What Is Modernity and How Does It Work?

On paper the workers owned the economy but in practice they were work like dogs around the clock, writes Galena. The gulag system was a grotesque representation of what modernity means, she says. You can very quickly move up or down the ladder in either direction at any time and you can simply be kicked off the ladder entirely according to Stalinist rules. If you get one black mark on your permanent record then your life is over just like that said Galena.