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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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Dec 12, 2024 | 
links.org.au | Raju Das
While celebrating the achievements of the left in post-colonial India, I hope to provide a critical assessment of the Indian left. To do this, I will rely on academic and left-activist writings, newspaper reports and recently de-classified CIA documents.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
slguardian.org | Raju Das
In “On Compromises”, Vladimir Lenin (1917) said: “The term compromise in politics implies the surrender of certain demands, the renunciation of part of one’s demands, by agreement with another party.” In thinking about any compromise, Lenin (1920) wrote in “Left-wing Communism”: An Infantile Disorder,the greatest efforts are necessary for a proper assessment of the actual character of this or that ‘compromise’.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
mronline.org | Raju Das
In “On Compromises”, Vladimir Lenin (1917) said: “The term compromise in politics implies the surrender of certain demands, the renunciation of part of one’s demands, by agreement with another party.” In thinking about any compromise, Lenin (1920) wrote in “Left-wing Communism”: An Infantile Disorder,the greatest efforts are necessary for a proper assessment of the actual character of this or that ‘compromise’.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
links.org.au | Raju Das
In “On Compromises”, Vladimir Lenin (1917) said: “The term compromise in politics implies the surrender of certain demands, the renunciation of part of one’s demands, by agreement with another party.” In thinking about any compromise, Lenin (1920) wrote in “Left-wing Communism”: An Infantile Disorder, “the greatest efforts are necessary for a proper assessment of the actual character of this or that ‘compromise’.” In this article, I will discuss types of compromises and why they are necessary...
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
links.org.au | Raju Das
Vladimir Lenin made many valuable contributions to Marxist political economy. His 1899 book, The Development of Capitalism in Russia, is a model of Karl Marx’s Capital for the 20th century and an exemplar of the class approach to political economy. His writings on imperialism, including his book, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism, innovatively develop some of the themes from Marx’s general law of accumulation presented in Chapter 25 of Capital Vol 1.
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May 17, 2024 | 
links.org.au | Raju Das
Abstract: Climate change is producing health challenges. It has therefore contributed to an enhanced scholarly attention to public health. This article presents some basic ideas about how capitalism, workers’ health and climate change are inter-connected. It explains: a) the impacts of the production of capitalist wealth on workers’ health, and b) how these impacts are mediated by climate change, which is also a product of capitalism.
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May 9, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Neeraj Jain |Raju Das |P S Sahni |Gideon Polya
Following the Supreme Court judgement, the SBI after much reluctance handed over all the details of the electoral bonds to the ECI, which the latter has uploaded on its website. An analysis of the data reveals several scams that were hidden beneath the cloak of secrecy surrounding electoral bonds. This article gives a summary of the sordid details that have been unveiled by investigative reporters – they make it clear that the electoral bond scam is the biggest scam since independence.
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Apr 14, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Hiren Gohain |Bharat Dogra |Raju Das |Binoy Kampmark
When an old and seriously ill Stan Swamy,one more accused in the infamous Bhima Koregaon-Elgar Parishad case, knew death was near,he had pleaded that he be allowed to spend his last days at home.The High Court judges fired with passion to save the country and the invaluable Prime Minister’s life,curtly rejected the plea.Already the case had been shot through with several downright fallacies;vast but wispy conjectures and shaky factual evidence.It was particularly distressing that the court...
