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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

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

Why rights-centric politics is not a politics of freedom


Exchange-value (and exchange-relations) is not in and by itself value (and value-relations). Rather, exchange-value (and exchange-relations) is appearance […]

Pothik Ghosh August 24, 2015 political economy, Politics, rights dicourse

Some random and provisional thoughts on Marxian conceptions of production


Production as in capitalist production is, pace Marx, always immaterial. That value, as the realisation of production, is, […]

Pothik Ghosh August 22, 2015 philosophy, Pierre Macherey, political economy, Politics, Spinoza

Why a Marx-Inspired Materialist Historiography cannot Afford to be Historicist and yet it often is


A historically determinist (or hitoricist) historiography takes root when the line shifts from construing the discursive inscription of […]

Pothik Ghosh August 22, 2015 Historical materialism, historiography, philosophy of history, Politics

Yakub Memon’s Impending Execution in the Light of a Passage from Foucault’s ‘Discipline and Punish’ Read through a Marxist Prism


“The public execution did not re-establish justice, it reactivated power. In the seventeenth century, and even in the […]

Pothik Ghosh July 29, 2015 Human Rights, Law, Politics
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