Category: Political Theory
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Revisiting the Constitution Part 1: Rule of Law, A Myth Among Unequals
This is part one of a four part series on the Indian Constitution. “A constitution of myth and denials” is the phrase Sarat Chandra Bose has used to describe the Indian Constitution. The Constitution of India is a living, breathing document; meant to reflect the principal values of the Indian society. However, what does it…
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Defeat the Ruling Class Prop of Post-Modernist Identitarian Thoughts Through Active Ideological Struggle!
Introduction: Imperialism On the Offensive At times when the world imperialist crisis advances towards its apex, revolutionary conditions also objectively emerges in various parts of the world. The capitalists’ failing imperialist economy has given rise to mass hunger, destitution, and deaths due to lack of health facilities, job losses and highly entangled social lives. The…
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Imperialism at the Wheels: Re-evaluating the Indian Queer Movement
In 2014, the Indian Supreme Court passed a verdict in favour of recognizing the legal right to gender self-determination, legally recognizing for the first-time rights of transgender persons in the Indian context.1 Subsequently in 2018, the same court overturned various other jurisprudence to declare Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code unconstitutional for its parts…
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The Inevitability of Revolution
Over a century ago, a 25-year-old trade-union leader in Italy made an earnest appeal to the workers. He asked them to reject bourgeois newspapers, to boycott them. He reminded every worker that, “he must always, always, always remember that the bourgeois newspaper (whatever its hue) is an instrument of struggle motivated by ideas and interests…
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