Socialism
Lenin: The Lodestar
Prakash Karat, General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) writes on the legacy of Vladimir Lenin on the 140th birth anniversary.
Bolivarian National Militia to guard the Venezuelan revolution
Sun, 2010-04-18 13:04 — unni
On April 13, more than 30,000 Bolivarian Militants took oath to defend the revolution till the last breath,in Venezuela.
Homage to Juan Almeida
One of the stalwarts of the Cuban Revolution and a symbol of the achievements of both the 26th of July movement as well as its successor, the Cuban Communist Party, Commandante Juan Almeida Bosque breathed his last on September 11,aged 82. Pragoti pays homage to Comrade Almeida.
SOCIALISM AND WELFARISM
Prof.Prabhat Patnaik lucidly explains the dialectical relationship between 'Socialism' and Welfarism' and argues for the necessity of 'political intervention' of the left in welfare measures for the transformation of people from 'Objects' to 'Subjects'.
The Need for a New Socialist Vision
Prabir Purkayastha argues that the Left needs to recreate a new vision of socialism by moving away from the 20th century Fordian paradigm to a new way of looking at future production systems.
The Paradox of Capitalism
J0hn Maynard Keynes, though bourgeois in his outlook, was a remarkably insightful economist, whose book Economic Consequences of the Peace was copiously quoted by Lenin at the Second Congress of the Communist International to argue that conditions had ripened for the world revolution. But even Keynes’ insights could not fully comprehend the paradox that is capitalism.
Resistance to Neoliberalism and Transformative Possiblities in Latin America: Two Perspectives
Two articles on the praxis of resistance to neoliberalism in Latin America.
What threatens the security of the North American people is the aggressive policy of the warmongers of the United States
Excerpt from Fidel Castro's speech at Havana's May Day celebrations on May 2, 1961 - Less than two weeks after the Bay of Pigs invasion.
Radical Enlightenment and the Socialist Alternative
How does the critique of modernity (as it is found in some of the alternative radical strains in the Enlightenment ranging from seventeenth century dissenters against the newly emerging orthodox elements of modernity to Gandhi in our own country's emerging modernity) square with the ideals of economic and social justice in the broad Leftist tradition owing chiefly to Marx? Pragoti presents a selection of articles from a seminar in Hyderabad in January 2009 on 'Radical Enlightenment and the Socialist Alternative'.
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