Albert Einstein: Political Profile of a Radical Scientist
"I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils (the evils of the capitalism), through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system,…
Ish N Mishra
Laws: Plato’s Second Best State
The Laws: The Second Best State The Laws is Plato’s last work on political philosophy. He was still working on it at the time of his death. Plato authored the Republic as…
Plato: the second best way of ruling – The Statesman (The Politicus)
Introduction Plato’s Republic, considered being the foundational text of the western Political Philosophy, is a work of a poetic flight with the youthful imagery and idealism of a young philosopher from…
Marx and the Present Crises of Capitalism
Capitalism is going through its greatest crisis since the 1930s. The banking system has been saved from meltdown (at least for the time being) only by extensive government intervention in…
Buddhist Political Theory: Social Contract Theory of the Origin of State
Reader’s Guide Buddhist theory of the origin of state, as contained is Digha Nikaya, one of the collections of Buddha’s teachings) is a great ancient Indian contribution to the history…
Release the journalist Mandeep Punia
Janhastakshep takes strong note of and unequivocally condemns the fascist state crackdown on farmers and the journalists factually reporting the movement and the state action. Two independent journalists, Mandeep Punia…
‘Black Lives Matter’: Slavery, race and the ideology in the historical context
Like communalism, Brahmanism (casteism) and the gender, the Race, is also not an attribute of biology but an ideology that is constructed, reconstructed, nurtured and perpetuated in the day-to-day life…
Echoes of Emergency
The CPI (ML - Liberation) office in Varanasi was raided at midnight without the search warrant, a couple of days ago. The process of the arrest under the draconian…
Nationalism, Chauvinism and the Students’ Protest
The attack on the students by the state and the right wing extremism, represented by RSS that took off with Mr. Modi’s ascendance to power in the center, has intensified…
Colonial Construction Of Indian Past And Communalism In India
Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India, Gyanendra Pandey, Delhi, oxford university Press, 1992, pp297, Price: Rs 100.10 The present epoch of Indian history is marked by its ‘decolonization’ through…
Historic Paris Commune Day Greetings To The Working Class
Today, March 18, is a red letter day for the working class and all true friends of the workers in the country and throughout the world. For, on this day,…
Marx on Religion
Many people keep quoting Karl Marx, as “Religion is the opiate of the masses.” But he never used that exact phrase.The exact quotes from the essay on Hegel's Philosophy of…
Political Economy of SEZ in India
The contradiction of praxis is the eternal contradiction of Capitalism with its innate attribute of unceasing accumulation. It means opposite to what it says. It appropriated political power and established…
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
Introduction Like Hobbes and Locke, the central political concernof Jean Jacks Rousseauhas also been a legitimate public authority in agreement with them about its ultimate source – the people. But…
Plato’s Theory of Education
Introduction “The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time…
Higher Education: The New Education Policy and the new challenges
The summary The new educational policy and proposed reforms like CBCS, RUSA, Central Universities’ Act are steps towards conformity of the WTO demands commoditization, liberalization and privatization of education on…
Plato’s Theory of Justice
Plato’stheory of justice quite different from and contrary to the justice as we understand it in constitutional-legal terms, can be precisely summed in following two quotes from the Republic: “Justice…
Plato’s Theory of Idea or the Form
Plato’s theory of Idea or the Form constitutes the philosophical foundation of Plato’s political theory. The problems variety and the change have been common questions for ancient Greeks, who…
Plato’s Theory of Soul
The intellectual world is teleological. That is to say nothing is written without purpose and each intellectual responds to; reflects upon; provides intellectual explanation and justification or critique and alternative…
Higher Education:The New Education Policy and the new challenges
The summary The new educational policy and proposed reforms like CBCS, RUSA, Central Universities’ Act are steps towards conformity of the WTO demands commoditization, liberalization and privatization of education on…
Karl Marx In Bihar At 200
Quotes from Karl Marx’s works reverberated in the unprecedented 5-day long conference organized by the Asian Development and Research Institute (ADRI), participated by the delegates from 18 countries across the…
Marx, Marxism and the Indian Context
The principles of Marxism and the Indian communist movement “The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling materialforce of…
Historic Paris Commune
Today, March 18, is a red letter day for the working class and all true friends of the workers in the country and throughout the world. For, on this day,…
To Rebel Is To Create
To rebel is to create To conform is to stagnate To question is to know To follow is support to status-quo To doubt is to be radical To undoubtedly assent…
Mary Wollstonecraft: A brief biographical note
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-97), rightly credited as the first feminist philosopher, though the term feminism was not available in the discourse of that era, by the Enlightenment-inspired passion for…
Karl Marx (1818-83)
19th Century witnessed many revolutions in the realm social movements and theories. The ordinary people, the working population, the wretched of the earth [Fanon] who entered in the arena of political theory through…
Chhattisgarh: Nationality Movement And The Oppressed
This article was published in a book Social Movements in Contemporary India edited by SK Chaube in 1996 Many small Nadis join to make the Mahanadi. This statement of Shankar Guha Niyogi,…
Dialectical Materialism
The term Dialectical Materialism was not used by Marx himself but by subsequent Marxists to delineate the synthesis of Marx’s critiques of Hegel’s Dialectics, which he called idealist and Feuerbach’s…
Protagoras (490-420 BC)
The Athenian Charvak Protagoras (490-420 BC), a sophist was an atheist, a rarity those days in Greece. One of the false charges against Socrates in the Athenian judicial assembly consisting…
Plato’s Theory of Communism
Plato’s theory of communism is just opposite to Marxian theory of communism that seeks to eventually establish a classless and hence stateless society, as according to it the state…
Cowardly Attack On Amarnath Pilgrims
Any cowardly, armed or mobbed attack on unarmed people must be condemned in no uncertain terms. We, who came out in "Not in my name" protest at Jantar-Mantar against Gorakshak…
Mahishasur: A people’s Hero
Alternative Readings of the Durga-Mahishasur Myth. A Revolt Against Brahmanical Epistemology: The beginning of a new cultural renaissance in India The alternative readings of myths from Brahmanical mythological reservoir mark the…
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)
The historical roots and the continuing theoretical basis of the modern liberal, liberal democratic and neo-liberal -- states can be traced to the economic and the consequent political and intellectual…
Nationalism And The Egalitarian Alternatives
As Benedict Anderson has rightly pointed out in The Imagined Communalities, the concept of nationalism as a new identity criterion and as a hegemonic ideology “was born in an…
Interlinkages Between Communalism And The Political Underworld
In the aftermath of Allahabad High Court judgement that nullified her election as a MP from Raebareli and in the midst of on growing students’ unrest, also known as…
Political Underworld And Adventure Journalism
The people of my generation, particularly those who were associated with students’ movement in 1970s, still have memories of fascist terrorism unleashed during the Emergency. The book under review…
The Specter Of Naxalism: The Neo-McCarthyism In India
Contradiction of praxis has been the perennial contradiction of capitalism from the very outset. It never says what it does and never does what it says; it promises the sky…
Spartacus
"SPARTACUS" is a powerful novel of ancient slave society with rich meaning for the liberation struggle of our day. It is brilliantly written, and in certain sections probably represents the…
The Concept Of Women In Communal Ideologies: A Study Into The ideologies Of RSS And Jamat-e-Islami
A communal organization derives its ideology, base and support from religion and tradition, that is, from the past or the existing social order, and functions as a bridge between religion…
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