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Capitalism and Social Justice: The Floyd Protests in the US

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In 1968, when Europe was witnessing student revolts, Italian Marxist filmmaker, novelist and poet Pier Paolo Pasolini wrote […]

Pratyush Chandra June 18, 2020 Identity, political economy, Politics, Working Class

India Unlocked: World’s “Biggest Lockdown” and Workers’ Long March

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“… never torment a creature for sport, for it might be loaded.” – Ernst Bloch At times, states […]

Pratyush Chandra June 1, 2020 capitalism, Working Class

Brecht and Workers’ Self-Inquiry

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The lucidity of Brecht’s journal entries is remarkable. He is a master of aphorisms, yet he never allows […]

Pratyush Chandra September 17, 2019 Bertolt Brecht, Working Class

Brecht on “the Concept of Class”

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8 Jan 42 the concept of class too, perhaps because it has come down to us as it […]

Pratyush Chandra September 4, 2019 Bertolt Brecht, Marxism, Working Class

On Rights Politics and Migrant Workers

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These notes were prepared for a discussion in Delhi on a report on the condition of migrant workers […]

Pratyush Chandra October 24, 2017 Anti-capitalism, capitalism, Human Rights, Labour, Marx, Marxism, Politics, revolutionary politics, Working Class

Mapping the Footloose


1 The word “mapping” in the phrase “labour mapping” is a combination of its cartographic (map-making) and mathematical […]

Pratyush Chandra November 20, 2015 Labour, Marxism, Working Class

Proletarian class determination: epistemology or ontology?


“Class determination of knowledge means that we do not know whether determination actually takes place in reality as […]

Pothik Ghosh August 19, 2015 capitalism, Marxism, Working Class

Labour Mapping through Workers’ Inquiry


(Preface to a report on labour mapping exercise in Odisha) Here is a report of an exercise in […]

Pratyush Chandra July 17, 2015 India, Orissa, Working Class

Stalin on “aristocratic attitude towards the masses”


Our Stalin institutionalists and anti-Stalin fanatics can quibble over the meaning-fulness or -lessness of the following, but it […]

Pratyush Chandra June 16, 2015 Marxism, Party, Politics, Reading Stalin, Working Class

On the question of class mentality and politics


Considering the casual drafting of my last post, a comrade from Odisha, Satyabrata has rightly demanded a clarification. […]

Pratyush Chandra April 30, 2015 Labour, Working Class

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