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Taking notes 45: Singapore radical: Lee Kuan Yew

March 31, 2015April 21, 2015 sanjay perera

by Sanjay Perera Old age hath yet his honour and his toil; Death closes all: but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods. The lights begin to … Continue reading Taking notes 45: Singapore radical: Lee Kuan Yew

‘Left-wing’ childishness and the petty-bourgeois mentality

March 3, 2015March 3, 2015 sanjay perera

by V. I. Lenin The publication by a small group of “Left Communists” of their journal, Kommunist (No. 1, April 20, 1918), and of their “theses”, strikingly confirms my views expressed in the pamphlet The Immediate Tasks of the Soviet … Continue reading ‘Left-wing’ childishness and the petty-bourgeois mentality

When was the crisis of capitalism? The legacy of the 1960s New Left

November 4, 2014November 4, 2014 sanjay perera

by Chris Cutrone Lenin stated, infamously perhaps, that Marxists aimed to overcome capitalism “on the basis of capitalism itself.” This was in the context of horrors of not only industrial exploitation but also and especially of war: WWI. Lenin was … Continue reading When was the crisis of capitalism? The legacy of the 1960s New Left

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The ‘Failure’ of Communism: a ‘Fall’ narrative

October 28, 2014November 4, 2014 sanjay perera

by Roland Boer Communism has ‘failed’, or so the common observation goes. More often, one hears the opinion that the Soviet Union ‘failed’, or that the communist countries of Eastern Europe did so as well. But what does ‘failure’ mean … Continue reading The ‘Failure’ of Communism: a ‘Fall’ narrative

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