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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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  • Why I believe what I believe about the Chinese Revolution: The Second Newsletter (2024)

    By Vijay Prashad (Posted Jan 12, 2024) Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research  on January 11, 2024 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  Dear friends, Greetings from Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Late last year, a colleague sent me a letter decrying some of my writings about China, notably the last newsletter of 2023. This newsletter is my response to him. ** The situation…

  • Lenin for the New Year

    O riginally published: Counterfire  on December 28, 2023 by Dominic Alexander (more by Counterfire)  |  (Posted Jan 03, 2024) n 21 January it will be one hundred years since Lenin’s death. While many have tried to bury his legacy and ideas, revolutionary socialists need still to learn the lessons of his leadership of the Bolshevik party, which led to the first workers’ revolution…

  • Lenin, state and revolution: an introduction

    tion: Originally published: Counterfire  on January 15, 2024 by Dragan Plavšić (more by Counterfire)  |  (Posted Jan 17, 2024) One of the defining moments of Lenin’s political life was the day in 1914, at the outbreak of the First World War, when news reached him that the German Social Democratic Party (as socialist parties were then called) had voted in the Reichstag to…

  • The theoretical significance of Lenin’s “Imperialism”

    By Prabhat Patnaik (Posted Jan 20, 2024) Originally published: Peoples Democracy  on January 21, 2024 (more by Peoples Democracy) The significance of Lenin’s Imperialism lay in the fact that it totally revolutionized the perception of the revolution. Marx and Engels had already visualised the possibility of colonial and dependent countries having revolutions of their own even before the proletarian revolution in the metropolis, but these…

  • The Economists Who Found the Richest People of All Time

    Branko Milanovic and Guido Alfani study inequality over the course of human history. The results are not good. Timothy Noah/January 3, 2024 ILLUSTRATION BY MARTIN ELFMAN https://blink.net/iframe.html In late September 1066, William of Normandy asked his second cousin, Alan Rufus (en français: Alain le Roux), to join the Normans’ fateful war party against the Saxons. Rufus…

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