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Socialism and the Indian Constitution (part of a series of short volumes that Neera Chandoke and I are editing for the Centre for Equity Studies
Rooted in anti-colonial struggle, Indian socialism, despite its limitations, helped progress towards an egalitarian society. Can that pathway be reclaimed? India’s immensely respected economist and public intellectual Prabhat Patnaik masterfully assembles in the pages of a short monograph the sweep of India’s post-colonial economic history. This is in his forthcoming Socialism and the Indian Constitution (part of
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One of the most prominent biologists and important popularizers of science of the 20th century, J.B.S. Haldane writes the preface to Engels’ ‘Dialectics of Nature’ on its first English-language publication. ‘Preface to Engels’ Dialectics of Nature’ by J.B.S. Haldane. International Publishers, New York, 1940. MARXISM has a two-fold bearing on science. In the first place Marxists study…
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“Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness – and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different…
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Jason Stanley joins The Chris Hedges Report to give proper context to what fascism means and how the Trump administration’s second term could really mean the completion of the American fascist state. Chris Hedges Mar 26, 2025 This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. Ever since the first Donald Trump administration, the word “fascism” has…
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Philosopheasy Mar 28, 2025 Economist and former Greek finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, presents a radical yet surprisingly intuitive proposal for restructuring the global economy. Drawing on his experience battling the Eurozone’s financial powers during the Greek debt crisis, Varoufakis argues that our current economic system is not merely broken, but evolving into something he describes…
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Kate Mackenzie , Tim Sahay When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, European, and especially German, industry was left in the lurch. Much of the 150 billion cubic meters of natural gas piped from Russia each year had to be quickly replaced with energy from elsewhere. All the stops were pulled out: nuclear and coal power…
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