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Topic: Marxism

Marxism extinguishes democratic rights the moment it captures power: MA Venkata Rao

Being founded on class war, any State founded on Marxism is bound to set itself in opposition, bitter and all-out, against all other nations, libertarian commentator MA Venkata Rao wrote in 1963.

Kerala has an education crisis. Student migration has doubled since 2020

A supplement dedicated to the Invest Kerala Summit had to share space with a half-page ‘Study Abroad’ advertisement—a fair depiction of the predicament the state finds itself in.

Ignorant lefties waving the Constitution are basically saying there was no India before 1950

The lefties are passing on to their comrades-in-arms the subliminal message that there was no civilisation, no society, no culture before 26 January 1950. But India and Indians created the Constitution, not the other way around.

MN Roy was to Marxism what Vivekananda was to Hinduism. He separated spirit and form

In ‘Indian Ideas of Freedom’, Dennis Dalton looks at how freedom was perceived by Indian thinkers like BR Ambedkar, Rabindranath Tagore and Gandhi.

In today’s China, Marxism is back to rein in ‘disorderly expansion of capital’

In 2013, before Xi Jinping became China's president, he had said that the 'historical materialist view that capitalism is bound to die out and socialism bound to win' isn't outdated.

India needs to challenge colonialism in its own language. But solution isn’t Hindu worldview

There's no cut-off time to recover India's 'indigenous consciousness'—it's the product of a colonial mindset. Think across traditions, ask real questions.

Revisioning India’s future? Start with Marxism, without the baggage

For the younger Indians, Marxism is a weird, extremist and extinct ideology of the past. Here's how you can recover what is valuable in Marxist ideology.

Jesuits believe in sanctity of human life, like Constitution. Stan Swamy stood for the poor

Marxism, that came centuries later than Catholic Church, has adopted certain elements of ‘liberation theology’ like opposition to inequality and exploitation.

Marxist Jesuits are not for tribal welfare. India and Indian Catholics both must realise that

Marxist Catholic priests in India are no longer happy focusing on old-fashioned parish work. Instead, they want to guide tribals towards ‘revolutionary Marxism’.

Xi Jinping’s brand of Marxism needed a boost. China’s war against coronavirus will be useful

Rather than causing Communist China to crumble, the virus will serve as a catalyst in Xi’s bid to show his brand of Marxism as a challenge to global capitalism.

On Camera

Youth Congress, your foolish protest helped the Modi govt climb out of the AI summit hole

In tactical terms, the shirtless protest was worse than a self-goal. Suddenly, the fiascos of the AI Summit were forgotten, and the Youth Congress’s disruption became the issue.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

MoD, IAF agree on some exemptions to HAL for Tejas Mk1A, but no compromise on ‘must-have’ capabilities

IAF is fine with accepting the aircraft with 'must-haves', even if some other steps remain pending, which may take at least another year, it is learnt.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.