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Tagore’s play Mukta-Dhara foretells the manner in which people across the country have been losing their freedom — those uprooted by development quite obviously so, those ‘benefitting’ from it (mostly living in cities) more subtly and invisibly. This is the ecologically fatal price of ‘progress’, which Rabindranath anticipated in much of his work.
How are we to understand the origins and historic significance of the concept of ecological civilization? What is its relation to ecological Marxism? And how is this connected to the worldwide revolutionary struggle aimed at transcending our current planetary emergency and protecting what Karl Marx called “the chain of human generations,” together with life in general?
Fascism is again ascendant. The far-right politician Giorgia Meloni is expected to become Italy’s prime minister after elections on Sunday. Extremism is the political cost of pronounced social inequality and political stagnation. Demagogues, who promise moral and economic renewal, vengeance against phantom enemies and a return to lost glory, rise out of the morass.
A great responsibility falls upon the democratic and secular parties – whatever be their differences on policy matters – to come together and defend the country’s values.
Open Letter to Mr. Rahul Gandhi: Unlike the divisive, hateful, and violent monologue of the ruling dispensation, your Bharat Jodo Yatra is going to spread the seeds of unity, love, nonviolence, and dialogic engagement with all sections of our country. Also: Govt Facilitating Corporate Loot, Says Rahul Gandhi.
In his August 15 speech, Prime Minister Modi sidestepped demands on the government to deliver on its promises and instead laid great emphasis on citizens fulfilling their duties. The Orwellian new name for Delhi’s Rajpath adds to this push.
Though there are several constitutional infirmities in the proposed NRC exercise itself, when it combines with the CAA, it directly and inevitably puts mainly the Muslim citizens of India at the risk of losing citizenship. Hence, the same is discriminatory and falls foul of both Article 14 and the basic feature of secularism enshrined in the Constitution of India.
Palestinians are resisting Israeli repression under the harshest circumstances and by every means available to them. Tellingly, the strongest of such resistance takes place inside prison walls, by gaunt looking, and often dying hunger strikers.
Most sub-Saharan African French colonies got formal independence in the 1960s. But their economies have progressed little, leaving most people in poverty, because of post-colonial monetary arrangements imposed on these countries by France, which have allowed for their continual exploitation by France.
More than twenty years after the publication of Marx’s Ecology (Monthly Review Press, 2000), author John Bellamy Foster and interviewer Roberto Andrés discuss the roots of Marx’s ecological thought, from the Greek atomists to the Enlightenment to Malthus.
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