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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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ByDylan Riley Capitalists are sometimes accommodating of electoral democracy. But at no point in history have capitalists ever accepted the outcome of elections that might threaten capitalist property relations. Today’s political consensus insists stridently upon the affinity between capitalism and democracy. For ideologues of the free market, any substantial restrictions on the freedom of capital…
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V. Geetha is an Indian feminist activist who writes on issues related to caste, gender, education and civil rights.[1][2] She operates from Madras (now known as Chennai) and has carried out research on the nature and proliferation of NGOs operating in Tamil Nadu. She has set up the federation of women’s groups in the state and is also the editorial director at Tara…
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JAMHOOR 2024 Year in Review & Call for Support The Prisoners in Bangladesh’s Backyard Farihah Ahmed Afghan Refugees and the Left in Sindh [English] Ayyaz Mallick The Student Intifada: Palestine, South Asia and the Question of Solidarity JAMHOOR A People’s History of Afghan Displacement in Pakistan Sanaa Alimia The Colonial Roots of Sri Lanka’s Tax…
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by John Bellamy Foster and Brett Clark (Jan 01, 2025) Topics: Biography Ecology Marxism Marxist Ecology Media Places: Americas Cuba United States John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review and professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Oregon. He is the author, most recently, of The Dialectics of Ecology (Monthly Review Press, 2024). Brett Clark is associate editor of Monthly Review and professor of sociology at the University of Utah. He is the author…
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by Marge Piercy (Jan 01, 2025) Topics: Capitalism Class Marxism Political Economy Places: Americas United States U.S. Supreme Court building. By USCapitol – U.S. Supreme Court Building, Public Domain, Link Their values are clearas a sheet of glass: peopleof color, those withoutlots of money don’t deservecollege or debt relief. Those too poor to air-condition, fly off to a coolisland aren’t neededany longer. They die soeasily. Let them.…
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