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There is a striking irony in the way Sitaram Yechury is being remembered today.
K A Shaji in Facebook Pinarayi Vijayan and the Kerala CPI(M) leadership speak of Yechury as a towering communist, an exceptional parliamentarian and a great defender of secular India. But when Yechury was alive, the CPI(M) unit in Kerala, by then firmly under Pinarayi Vijayan’s iron grip, was among the strongest forces resisting him. This…
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ESSAY January 16, 2024 The West doesn’t give a shit about me.By Youssef RakhaShareTweetE-mail An extract from the Gaza Damage Proxy Map, an open-source mapping tool adapted from the war in Ukraine. Yellow indicates a 70 percent probability of population and property destruction since October 10, 2023; purple indicates a 98 percent chance. Asurly old man is speaking…
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Passion is momentary but compassion is more enduring, the Socialist leader wrote. Ramachandra Guha Jan 14, 2024 · 09:00 am The Indian Socialist tradition is now moribund, but there was a time when it had a profound and mostly salutary influence on politics and society. Yet few people now know of its past vigour and…
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Kevin B. Anderson 16 January, 2024 MastodonFacebookTwitterEmailShare First published at The International Marxist-Humanist. In a fortunate coincidence, 2023 marked the 100th anniversary of Georg Lukács’s epochal History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics (1923) and the 50th anniversary of Raya Dunayevskaya’s ground-breaking Philosophy and Revolution: From Hegel to Sartre and from Marx to Mao (1973). One difference between these luminous…
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Aspiring autocrats keep ruining their countries’ economies. It’s another reason to fear the MAGA movement. In the 20th century, economic and political systems could be situated on a simple 2×2 grid. Economic policies ran from left to right, while political systems could be arrayed from authoritarian to democratic. Most U.S. businesses pegged themselves easily on…
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Subaltern Studies: Writings on IndianHistory and Society began in 1982 as a series of interventions in some debates specific to the writing of modern Indian history.1 Ranajit Guha (b.1923), a historian of India then teaching at the University of Sussex, wasthe inspiration behind it. Guha and eight younger scholars based in India,the United Kingdom, and…
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