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What “Fataha” means in Anti-Capitalist Politics

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[O]ur army is very different from others, because its proposal is to cease being an army.– Subcomandante Marcos […]

Pratyush Chandra April 28, 2016 Anti-capitalism, capitalism, Marxism, political economy, Politics, revolutionary politics

The Standpoint of the Unemployed

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Our task in this note is to locate the unemployed in the social structure of capitalism and its […]

Pratyush Chandra January 15, 2016 Anti-capitalism, capitalism, Identity, India, Labour, Marx, Marxism, political economy, Politics

On the Labour Politics of ‘Immediate Effectiveness’

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Interestingly, recent years have seen a tremendous increase in activism on pure workers’ issues. In fact, there is […]

Pratyush Chandra December 25, 2015 capitalism, Labour, Politics, revolutionary politics, rights dicourse

Affirming poverty, or, how to radically break with fascistic underconsumptionism


“To deny poverty is to deny the absence of the Kingdom in the present system. It is to […]

Pothik Ghosh September 30, 2015 fascism, Liberation theology, political economy, Politics

Some rough-and-ready critical observations on the ‘redoing’ of the subalternist approach by Derridean-Marxists


In a recent polemic directed at one of the doyens (Partha Chatterjee) of the Subaltern Studies project, I […]

Pothik Ghosh September 18, 2015 critical theory, political economy, Politics

A rambling note on the need for a ‘religious’ left


The question of religion cannot be adequately posed and articulated outside the frame of politics as the actuality […]

Pothik Ghosh September 4, 2015 left, Liberation theology, Politics, religion

Kafka as a saint of revolutionary pessimism


“There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because […]

Pothik Ghosh September 4, 2015 Kafka, literature, Politics, theology

Iqbal’s Aurangzeb: A figure of sectarian reaction or radical internationalism?


“The political genius of Aurangzeb was extremely comprehensive. His one aim of life was, as it were, to […]

Pothik Ghosh September 3, 2015 India, Iqbal, nationalism, Pakistan, Politics, secularism

Stalin on international cooperation


Roland Boer as usual discovers gems in Stalin’s writings. This one definitely establishes Stalin to be the real […]

Pratyush Chandra August 27, 2015 Politics

Hardik Patel and Gujarat model, not exceptions to capital, but its norm: Some agreements and many disagreements with an ET article


http://blogs.economictimes.indiatimes.com/cursor/hardik-patel-blows-up-the-gujarat-model/ The author of the article, Mr T.K. Arun, writes: “…. Here is Hardik Patel, offering concrete proof […]

Pothik Ghosh August 26, 2015 Gujarat, Hardik Patel, political economy, Politics, reservation

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