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The Continuing Relevance of Karl Marx

Fri, 2012-05-18 16:12 | Venkatesh Athreya
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Nearly a hundred and thirty years after his death and 190 years after his birth on May 5, 1818, Karl Marx continues to exert enormous intellectual and practical influence across the world. The socialist future he so confidently predicted has not yet become the global reality that many had hoped it would. The capitalist mode of production that he diagnosed as crisis-prone and doomed to extinction in the course of further historical development dominates the contemporary world. The early attempts at establishing a socialist society have faced exceptionally difficult problems in a predominantly capitalist/imperialist world. Yet, none of these facts can be seen as rendering Marx irrelevant or as diminishing the power and vitality of his theory and vision. Why?

Commemorating Victor G. Kiernan: Marxists from Metropolis to Margins

Sat, 2010-10-23 22:02 — Maidul
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A Blog post and a first hand report on a Marxist conference on Victor Kiernan by Pragoti editorial member, Maidul Islam.

16 August 2010- A Tribute to Narayan Surve

Wed, 2010-08-25 12:17 | Pallavi Chavan

A poetic tribute to the revolutionary Marathi poet Narayan Surve by Pallavi Chavan. The poem, originally composed in Marathi, has also been translated in English by the poet. Both the versions are included in the post below.

150th Birth Anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore: the Universal Poet

Sun, 2010-05-09 15:05 | Pragoti Editorial Team
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May 9, 2010 marks the 150 birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore, one of the greatest poets and thinkers India has ever produced. In the present day World, riddled with war and violence, his writings on universal humanness and peace are more relevant than ever.
 
The multi-cultural educational efforts carried out by Tagore became an inspiration to educators around the world, and schools following his philosophy of human unity were created in many countries.

Lenin: The Lodestar

Thu, 2010-04-22 14:35 | Prakash Karat
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Prakash Karat, General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) writes on the legacy of Vladimir Lenin on the 140th birth anniversary. 

On the 64th Anniversary of the Naval Rising of 1946

Thu, 2010-02-18 14:19 — suchetana
On 18 February 1946, one of the most significant episodes in the history of anti-imperialist mass militancy in late colonial India began. It shook the foundations of the British Empire in its last days and revealed an alternative vision of decolonization from below which contradicted the social interests of the Indian upper classes.
The Ratings of the colonial ‘Royal Indian Navy’, who had survived the slaughter during the Second World War and contributed to the victory over Fascism, started a strike against low wages, poor food and racist harassment.

Paul Samuelson dies

Mon, 2009-12-14 13:56 — jyotirmoy

Paul Samuelson, one of the greatest economists of the last century, died yesterday.

Remembering Chile

Thu, 2009-09-10 17:26 | Remembering Chile
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On September 11, 1973, the democratically elected government of Chile was overthrown by a military coup led by Gen. Pinochet. Beginning with the murder of Allende himself, the coup unleashed a wave of barbaric repression against democraticall-minded people in Chile in which thousands were killed and tortured. The coup and the military regime which followed it had the direct support of the US.