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Tag: Primitive accumulation of capital

  • Nationalism as the Religion of the Modern West

    Nationalism as the Religion of the Modern West

    Orientation The emergence of a strange, secular god  “I am the Lord Thy God, Thou Shalt not have strange gods before me” is not just a religious commandment. Every nation-state expects their citizens to give up or subordinate their regional loyalties, their class, their ethnicity and even their religion to this new god. If we […]

  • Degrowth: How Anti-Worker Would It Be?

    Degrowth: How Anti-Worker Would It Be?

    The year 2023 saw the hottest Summer on record in the northern hemisphere while those in the southern hemisphere felt the hottest winter on record. It was followed by a Fall with terrifying storms and floods across the globe. The number of people attributing climate catastrophe to economic growth is mounting. Not all agree that […]

  • Marx, Gandhi and Primitive Accumulation: A Response to Akeel Bilgrami

    Akeel Bilgrami’s article “Gandhi and Liberal Modernity: The Vexed Question of Caste” undertakes a materialist interpretation of Gandhi’s thought against the background of capitalism and the agrarian question. Gandhi’s idealization of precapitalist communities is given “descriptive” dignity as an implicit grasp of the inapplicability of the Marxist notion of “primitive accumulation” to India. While those […]

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