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What is Causing the Upheaval in Cuba?

What is Causing the Upheaval in Cuba? Anand During the Coronavirus pandemic Anti-government protests have been witnessed in several parts of the world. Most of these protests were directed against the right-wing governments who have miserably failed in tackling the … read more

December 1, 2021 AnvilContemporary • InternationalAnand Singh • Anvil-6

Pegasus Exposé, the Myth of Privacy in Capitalism

Pegasus Exposé, the Myth of Privacy in Capitalism Sunny On 15th August prime minister of India gave speech from the ramparts of Lal Quila. As usual it was a speech full of bigotry and lies. But while presenting one particular … read more

December 1, 2021 AnvilDemocratic-rightsAnvil-6 • Sunny

Data in the Time of Pandemic – A Marxist Perspective

Data in the Time of Pandemic – A Marxist Perspective Bipin Balaram During the beginning stage of the Covid pandemic, the state government of Kerala made a clandestine deal with a US data analytics firm named Sprinklr for the transfer … read more

December 1, 2021 AnvilDemocratic-rightsAnvil-6 • Bipin Balaram

A Tragic Tale of Regression into Bundist Nationalism, National Chauvinism and Trotskyism In the Name of Contemplation on Marxism and National Question

A Tragic Tale of Regression into Bundist Nationalism, National Chauvinism and Trotskyism In the Name of Contemplation on Marxism and National Question Shivani Recently a new tendency has raised its head within the movement which has exhibited a strange amalgamation … read more

December 1, 2021 AnvilContemporary • National • Polemics

Against the Idiocy and Inanity of the Trot-Bundists and National Deviationists of ‘Pratibaddha-Lalkaar’ Group

Against the Idiocy and Inanity of the Trot-Bundists and National Deviationists of ‘Pratibaddha-Lalkaar’ Group Abhinav Recently, the Trot-Bundists of ‘Pratibaddha-Lalkaar’ Group organized a seminar in Barnala, Punjab on ‘Marxism and National Question’. First of all, to readers who are unaware … read more

December 1, 2021 AnvilContemporary • National • PolemicsAbhinav Sinha • Anvil-6

Evergrande: Symptom of the Typical Malaise of Capitalism

Evergrande: Symptom of the Typical Malaise of Capitalism Abhinav Sinha The shattering crisis in the real estate market of China is symptomatic of the underlying fundamental problem of all capitalist economies: the crisis of profitability. The assumption that the state-controlled … read more

December 1, 2021 AnvilCapitalism • InternationalAbhinav Sinha • Anvil-6

Marxist Thought on the Relationship between Practice and Theory: A Contemporary Reassessment and Refutation of Certain Incorrect Interpretations

The basic proposition of materialism is that matter is primary and consciousness is secondary and consciousness is a quality of matter itself which cannot exist independently of matter. This means that there can be no existence of consciousness independent of the matter; in other words, there can be no consciousness whose source is not the material reality/material world. Pre-Marxian materialism stops exactly at this point, for which Marx criticized Ludwig Feuerbach and wrote these celebrated words: “Philosophers have so far interpreted the world in various ways, the point, however, is to change it.”

December 1, 2021 AnvilDialectical Materialism • MarxismAbhinav Sinha • Anvil-6

Is a Compulsory Official Language Needed?

Is a Compulsory Official Language Needed? V. I. Lenin The liberals differ from the reactionaries in that they recognise the right to have instruction conducted in the native language, at least in the elementary schools. But they are completely at one with the … read more

January 31, 2020 AnvilClassicsAnvil-5 • Lenin

Liberals and Democrats on the Language Question

Liberals and Democrats on the Language Question V. I. Lenin On several occasions the newspapers have mentioned the report of the Governor of the Caucasus, a report that is noteworthy, not for its Black-Hundred spirit but for its timid “liberalism”. Among … read more

January 31, 2020 AnvilClassicsAnvil-5 • Lenin

Corrupting the Workers with Refined Nationalism

Corrupting the Workers with Refined Nationalism V. I. Lenin The more strongly the working-class movement develops the more frantic are the attempts by the bourgeoisie and the feudalists to suppress it or break it up. Both these methods—suppression by force and disintegration … read more

January 31, 2020 AnvilClassicsAnvil-5 • Lenin