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A CRITIQUE OF THOMAS PIKETTY'S 'CAPITAL IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY' - 5

A CRITIQUE OF THOMAS PIKETTY’S ‘CAPITAL IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY’ – 5

  CONTAINING CAPITAL – 5

  Prasanna K Choudhary

            Karl Marx

3. CAPITAL SOCIAL AND SELF-EXPANDING (Continued) – 3

FETISH CAPITAL

“The relations of capital assume their most externalized and most fetish-like form in interest-bearing capital. We have here M → M′, money creating more money, self-expanding value, without the process that effectuates these two extremes. ….

It is a…

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REVISITING NATIONALISM - 2

REVISITING NATIONALISM – 2

REVISITING NATIONALISM  – 2       

Prasanna K Choudhary

EUROPE AND THE REST OF THE WORLD

The self-identity of European countries as ‘nations’ was invariably linked with the process of denying and destroying the identities of so many tribes, societies and…

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अनन्त का छंद - 1

अनन्त का छंद – 1 एक तत्वशास्त्रीय विमर्श प्रसन्न कुमार चौधरी एक पूर्वावलोकन 1. बीसवीं सदी में जहाँ अध्ययन की विभिन्न शाखाओं का पर्याप्त प्रसार हुआ, वहीं तत्वशास्त्र को काफ़ी हद तक अपनी ज़मीन छोड़नी पड़ी । पूंजीवादी विश्व में परिणामवाद और तार्किक प्रत्यक्षवाद के प्रादुर्भाव के साथ तो तत्वशास्त्र मानो गहरी नींद सो गया । समाजवादी विश्व के लिए द्वन्द्वात्मक भौतिकवाद आखिरी खोज थी । सवाल महज उसकी…

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The COVID-19 Pandemic is the ‘Most Discriminatory Crisis’ Females Have Experienced, Says the Head of U.N. Women — TIME

The COVID-19 Pandemic is the ‘Most Discriminatory Crisis’ Females Have Experienced, Says the Head of U.N. Women — TIME

UNITED NATIONS — The head of UN Women called the COVID-19 pandemic “the most discriminatory crisis” that women and girls have ever experienced on Monday, pointing to women losing jobs far more often than men, a “shadow pandemic” of domestic violence, and 47 million more women being pushed into living on less than $1.90 a…The COVID-19 Pandemic is the ‘Most Discriminatory Crisis’ Females Have…

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We Are Ruled By Wizards

Bending reality is as simple as bending people’s perception of reality. Throughout history, the mythology of civilizations around the world has been full of tales of men and women who mastere…

Bending reality is as simple as bending people’s perception of reality. Throughout history, the mythology of civilizations around the world has been full of tales of men and women who mastered a mysterious, esoteric art which enabled them to use language in a way that […]

Lacey Roop - “For Billy” (WoWPS 2014)

"Crack the glowsticks in your halo. Burn so beautiful that if the sun ever looked at you he’d go blind." Performing during prelims at the 2014 Women of the World Poetry Slam.

Dr B R Ambedkar (14.04.1891 - 06.12.1956)

Great social reformer, philosopher, jurist, political leader, historian and economist. Independent India's first Law Minister and Chairperson of the Constitution's Drafting Committee (29.08.1947 - 24.01.1950).

A few quotes from his writings:

"Every act of independent thinking puts some portion of apparently stable world in peril."

"For a successful revolution, it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights."

"What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights."

"Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies government."

"I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved."

"Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence."

Today is his 123rd birth anniversary.

A quiet spring weekend was suddenly shattered on Sunday when news of the “Panama Papers” investigation broke.

अनन्त का छंद - 9

अनन्त का छंद – 9 प्रसन्न कुमार चौधरी टिप्पणियाँ 1. “दोनों (इतिहास और प्रकृति के अध्ययन के) मामले में आधुनिक भौतिकवाद सारतः द्वन्द्वात्मक है और उसे अन्य तमाम विज्ञानों से ऊपर किसी तत्वशास्त्र की अब ज़रूरत नहीं रह गई है । जैसे ही चीजों, और चीजों कके हमारे ज्ञान की विराट समग्रता में अपनी स्थिति स्पष्ट करना प्रत्येक पृथक के लिए ज़रूरी हो जाएगा, वैसे ही इस समग्रता से जुड़ा एक विशेष विज्ञान भी…

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