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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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How capital separated workers from control over the potentials of science Kevin Thomas Mar 29, 2025 [Drawing by April Burke ] The knowledge, judgement and will which, even though to a small extent, are exercised by the independent peasant or handicraftsman […] are faculties now required only for the [manufacturing] workshop as a whole. The…
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The birth of Modernity’s Meaning Crisis and two responses to it The Living Philosophy Dec 09, 2021 In the 19th and 20th centuries, modernity came into its fullness and with this maturation, the vestiges of the religious worldview began to fall away revealing a crisis of meaning that we’ve come to call Nihilism. This emergence of…
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By Nietzsche, Steinbeck, Pope and Others The Humanities Library Mar 22, 2025 55 With the world doing its best to wear us down at the moment, I’ve been having a rummage around the bookshelves for a little tonic. The resulting anthology this week brings together voices from across time and disciplines, each grappling with what…
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This article is more than 6 years old The author of global bestseller Sapiens is back, with a self-help guide for a bewildering age – and its sweeping statements are peppered with truly mind-expanding observations Helen LewisWed 15 Aug 2018 07.30 BSTShare134 Yuval Noah Harari’s career is a publishing fairytale. An obscure Israeli academic writes a…
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Saturday 22 March 2025, by Faraz Ahmad#socialtags ShareFacebookTwitterWhatsAppBlogger Prakash Karat, the coordinator of the Politburo and Central Committee of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) has circulated the Draft resolution for the 24th party Congress of the CPM scheduled next month in Madurai, Tamil Nadu. In the section called ‘Political Line’, the draft states that the 11-year-old…
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