gramsci

  Re-reading Antonio Gramsci lately, in preparation for a webinar organized by the Dean, School of Social Sciences, University of Hyderabad on “Gandhi, Ambedkar, Gramsci”, I was struck by an aspect of his thought that I had not really understood in all its dimensions earlier. This aspect is directly related to the relationship between subalternity … Continue reading Gramsci, the “Puranic” and Shekhar Gupta →

This is a modified version of the article that was published earlier in The Wire (T)he economic dialectic is never active in the pure state; in History, these instances, the superstructures etc – are never seen to step respectfully aside when their work is done or, when the Time comes, as his pure phenomena, to … Continue reading ‘Revolution against Das Kapital’ and the ‘Lonely Hour of the Economy’

A brief history of the real plan of the banker-backed Illuminists, consummated in the ‘Great Work’ of erecting the “liberal,” Orwellian Brave New World.