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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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By Michael A. Lebowitz (Posted Jul 03, 2022) Cuban Flag, Museum of the Revolution, Havana, Cuba, 2012. (Photo: Terry Feuerborn / Flickr) Culture, History, Ideology, MovementsCubaMonthly Review EssaysFeatured The First Thing I have two favorite sayings. One draws upon the dialogue in Shakespeare’s Henry the VI part 2 when Jack Cade envisions that the effect of his plot…
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By Samir Amin (Posted Nov 26, 2024) History, Ideology, ImperialismLost & FoundFeatured This piece was originally published in the June 1996 issue of Monthly Review. It is based on an article previously published in the December 28, 1995 issue of the Egyptian Al Ahram Weekly, translated from French by Pascale Ghazaleh and edited by Mona Anis, assistant editor. ~ Capitalism is always…
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By Raju J Das Published 23 November, 2024 MastodonFacebookTwitterEmail In “On Compromises”, Vladimir Lenin (1917) said: “The term compromise in politics implies the surrender of certain demands, the renunciation of part of one’s demands, by agreement with another party.” In thinking about any compromise, Lenin (1920) wrote in “Left-wing Communism”: An Infantile Disorder, “the greatest efforts are necessary…
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Posted on Tuesday, Nov 26, 2024 6:00AM by Ashutosh Jogalekar by Ashutosh Jogalekar The Founding Fathers aren’t much in fashion among liberals these days. A good friend of mine has been trying to get a novel about Thomas Jefferson published for three years. He has approached more publishers than he can care to name, publishers of all sizes,…
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