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Claustropolis: 1984
“Claustropolis: 1984” is excerpted from a forthcoming novel. In Bhopal, I could lie low. In Bhopal, there would be instructions for me. Because I had been told not to take the express, I traveled on a local, in an unreserved bogie. The whiskey was Director’s Special, a parting gift from Gupta’s people. I didn’t even…
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BY MARIA POPOVA We are born into the certitude of our eventual death. Every once in a while, something — perhaps an encounter with a robin’s egg, perhaps a poem — staggers us with the awful, awe-filled wonder of aliveness, the sheer luck of it against the overwhelming cosmic odds of nonexistence. But alloyed with the awe is…
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by Harry Magdoff, John Bellamy Foster and Robert W. McChesney (May 01, 2024) Topics: Capitalism Marxism Movements Political Economy Revolutions Socialism Places: Global From Harry Magdoff, John Bellamy Foster, and Robert W. McChesney, “Socialism: A Time for Retreat?,” Monthly Review 52, no. 4 (September 2000): 1–7. Some wags claim that it is the conservatives who fear socialism, while the radicals believe that capitalism will last forever. Conservatives, they say,…
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-சாவித்திரி கண்ணன் June 4, 2024 பத்தாண்டுகள் மக்கள் விரோத, படுபாதக ஆட்சி நடத்தியும், மீண்டும் ஆட்சிக் கட்டிலில் அமரும் வாய்ப்பை பாஜக பெற்றுள்ளது! எதிர்கட்சிகள் மீது மக்கள் முழு நம்பிக்கை கொள்ள முடியாமல் இருக்கும் காரணங்கள் என்ன..? தனிப்பட்ட முறையில் ஒரு மக்கள் தலைவருக்கான எதிர்பார்ப்புகளை ராகுல் உணர்ந்துள்ளாரா..? தற்போதுள்ள ஒரே ஆறுதல் தனிப் பெரும் மெஜாரிட்டி பாஜகவிற்கு கிடைக்கவில்லை! கடந்த இரு நாடாளுமன்றத் தேர்தல்களைக் காட்டிலும், காங்கிரஸ் கொஞ்சம் முன்னேறி இருக்கிறது என்றாலும், பாஜக…
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Originally published: The Socialist Science Collective on November 7, 2020 by Gaither Stewart (more by The Socialist Science Collective) (Posted Nov 12, 2020) Capitalism, Marxism, MovementsGermanyNewswire Bertold Brecht put into everyday practice Marxist collectivism and dialectical materialism in his art as few other Western writers have ever achieved. Despite accusations of avidness for money, the German poet and playwright belied any…
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The Russian writer’s novel “Life and Fate”—often compared with “War and Peace”—was first published in English in the mid-1980s. But only now is interest taking off among a wider public By Robert Chandler September 23, 2006 It is easy for a translator to exaggerate the importance of what he is working on. In the early 1980s,…
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