Marxism
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Poison Trees: Mythological Fiction & Hindu Values – 1: Fixing the Bow
Arkacandra Jayasimha, cross-posting a May 2026 series, answers a Centre for Studies in Hindu Conservatism essay on mythological fiction, arguing in part one that its reading of Marx’s ‘opium of…
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The Fading Red
The author explains the context of a poem written from the perspective of The Communist Manifesto, prompted by a Žižek–Peterson debate and by memories of reading the book in 2019,…
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Dr Manzur Ejaz. 1949-2025
An obituary of Dr Manzur Ejaz (1949-2025), Punjabi writer and Marxist activist who died in Virginia. It records his belief that defending the Punjabi language is central to working-class politics,…
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Romila Thapar: An Interview, and Some Thoughts
After an interview with Romila Thapar, the author accepts her ideal of the sceptical historian but asks what her overall worldview is, whether Marxist, and what vision of India she…
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The Indian cultural Left is in India, but not of India
Razib Khan argues that Arundhati Roy should be understood as part of a global English-speaking cultural Left, not as typical of India or the Islamic world, where Left politics persists…
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Browncast Ep 36: Karl Smith, Communist to neoliberal
On Browncast Episode 36, Bloomberg columnist and former economist Karl Smith, raised in an orthodox Marxist family and now a nonpartisan neoliberal, discusses his experience as a black American intellectual,…
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Pakistan, communists and a stained dawn
The reposted piece uses the band Laal and Faiz’s poem ‘Umeed-e-Seher’, an anthem of Pakistan’s 2007 lawyers’ movement, to explore Marxists in Pakistan and argue that international media ignore stories…
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100 Years of Marxist Revolution..
With links to centenary reviews, the author replies that early Marxists can be excused but their heirs cannot, and suggests Marxism persists because, like a religion, it appeals to both…
