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Alain Touraine, a highly revered French sociologist who died on June 9, was widely recognized for his profound insights and scholarly contributions in the realm of Social Sciences. Touraine's intellectual acumen transcended geographical boundaries, leaving...
Prof Harvey takes a look into why modern capitalism concentrates power more in finance and merchant capital than industrial capital. What changes in neoliberalism created such focus on financialization instead of surplus value? "What we've seen since the 1980s,...
The theory of International Relations (IRT) is either derived from or followed in praxis. Its origin dates to the time of the evolution of the discipline of International Relations as a separate field of study. International Relations commenced formally...
Aijaz Ahmad (1941-2022) died at home on March 9, surrounded by his books and papers, and by the warmth of his children and his friends.
Born in Muzaffarnagar, in British India, Aijaz read extensively from an early age and allowed...
His presence in India was a source of extraordinary stimulus for the intellectual and political life on the Left in this country
Professor Aijaz Ahmad, who passed away on March 9, 2022, was a truly outstanding Marxist thinker of our...
A CRUCIAL component of the imperialist system is the colonisation of third world minds that helps to sustain it. This colonisation is pervasive, but here we shall discuss only academic colonisation and that too relating to the social sciences.
Social...
By Paul Emiljanowicz
Nkrumah’s written works and speeches reveal a selective encounter and appropriation of tools—in this case from Marxist thought—that were translated through Nkrumah’s traveling theory.
In his seminal work Black Marxism, Black American sociologist Cedric Robinson argues that African...
On 28 May 1871, one hundred and fifty years ago, the Paris Commune collapsed after seventy-two days. The workers of Paris created the Commune on 18 March, building on the wave of revolutionary optimism that first lapped on the...
SEW-L Inaugural Address
K.M. Seethi & Elizabeth Abraham
Can historians avoid anachronism in their narratives of the past? This has been a major question in the debates of/in historiography, and noted historian Prof. Rajan Gurukkal addressed this question in the...
AT a time when peasant masses in the country are engaged in a valiant struggle for the repeal of the central government’s three infamous laws, and have laid peaceful siege to Delhi, braving rains and bitter cold, it is...
