Raju J Das
Socialist politics and revolutionary compromise
Raju J Das — As fascist movements get stronger, the question of revolutionary compromise by socialist organisations assumes greater urgency.
Lenin’s contributions to political economy
Raju J Das — Vladimir Lenin made many valuable contributions to Marxist political economy.
Capitalism, climate change and workers’ health: Notes on a research agenda
Raju J Das — Building on Friedrich Engels, this article introduces the concept of “eco-social murder” to explore the ways in which the ecological character of capitalism is killing and harming workers.
Raju J Das — In India’s complex and increasingly autocratic political landscape, Hindu supremacism is in a mutually beneficial alliance with corporates against democracy.
Intellectual and political lessons of ‘The Communist Manifesto’ for our time
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’ Communist Manifesto was published in February, 1848. It is truly a part of what Marx called world literature that capitalism has given rise to.
On the worker-peasant alliance in India (and other countries of the Global South)
Raju J Das — For peasants to enhance their success in getting their demands met in India (as elsewhere in the Global South, with its belated capitalist development), there must be a worker peasant alliance.
How to think and write theoretically and critically about society
Raju J Das — There is a growing consensus that the society we live in is not working for the vast majority. This society must be radically transformed. And this task of radical transformation presupposes studying society better – that is, in a scientifically rigorous and critical way.
Theory and class struggle: A dialectical approach
Much of the knowledge, and especially that which comes from academia and media, is extremely problematic. It is often too empirical, lacking the ability to provide general explanations of phenomena under study.