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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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A interview with Tariq Ali, the ‘street fighting man’, about stalled revolutions, the Emergency, challenges of independent publishing, and cancel culture. Manaswini Sen Mar 23, 2025 · 09:00 am Read in App Nineteen-sixty-seven was a turbulent year. After the Arab World was shaken by the shocking defeat in the June War against Israel, Tariq Ali…
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Reflections in Honor of the Twentieth Anniversary of Levins and Lewontin’s The Dialectical Biologist by Brett Clark and Richard York (May 01, 2005) Topics: Marxist Ecology Brett Clark is a graduate student in sociology at the University of Oregon and coauthor of “Ecological Imperialism: The Curse of Capitalism,” Socialist Register 2004. Richard York teaches sociology at the University of Oregon. His research, which focuses…
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by Helena Sheehan (Oct 01, 2021) Topics: Ecology History Marxist Ecology Places: Europe United Kingdom Cover of A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J. B. S. Haldane by Samanth Subramanian. Helena Sheehan is professor emerita at Dublin City University, where she taught history of ideas and media studies. She is also the author of several books, including Marxism and the Philosophy of…
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By John Riddell Published 21 March, 2025 MastodonFacebookTwitterEmail Simultaneously published on Communis and LINKS. Introductory note by Paul Le Blanc What follows is a chapter from a forthcoming volume by John Riddell entitled Lenin’s Comintern Revisited, to be published later this year by Brill as part of the Historical Materialism Book Series. (A year after its publication in hardback, the book…
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Republicans Speak Trump; Democrats, Esperanto Posted on Monday, Mar 24, 2025 6:00AM by Michael Liss by Michael Liss It is more proper that law should govern than any one of the citizens. —Aristotle, Politics Aristotle was an optimist. Try to visualize an old Greek guy in a himation as a talking head on one of the Sunday shows. He’s…
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