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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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Ramachandra Guha: From a Kerala port, a citizens’ report provides proof of ‘destructive development’
A study by group of scholars comprehensively shows how the Vizhinjam seaport will bring more harm than benefit. Ramachandra Guha Dec 31, 2023 · 07:30 am Of all the Indian states I know, Kerala has the most active civil society organisations that flourish independently of governments and political parties. These groups work in many spheres,…
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How did Marxism become Marxism? PETER E. GORDONSHARE This article appears in the December 25, 2023/January 1, 2024 issue. In the years leading up to the outbreak of the 1905 revolution in Russia, Eduard Bernstein—the spirited German advocate of socialist revisionism—warned his Marxist colleagues about the dangers of an “almost mythical faith in the nameless masses.”…
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BYANDREW BONNELL It’s important to place the leading figures of Marxism in the context that shaped them. That context has to include the repressive state structures and extreme inequalities of Europe in the early 20th century, which made revolution seem inevitable. New issue coming soon. Subscribe to our print edition today. The Essential Guide to Jacobin…
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AN INTERVIEW WITHLEA YPI Rosa Luxemburg is an icon of the socialist movement who died a martyr’s death in 1919. But she was also a brilliant and highly original political thinker whose ideas about capitalism and how to oppose it are strikingly relevant to today’s world. New issue coming soon. Subscribe to our print edition…
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The Party School Speech to the Nuremberg Congress of the German Social Democratic Party (September 1908) Spoken: September 14, 1908.Source: German: Ausgewählte Reden und Schriften, II (Berlin: Dietz Verlag, 1951), pp. 311–14; English: Selected Political Writings Rosa Luxemburg, 1971, edited by Dick Howard.Translated: (from the German) John Heckman.Transcription/Markup: Ted Crawford/Brian Baggins.Proofread: Einde OᰱCallaghan (May 2016).Copyright: Monthly Review Press © 1971. Printed with the permission of Monthly…
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