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We cannot take our poetry from the past but only from the future

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We have often used this statement by Marx to attack others: “Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic […]

Pratyush Chandra September 7, 2020 Historical materialism, historiography, History, ideology, left, Marxism, Party

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

Three provisional theses on Marx’s concept of value


“Could commodities themselves speak, they would say: Our use-value may be a thing that interests men. It’s no […]

Pothik Ghosh August 28, 2016 Uncategorized, Value Theory

A QUICK NOTE ON THE POST-PHENOMENOLOGY OF MARX AND HOW TOTALITY IS A PHANTOM THAT IS REAL


Hegel’s phenomenological story — i.e. phenomena as constitutive moments of the unfolding of the dialectic of essence and […]

Pothik Ghosh April 26, 2016 Marxism, phenomenology, Uncategorized

Notes on Rohith Vemula’s Suicide

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1. “It takes a loud voice to make the deaf hear, with these immortal words uttered on a […]

Pratyush Chandra February 19, 2016 Caste, Identity, Law, Marx, Marxism, revolutionary ethics, revolutionary 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

Some provisional notes on the materialism of thought, and modernism as “an aesthetics of necessary failure”


The fundamental question, insofar as modernism is concerned, is what does modernism make its diverse forms say about […]

Pothik Ghosh September 5, 2015 Adorno, materialism, modernism, philosophy, politics of literature

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

Marx: An Epicurean in Hegelian disguise?


“…the principle of Epicurean philosophy is not the gastrology of Archestratus as Chrysippus believes, but the absoluteness and […]

Pothik Ghosh August 27, 2015 Marxism, philosophy

With Lenin against Foucault, with Foucault against Lenin


Unless the state, and its attendant state power, are grasped and demonstrated as the operation of the grammar […]

Pothik Ghosh August 25, 2015 Foucault, Leninism, modern state, Neoliberalism

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