Tag Archives: Abhinav Sinha

Fragmentary Notes on a Few Pertinent Questions of Marxist Political Economy in the Special Context of Certain Ongoing Debate

Fragmentary Notes on a Few Pertinent Questions of Marxist Political Economy in the Special Context of Certain Ongoing Debate Abhinav Communists seek truth from facts, not the other way round. In other words, theory is the scientific generalization of the experience of practice. … read more

December 2, 2021 AnvilContemporary • Marxism • Political-economyAbhinav Sinha • Anvil-6

How Not To Think “Politically” On The Peasant Question In India

How Not To Think “Politically” On The Peasant Question In India Abhinav Rosa Luxemburg had once reportedly said that ‘peasant question’ is one of the two wounded points of the Russian Revolution (the other being the ‘national question’). About the … read more

December 2, 2021 AnvilCommunist-movement • National • PolemicsAbhinav Sinha • Anvil-6

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

The Re-election of Narendra Modi: A Representative Example of How Fascism Functions in the Twenty-first Century

The Re-election of Narendra Modi: A Representative Example of How Fascism Functions in the Twenty-first Century Abhinav Sinha This essay was written immediately after the re-election of Modi with even bigger mandate in May, 2019, when the most of the … read more

January 31, 2020 AnvilContemporary • FascismAbhinav Sinha • Anvil-5

Problems of the Revolutionary Communist Movement in India: The Question of Program and Strategy

Problems of the Revolutionary Communist Movement in India: The Question of Program and Strategy Abhinav Sinha There has long been a controversy on the characterisation of the Indian social formation and the stage of Indian Revolution. There is a considerable … read more

January 31, 2020 AnvilCapitalism • Communist-movement • NationalAbhinav Sinha • Anvil-5

Marxism and the Question of Identity

Marxism and the Question of Identity Abhinav Sinha The question of identity has remained a debatable issue among Marxists-Leninists since at least four decades. The question, in effect, pertains to a Marxist understanding of social oppression based on identity. The … read more

January 31, 2019 AnvilMarxismAbhinav Sinha • Anvil-4

The Tragic Regression of Anand Teltumbde

The Tragic Regression of Anand TeltumbdeFrom ‘Mahad: The Making of First Dalit Revolt’ to ‘Bridging the Unholy Rift’ Abhinav Sinha A year ago, I had read Anand Teltumbde’s book ‘Mahad: The Making of the First Dalit Revolt’. I found it … read more

May 31, 2018 AnvilCaste QuestionAbhinav Sinha • Anvil-3

Marx’s Capital : 150 Years and Beyond

Marxism is not an aggregation of everything that Marx said or did. Marxism is a worldview, approach and a method. This worldview and method of materialist dialectics is Marx’s epochal contribution to science. As Lenin said, Marx could never write his planned separate treatise on materialist dialectics, but he left us Capital, which is the application of the materialist dialectics in the arena of economic phenomena. read more

January 31, 2018 AnvilMarxismAbhinav Sinha • Anvil-2