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...
"The Contemporary Relevance of Marx" --Immanuel Wallerstein (Yale University, USA) at the Marx Collegium, 2017 Marx's Capital after 150 Years: Critique and Alternative to Capitalism (York University, Canada).
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Immanuel Wallerstein, one of the world’s greatest social theorists has left this 'world system' with a message - the solutions to the ills of capitalism won’t be found in one country. He has been the defender of the rights...
“Knowledge production in disciplines of Social Sciences and Humanities is emerging out of the everyday practices of human beings,” according to Dr. P. Sanal Mohan, former Director, Kerala Council of Historical Research (KCHR) and Professor of Social Sciences, Mahatma...
In the context of continuing violence in social spaces, there is a need to explore and expand the existing methodology of social sciences, particularly of sociology and social anthropology, in order to address the silences and gaps that constitute...
Immanuel Wallerstein
My first commentary appeared on October 1, 1998. It was published by the Fernand Braudel Center (FBC) at Binghamton University. I have produced commentaries on the first and the fifteenth of every month since then without exception. This...
As digital technology became integral to the capitalist market dystopia of the first decades of the 21st century, it not only refashioned our ways of communicating but of working and consuming, indeed ways of living. The Covid-19 pandemic revealed...
Robyn Autry
With Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests spreading across the globe this year, this ought to be a moment when sociologists cast valuable light on how racist thinking affects everyday life. Sociology is, after all, deeply invested in...
Chomsky on the “Limits” of Knowledge & Thought
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Watch More at https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/07/12/chomsky-on-the-limits-of-knowledge-thought/
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A theoretical analysis of the prevailing situation, from which the proletariat’s relationship with different segments of the bourgeoisie and the peasantry is derived, and with it the Communist Party’s tactics towards other political forces, is central to the Party’s...
