Swan song of official Marxism on September 22, 2013The relevance of Marx was proved once again formidably when even numerous apologists of neo-liberal finance capital queued up at bookshops for Das Capital after a mega-crisis had engulfed Wall Street. Shocking as it may seem to ‘official’ Marxists, Lenin’s Imperialism, the Highest (in original text, Latest) Stage of Capitalism is bearish. The demise of […]
Jyoti Basu, the libertarian communist 1I on August 26, 2013Dr Dasgupta recorded a pensive snippet. DG: “You were underground when Kamaldi gave birth to her first baby.” Basu: “Yes (He paused as his first wife died along with the newborn girl child. I felt somewhat uneasy). The daughter didn’t survive too. I was arrested again on the day she died. Kamal sent the news […]
Jyoti Basu, the libertarian communist 1 on August 25, 2013The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), the largest official Marxist party in this subcontinent, has marked this year as the birth centenary year of Jyoti Basu, one of the founding politbureau (PB) members of the party formed in October 1964 out of a split in the Communist Party of India. Born on July 8, 2014 […]