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...
“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...
A primer for how to be an anti-capitalist in the 21st century
Amidst waves of economic crises, class struggle and neo-fascist reaction, few possess the clarity and foresight of world-renowned theorist, David Harvey. Since the publication of his bestselling A...
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...
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...
As an unprecedented global pandemic sweeps the planet, who better than the supercharged Slovenian philosopher, Slavoj Žižek to uncover its deeper meanings, marvel at its mind-boggling paradoxes, and speculate on the profundity of its consequences, all in a manner...
"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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The dead albatross that hangs around our neck is our legacy of arrogance, racism. And we must struggle to atone, to reconstruct, to create a different historical system.” So wrote the late sociologist and thinker Immanuel Wallerstein in unequivocal...
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...
