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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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The federal government’s dysfunction leaves immigrant-friendly cities feeling overwhelmed.By Jerusalem Demsas February 19, 2024ShareSave Listen-1.0x+ 0:0019:06 Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (Noa) using AI narration. Listen to more stories on the Noa app. When the mayor of New York, of all places, warned that a recent influx of asylum seekers would destroy his city, something didn’t add up.…
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A Collection of Classic Poetry About Social Protest https://www.thoughtco.com/ ‘The Burning of Shelley’, July 1822. Hulton Archive / Getty Images By Bob Holman & Margery Snyder Updated on July 10, 2019 Nearly 175 years ago Percy Bysshe Shelley said, in his “Defence of Poetry”, that “poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.” In the years…
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ByRussell Jacoby In defiance of predictions, American Marxism has survived and even flourished, notably in universities. This institutional base has produced plenty of good scholarship, but it’s also encouraged hyper-specialization and the use of impenetrable jargon. Our new issue, “Bye Bye Bidenism,” is out now. Subscribe to our print edition at a discounted rate today. Excerpted from…
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கொழும்பு தினக்குரல் கடந்த ஞாயிற்றுக்கிழமை 02 June 2024 “சத்தியமனை” – சுப்பிரமணியம் நயன கணேசன். “இப்பொழுது கூட அந்த நிகழ்வுகளை நினைவு கூ.. ர்..கை..யி..ல்.. இந்தச் சொத்திக் கிழவியா… பல மணித்தியாலங்கள் மழைக்காலத்தில் கூட நனைந்த நிலையில்…ஏறி, இறங்கி வந்த கால்களா இவை என்று எனது அசைய மறுக்கும் பாதங்ளுக்கு நன்றி கூறுகின்றேன்.” (பக்கம்: 28) யாழ் மண்ணில் சுட்டெரிக்கும் வெயிலை கிஞ்சித்தும் பொருட்படுத்தாது குளு குளுவென குளிரூட்டிய பஸ்ஸில் சுளிபுரம் நோக்கி இரவு பயணமானேன்.…
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…new from Monthly Review PressThe welfare state as dialectical phenomenon The Class Struggle and Welfare: Social Policy under Capitalism shows that as welfare states grew exponentially throughout the advanced capitalist world over the course of a century, the intents, purposes and perceptions of the institution of welfare underwent a dialectical transformation. On the one hand, the…
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