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Jan 14, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Immanuel Ness |Raju Das |Hiren Gohain |Carlos L Garrido
This article was originally published in International Critical Thought journal, and you can access it here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21598282.2024.2431960. We are reproducing the article with the permission of the author. ABSTRACTMany Western Marxists have jettisoned the concepts of imperialism while retaining opposition to actually existing socialist projects of the Global South.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Immanuel Ness |Raju Das |Hiren Gohain |Carlos L Garrido
This is Part-1 of the article. Part-2 is titled – Western Marxism, Neo-liberal Capitalism and the Imperialist StateThis article was originally published in International Critical Thought journal, and you can access it here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21598282.2024.2431960. We are reproducing the article with the permission of the author.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Hiren Gohain |Carlos L Garrido |Bruce Lerro |Kim Scipes
Bamboozled by the twists and turns of politics which at one moment lift them up with sizable number of seats in Parliament and in the very next sees them plummet down to just one and a shrinking base,the left had held numerous dialogue sessions with friendly observers to see with their eyes the faults and failures that might have led to the crash.
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Nov 14, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Hiren Gohain |Carlos L Garrido |Bruce Lerro |Kim Scipes
Bamboozled by the twists and turns of politics which at one moment lift them up with sizable number of seats in Parliament and in the very next sees them plummet down to just one and a shrinking base,the left had held numerous dialogue sessions with friendly observers to see with their eyes the faults and failures that might have led to the crash.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Malini Subramaniam |MA Krishna |Carlos L Garrido |Hiren Gohain
Malini Subramaniam examines the challenges before journalists in speaking truth to power. A special focus from Free Speech Collective (FSC) as Jharkhand goes to the polls for its sixth Assembly elections since the formation of the state in 2000. The young and mineral-rich state of Jharkhand carved out of Bihar in 2000 will soon have its 6th Legislative Assembly elections in two phases on 13 and 20 November 2024, to elect the state’s 81 legislators. The results will be declared on November 23, 2024.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Carlos L Garrido |Bruce Lerro |Kim Scipes |Pon Chandran
The American political philosopher, Michael Parenti, said that the only thing about regular working people that the ruling class cares about is what they think. The owners of capital spend exuberate amounts of their dearest love – money – on crafting institutions that control how people think, the parameters of acceptable and unacceptable views. Frameworks of thought which facilitate the reproduction of the dominant social relations are proliferated, those which challenge these are silenced.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Bruce Lerro |Kim Scipes |Carlos L Garrido |Anil Gokhale
Imprisoned by romantic ideas about what art and artists are like, our notions of creativity seem to begin and end with individuals. But there are moments in capitalist societies when workers engage in collective-creativity. Two of which are as how people navigate during natural disasters, and how workers build workers councils in revolutionary situations.Workers have always been creative. But have always done so unconsciously.
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Bruce Lerro |Kim Scipes |Carlos L Garrido |Charles Andrews
From Unconscious Sleeping Giants to Conscious Builders of Barricades Part IOrientationOne purpose of this article is to get you to think of creativity in a whole new way. Our notion of creative today is baked with the assumptions of a Romantic theory of art. These have their good points but they also limit us. In this article I want to argue that the most powerful forms of creativity are collective, not individual.
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Aug 28, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Bruce Lerro |Kim Scipes |Carlos L Garrido |Charles Andrews
From Unconscious Sleeping Giants to Conscious Builders of Barricades Part IOrientationOne purpose of this article is to get you to think of creativity in a whole new way. Our notion of creative today is baked with the assumptions of a Romantic theory of art. These have their good points but they also limit us. In this article I want to argue that the most powerful forms of creativity are collective, not individual.
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Aug 25, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Kim Scipes |Carlos L Garrido |Pon Chandran |Bharat Dogra
After this week’s Democratic National Convention—which went well on their terms for what the Democratic leaders wanted—I strongly believe Kamala Harris will defeat Donald Trump for the presidency.
