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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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Party communism a political movement that captured the imagination, shaped societies but also repressed, persecuted, jailed, and murdered. Michael Brie. Information Series Online Publication Author Michael Brie Published March 2015 Ordering advice Only available online Never in history has a political movement so quickly captured the imagination of so many people and shaped so many…
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Confronting and renewing Lenin’s legacy on the centenary of his death Information Author Michael Brie … even the dead will not be safe from the enemy if he wins. And this enemy has not ceased to be victorious. –Walter Benjamin The Left has tossed Lenin’s corpse to the victors of history — both the Stalinists and…
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Defend Democracy PressThe Newsletter of The Delphi Initiative Website Excerpts: Crisis of Globalization, Crisis of the Left, and the Rise of the Far RightThe model of “globalization,” as a model of global capitalist domination, was based on the expansion of capitalist relations of production and distribution, along with their ideological and cultural superstructure, across most of the planet following the “collapse—suicide”…
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Interviewed by Michael Berry Issue 246, Winter 2023 Beijing Normal University, 2021. All photographs courtesy of Yu Hua. Yu Hua was born in 1960. He grew up in Haiyan County in the Zhejiang province of eastern China, at the height of the Cultural Revolution. His parents were both in the medical profession—his father a surgeon, his…
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