I cannot breathe. Can you? on June 10, 2020The impregnable American capitalism is under the mounting strain of a mass uprising. The dawn of realisation has finally arrived. Democracy and commodity, the tools of capitalistic culture, are insufficient to gratify the needs of the masses. They have failed to maintain the hegemony of the dominant class and are, hence, falling apart. The subalterns […]
Shame, a revolutionary feeling on May 20, 2020‘Shame’ Marx says ‘is a revolutionary feeling’, but people immune to the commodity structure rarely feel that way. They accept oppression. Shame is natural. This recognition and glorification of the natural become an ideology that justifies the unnatural and hinders the human struggle against his liberation – people become shameless. ‘World is a stage’ where […]
The one who integrates is lost on May 8, 2020Does anyone remember Mordechai Vanunu, an Israeli former nuclear technician, who opposed Israel’s nuclear weapon program, leaked it to the west, hence abducted by Mossad from Italy? The whistleblower, brought back to Israel, tried and sentenced to 18 years’ imprisonment, most of them in a solitary confinement. Even now, confined to Israel he cannot travel […]
Only fools speak truth to power on May 2, 2020‘Only fools speak truth to power’, Adorno says, should help this truth to find the consciousness of its reason or else it can be perished by the vulgar common sense. On May 1886, the workers of Chicago found the consciousness of the reason of their truth and broke free from the pitiless common-sense and bade […]
No Right Life In A Wrong One on April 15, 2020“The courage to resist suffering”, Sartre said, “was the secret of a man. But the perils of the Resistance were to be shared: and that is why the Resistance was a true democracy; for the soldier, as for his superior, the same danger, the same loneliness, the same responsibility, the same absolute freedom within the […]
About coronas and capitalism on March 24, 2020Love “in the time of Cholera” was possible, but in the time of coronas, its existence seems imponderable. “When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalion,” and the majorityloses the sense of collectivity.During fear, men lose their reason, self-preservation becomes the sole rationality, andthe Darwinian law of survival of the fittest the […]
‘O wretched state! Bossom black as death on March 13, 2020‘There is no humanity left. You do not even slaughter animals like that’ (Caravan, March3, 2020). It was a cry of a victim mercilessly lynched by a mob overwhelmed with the hysteria of religion during Delhi’s communal violence. ‘Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftover of the past’ people forget. History, human […]
A cadaver who wrote an obituary on March 2, 2020“Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory; Odors, when sweet violets sicken, live within the sense they quicken.” In Shelley’s famous poem, sorrow embracing romance sets the gloomy symphony of an obituary. Not many people have the knack to turn an obituary into a romance. While writing obituaries, people keep their cards close […]
A letter to the premier scorched by promises on February 10, 2020“When gods want to punish us,” Oscar Wilde said, “they answer our prayers.” They did when a mass of lumpenproletariat crudely assisted by not-so-invisible power manoeuvred your way to the throne with a wafer-thin majority. The countries run by a remote control do not have the luxury to be ruled by a majority but by […]
Justice acquits but him that judges on November 26, 2019The much-awaited but somewhat expected verdict was finally delivered. The Indian Supreme Court has sealed the fate of a demolished mosque named after a human being who was not a phantom but had a physical existence fully endorsed by history. The verdict reeks of political domination since it justifies forceful appropriation and orders to rebuild […]