms generates chimerical categories, unrealistic in life, such as the “free market economy,” “rational economic agents” or the “state of balance.” These are hypothetical abstractions at best, but more often they are propaganda clich's. They are not found in nature and therefore are useless in practice.
When the Baltic countries entered NATO and the European Union a couple of years ago, many thought it was the end of the centuries-old "red line." Euro-Atlantic organizations had crossed into the former Russian and Soviet empires.
In September 2004, the Russian city of Novgorod hosted an international conference entitled Russia at the Turn of the Century: Hopes and Reality. Its organizers were the RIA Novosti news agency, the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, Russia in Global Affairs, and The Moscow Times.