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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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This book covers the whole system of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, dealing with Deng Xiaoping’s theory, the socialist market economy, a moderately well-off (Xiaokang) society, China’s practice and theory of socialist democracy, human rights, and Xi Jinping’s Marxism. In short, the resolute focus is the Reform and Opening-Up. Socialism with Chinese Characteristics is one of…
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Al-Qaeda affiliates with a history of receiving western funding have reactivated in Syria along with Turkish-backed fighters to recapture significant amounts of territory in the war-ravaged nation. It’s hard to say exactly what’s happening in the moment, but I will say it’s mighty convenient how Russia being tied up in Ukraine and Hezbollah being decapitated by Israel…
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Nobel Prize Winner, Han Kang, Compares Genocide in Gaza to Hiroshima and Nagasaki Vijay Prashad Oct 16, 2024 After news broke that Han Kang—the South Korean author—had won the Nobel Prize for Literature, her father—the novelist Han Seung-won—asked her where she wanted to hold a press conference to talk about the award. She published her fiction with Changbi…
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Why Do the Israelis Bomb Palestinian Homes in the Middle of the Night? Vijay Prashad Dec 02, 2024 At 10 pm on the night of 28 October 2024, the Israeli air force struck a five-story building in Beit Lahiya, in the northern area of Gaza. Northern Gaza has been pummeled by the Israelis since October 8, 2023.…
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Originally published: NewsClicks.in on December 1, 2024 by Sandip Chakraborty (more by NewsClicks.in) | (Posted Dec 03, 2024) Economic Crisis, Economic Theory, Global Economic Crisis, Political EconomyAsia, IndiaNewswireAmiya Kumar Bagchi Kolkata: Towering Marxist economist and ideologue Amiya Kumar Bagchi breathed his last on Thursday, November 28, evening at a private hospital in Kolkata. He was 88. He is survived by two daughters, both of…
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