In Linda Grant’s ‘When I Lived in Modern Times’, glimpses of the origins of the seemingly intractable Ramachandra Guha 7 hours ago Trawling through one of Bangalore’s wonderful second-hand bookstores, I came across a novel called When I Lived in Modern Times. I had not heard of the author, Linda Grant, but the title intrigued me,…

BYNEIL LARSEN Cloaked in an impenetrable jargon, “decoloniality” dehistoricizes and culturalizes colonialism. It’s a political and intellectual dead end for socialists. Oil painting of the capture of Incan emperor Atahualpa and the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire in 1532, by Peruvian painter Juan Lepiani, circa 1920–27. (Lima Art Museum via Wikimedia Commons) Our new…

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Phenomenal World On Monday, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Ram temple in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh, marking a triumph for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and far-right Hindu groups including the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). The temple was built on the site of the Babri Masjid, a 16th-century mosque illegally destroyed by 150,000…

by Gabriel Rockhill and Zhao Dingqi (Dec 01, 2023) Topics: Ideology  Imperialism  Marxism  Movements  State Repression Places: Americas  United States Gabriel Rockhill is executive director of the Critical Theory Workshop/Atelier de Théorie Critique and professor of philosophy at Villanova University in Pennsylvania. He is currently completing his fifth single-author book, The Intellectual World War: Marxism versus the Imperial Theory Industry (Monthly Review Press, forthcoming). Zhao Dingqi is an assistant researcher at…