In Defence of Leninism
Written against the background of the recent critiques of democratic centralism and the crisis of mainstream left politics, this paper argues for a defence of Leninism based on Marx's theory of the...
View ArticleLeninism as Radical 'Desireology'
This essay is an inquiry in the political philosophy of Lenin with special emphasis on the understanding of Bolshevism in the contemporary era of late imperialism in permanent crises. In contrast to...
View ArticleAnti-Marxism as Putrefied Theology
The author argues that Arun Patnaik's rejoinder ("Theological Marxism", EPW, 22 October 2011) to his paper ("Leninism as Radical 'Desireology'", EPW, 24 September 2011) is based on borrowing from the...
View ArticleOn Understanding the Decline of the Established Indian Left
The inability of the Indian left to construct a project of the transcendence of capitalism (the central thesis of Patnaik) is understood as constituted within a crisis of world Marxism that began with...
View ArticleCrime and Punishment?
Paresh Chattopadhyay’s (PC) letter, “Communists and Capital Punishment” (EPW, 2 March 2013), needs an urgent response. Though the main idea in PC’s letter is the critique of capital punishment (the...
View ArticleGramsci and the Politics of Truth
Antonio Gramsci by Antonio A Santucci (Delhi: Aakar Books), 2011; pp 207, Rs 375.read more
View ArticleAsiatic Mode of Production, Caste and the Indian Left
The study of Marxism in India has consciously underestimated Karl Marx's concept of the "Asiatic mode of production" which has led it to a number of errors. The place of casteism in the larger matrix...
View ArticleFetishism of Hinduism and Its Secret Thereof
With the emergence of right-wing Hindutva forces backed by corporate monopoly capitalists and the media industry, and legitimised by the general culture of liberal democracy, a fresh understanding of...
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