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"Anti-intellectualism...is a counter-revolutionary agenda being cloaked under the language of "accessibility". As a result of that rejection, there has been an ushering in of unprincipled and reactionary opinions all given validity because it’s how someone feels."

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There has been a deeply anti-intellectualist response to my review of the movie 'Jawan'. The assumption is that films are not suited for detailed theorizing. The following passage by Todd McGowan easily dispels these ideas:

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@LeninBol Ajamu Baraka: “the United States is a settler-colonial project, a settler-colonial state. It’s had a continuity since 1791, once the new constitutional process was finalized, and that process just basically resulted in the consolidation of the power of the colonists that were on

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I will be presenting a paper on the Karnataka hijab row, examining in particular the political efficacy of post-modernist theory in understanding identity and resistance.

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Very excited to give this first look at the program for the Feminist Ethics and Social Theory *online* conference in October! Some highlights in the thread below. Registration will open soon.

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An inspiring, forceful and expressive essay by Gramsci. Thanks @plbmagazine for publishing it.

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@LeninBol the land since 1619. Even with the Civil War, there’s been continuity, because the US national state won that conflict with the Confederacy. The very fact that the material basis of the US was the conquering of this land and then the confinement of Native peoples to concentration

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Those who are saying that I am merely using jargon should read the entire article instead of just the slides. The slides don't convey the careful reconstruction of the different masculinities that are at play in Deewar and Jawan.

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@LeninBol camps that we refer to as “reservations,” provides not only a moral critique but it provides a moral foundation for how a just resolution has to look.”

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Revisiting Lenin's views on religion on his 152nd birth anniversary – People's Review

On Lenin's 152nd birth anniversary revisiting his views on religion in the context of the working class's struggle. It's important even now.

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New "left-wing" advice just dropped: forget material decolonisation and rely on mushy-mushy liberal humanism.

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For @DissentMag , I wrote about why the left must be humane, or it is not a left at all.

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My article on Afghanistan, published in today's Tehran Times (August 31).

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@LeninBol It was the evolution of the contradiction between Southern plantation capitalists and Northern industrial capitalists - rather an "abolitionist mindset" - that caused the Civil War.

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Without the theoretical context elaborated in the article (which I borrow from Todd McGowan), the article will obviously seem incoherent.

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@SevenDeviled Most of the social media responses to my article were based on the reductive slides they had prepared. I think it is unfair to remove my article based on the supposedly representative feedback that FII received from a motley of digital users.

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@Taimur_Laal I have written about it here

Remembering Marilyn Monroe’s Radical Politics – OpEd

June 1, 2022, was Marilyn Monroe’s 96th birth anniversary. Though our neoliberal age of hyper-commodification has only entrenched her image as a sex symbol, the political dimensions of Monroe’s...

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Saadat Hasan Manto and the Exploration of Madness via @thewire_in On Manto's death anniversary, I write about his short story "Toba Tek Singh," whose deconstructive logic opposes the logocentric metaphysics of right wing politics.

Saadat Hasan Manto and the Exploration of Madness

In his short story 'Toba Tek Singh', set against the background of the 1947 partition of the Indian subcontinent, writer Saadat Hasan Manto provides a literary narration of the socio-political...

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You are a piece of shit. You either stand with the Palestinian resistance or colonialism.

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Noah Schnapp shares statement on Israel and Palestine: “You either stand with Israel or you stand with terrorism. It shouldn’t be a difficult choice. Shame on you.”

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@profhuq I believe that both the issues are interlinked since theory needs a vocabulary through which it can articulate its analysis. My article was trolled because most people read the reductive slides and not the article. This conveys an unwillingness to learn theoretical vocabulary.

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My intervention in the debate on patriotic socialism.

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How India’s “Exam Warriors” Have Promoted Majoritarianism

The Manipal Institute of Technology in Karnataka has suspended an assistant professor after a video showing a Muslim student powerfully criticizing him for calling him by a terrorist’s name went...

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Hybrid conferences are so frustrating for digital presenters. In the absence of proper online infrastructure, ad hoc arrangements create a two-tiered system where those who can afford to attend in-person are given greater opportunities for networking and interaction, while those

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My article on the need to rethink the debate on AMU's minority status from a subaltern-secular perspective so that anti-fascist opposition can be strengthened:

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@MarxMidwest According to Manu Karuka, there is no national territory in the United States. Nor is there a national political economy; only an imperial one, which continues to be maintained, not through the rule of law, contract, or competition, but through the renewal of colonial occupation.

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@de_coloniszing @TathagatEcon It is not just about the prevalence of discrete "issues" wrt caste, minorities etc. It concerns the structural inequalities inherent in an economically exclusionary private institute like Ashoka. Dubbing it as a left wing space is the height of intellectual elitism.

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@MarxMidwest Many American workers of the United States have advanced through the ongoing exclusion, marginalization and oppression of an ‘underclass’ inside the country, made up of dispossessed Native Americans. Ignoring this as a "bourgeois ideological construct" is economistic.

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Capitalist Modernity And The Dynamics Of Trust – OpEd

In The Consequences of Modernity, Anthony Giddens notes that modernity connects the local and the global in such unprecedented ways that distanciated relations come to form the structural...

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My response to Akeel Bilgrami's article on Gandhi, liberal modernity and caste.

Marx, Gandhi and Primitive Accumulation: A Response to Akeel Bilgrami - Yanis Iqbal - CPI(ML) Red...

Marx, Gandhi and Primitive Accumulation: A Response to Akeel Bilgrami Akeel Bilgrami’s article “Gandhi…

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Fanon: "The natives' challenge to the colonial world is not a rational confrontation of points of view. It is not a treatise on the universal, but the untidy affirmation of an original idea propounded as an absolute".

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Some people on here today acted like they just read Fanon's chapter On Violence & got fixated by the "collective catharsis" bit, but ignored the warning that turning violence (mere killing) into an end in itself disconnected from a wider political goal/vision is a trap door.

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Red Islam - Hood Communist

In the Third World, the militancy of Islam has offered a powerful tactic for mobilizing the masses against imperialism.

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@profhuq I agree with the point about popularization, but it should not equate to a dilution of its theoretical uniqueness. For eg, Marx can't be understood without his meticulously constructed concept of surplus value. The demarcation between simplification and popularization is delicate

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Is Patriarchal Capitalism Affecting Platonic Friendships?

For patriarchal capitalism, reproduction of the labour force is an economic priority. That is why we are told to grow up, fall in love, get married, and make a “family”.

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Reject anti-intellectualism | MR Online

A disingenuous trend is reemerging, bastardizing concepts of “accessibility” to attack and suppress radical efforts at political education. The focus on consistent ongoing political education is shot...

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My new article on the disingenuousness of the question "Do you condemn Hamas?"

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My article on the philosophical structure of education, published by @CosmonautMag

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Red Islam - Hood Communist

In the Third World, the militancy of Islam has offered a powerful tactic for mobilizing the masses against imperialism.

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@justinpodur I am fine. Currently pursuing secondary school education in humanities at AMU.

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Taliban Takeover: An Imperialist Catastrophe

Taliban Takeover: An Imperialist Catastrophe - The International Magz

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Reflections on Comrade Najibullah's heroic behaviour.

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@Avantikatewari Her book "the summons of love" is very inspiring...reading it in times of communalism clarified many things:

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@SublationMag @_leftaesthetics @SublationMedia @DougLain @Stranger_Things An excellent article. But it is Eddie Munson, not Munro

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The Feminist Politics Of 'Jawan'

Shah Rukh Khan's latest film Jawan re-scripts alienated masculinity and celebrates the multitudes, with a distinct feminist politics.

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“Jawan”: Reimagining Masculinity in Indian Cinema

By Yanis Iqbal Spoilers Alert! In the 2023 film Jawan, actor Shah Rukh Khan takes on the dual roles of Azad and Vikram Rathore. Azad serves as a women’s prison warden, while his father, Rathore, is…

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@YouthKiAwaaz #MyAwaaz , #PoetsOfYKA

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"That intellectuals who have made lucrative careers with tough-sounding buzzwords were so eager to condemn an actual instance of Indigenous resistance is a damning (and in my mind permanent) indictment of Western academe."

A Practical Appraisal of Palestinian Violence - Steve Salaita

Palestinian violence, a complicated and ambivalent category, requires thoughtful analysis, not Orientalist commonplaces and liberal platitudes.

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Red Islam - Hood Communist

In the Third World, the militancy of Islam has offered a powerful tactic for mobilizing the masses against imperialism.

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@justinpodur Is not that image from the Afghanistan of PDPA? Won't it subvert the imperialist consensus?

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My new article, published by @socialistprojct

Education Under Neoliberal Capitalism

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@jensensuther The Marxist-Leninist PFLP has taken a side, unconditionally supporting the Al-Aqsa flood operation. PFLP even considers Hamas to be part of the Palestinian national movement. This hardly signifies the abandonment of vision; the PFLP was the only holdout in the Hamas led govn.

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@nlasya Patriarchal masculinity is driven by a search for an impossible phallic wholeness. Since we are relational, we can never be a solitary Master. But this is not recognized by male society, which sacrifices the dynamism of the present for the promise of future deliverance.

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The Contemporary Importance of National Liberation | Dissident Voice

In today’s world, the principal contradiction is between imperialism and humanity. Giant multinational corporations are fleecing the globe for their own interests, forming international networks of...

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@GodEmpanada @AndeanComintern @ADavidTR @RealDavidG89 @VirulentVir Wages paid to Southern workers are one-fifth the level of Northern wages. For every unit of labor and resources that the South imports from the North, they have to export many more units to pay for it. Benefits of imperialism.

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@StateOf_Chassis @syndician

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PML-N And The Politics Of Praetorianism – OpEd

On June 21, 2021, an Additional Sessions Judge granted interim bail to Shahbaz Sharif and his son Hamza Shahbaz till July 10, 2021, in the Ramzan Sugar Mills scandal. The father-son duo had...

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@donaldp1917 So are Lukacs and others completely wrong in saying that reification abstracts from the qualitative essence of things, resulting in the Weberian iron cage situation?

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The Rise And Fall Of The Islamic Gunpowder Empires| Countercurrents

Islam emerged in the 7th century in the south-western corner of the Asian continent. It spread very rapidly throughout the Middle East, North Africa, and the

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My article on the incoherence of Gilbert Achcar's arguments about "Russian imperialism".

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@sparklymachine @hailewwwwshash It does not carry any essentialist connotations since it only denotes the fact that women are not accorded full individuation or societal status under a patriarchal system.

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The logic of Hegemony | MR Online

Considering the dialectic between force and consent, political society and civil society, it becomes clear that the CPI (M) in Tripura is engaged in a popular-democratic struggle aimed at the...

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Gaza Resists

Gaza. Gaza. Gaza. I keep saying the name, in the hope that, out of the morass of unlivability (undrinkable water, scarce food, flattened homes, and the

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A🧵on my article about patriarchal socialization in India: 1/ The killing of 16-year-old Sakshi in Delhi reveals the rottenness of Indian democracy and the pervasive violence against women. The political response fails to address the systemic nature of gender-based violence

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Since Indian men grow within the environment of patriarchal fascism, it is sheer ignorance to insist that “not all men” can be blamed for #SahilKhan 's violence. #SakshiMuderCase #GenderBasedViolence

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Can Pakistan Ignore the Rise of the TLP & Its Rabid Islamism?

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The Imperialist Farce of Women's Rights in Afghanistan

The Imperialist Farce of Women's Rights in Afghanistan - The International Magz

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Youth in Times of Neoliberal Crisis

A Critical Review of “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” Maliha Iqbal and Yanis Iqbal The US is witnessing the rise of fascist education. Numerous far-right

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Ethan Hunt and the Search for Truth

“Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” revolves around the threat posed by a powerful rogue Artificial Intelligence (AI) known as “the Entity,”

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Why Wednesday Addams is Not Radical Enough

The popular Netflix series “Wednesday” poses interesting questions regarding the status of counter-hegemonic political subjectivities in the contemporary

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@jensensuther It is useless to simply posit the universal standpoint of the proletariat and talk about the abolition of the value-form. That universality can be reached only through particular struggles, through the multiplicity of labor processes organized by global capitalism.

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who cannot are left at a disadvantage. In the context of the imperialist world system wherein academic apparatuses are concentrated in the Global North, such organizational inequalities disproportionately impact Global South researchers. Academia needs to reflect on the material

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@HobieHukill @khrachvik Gramsci was a Leninist and leader of the Italian Communist Party...he has been co-opted by the theoretical establishment.

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@agent_of_change @socialist_china @SpiritofHo @NoColdWar

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@0AMARJEET Can you please explain this

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@justinpodur Can you suggest any books/articles on this topic?

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@jensensuther Gramsci used catharsis to refer to the transition from particular to universal demands. One can't derive a universal working class interest from the value-form. It is formed through particular experiences of class formation that modify the simplicity of value-form abolition

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Endless Wait A beautiful story by Maliha.

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@sparklymachine @hailewwwwshash Take domestic life. It is essential for the construction of individual personality under capitalism. However, it is only the male who become individuated outside the family, and thus it is male activity that constitutes the public sphere of society.

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@richard_maurhut @donaldp1917 Well, Lukacs never said that you could separate appearance and essence, form and content. Konstantinos Kavoulakos is informative in this regard

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My latest: During the closing of the 7th Party Congress, Fidel Castro had declared: “To our brothers in Latin America and the world we must convey that the Cuban people will overcome.”

Imperialist Aggressions Against The Cuban Revolution – OpEd

Since June 11, 2021, protests have been taking place in Cuba. USA’s imperialist Mafiosos have laid their vulturine eyes on these events, sensationalizing the demonstrations as evidences of the...

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USA Only Knows the Language of Militarism via @countercurrents

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@avispartan @LeninBol Yes, there are other disparities too. But it was your denial of imperialism's benefits that I wanted to highlight. The ultimate conclusion of such facts: any internationalism must face the contradictions between the global North and South which will not go away automatically .

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@sparklymachine @hailewwwwshash Pre-social refers to the private domain in which women's bodies are circumscribed (I clarified this in the first section that talks about the movie Deewar). Whereas the public sphere of society is fully constituted, the private realm of pre-social womanhood is open-ended.

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SFI AMU

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Madagascar is going to face the world's first climate change famine. Please read my previous article on the country:

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@jensensuther Asserting the abolition of value-form as the starting point functions to theoretically unify struggles whose only unity lies in political unification. It does not help recognize what Lenin called the "variegated and discordant, motley and outwardly fragmented" aspects of struggle

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An Epistolary Poem to Patriarchs

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@Antiquelandsca1 @0AMARJEET But the relation of overdetermination that Althusser establishes between these two terms is very different from Cohen's analytical individualism which separates forces of production from relations of production - the determining factor exists prior to the determined factor.

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@phdirtbag When will it be available, comrade?

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The Feminist Politics Of 'Jawan'

Shah Rukh Khan's latest film Jawan re-scripts alienated masculinity and celebrates the multitudes, with a distinct feminist politics.

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