Raju J Das

Raju J Das — There is a need to not only understand what Lenin said on the national question and political oppression, but also study his ideas in light of the current world conjuncture.

Raju J Das — Only a Marxist political vision can guide the exploited and oppressed toward choosing socialism over such barbarism.

Raju J Das reflects on how Marxists should respond to the current conjuncture, marked by a series of profound economic, political and ecological crises. 

Raju J Das — The Indian mainstream left faces a paradox: while support for socialistic principles is on the rise, it appears to be in decline.

Raju J Das — As fascist movements get stronger, the question of revolutionary compromise by socialist organisations assumes greater urgency.

Raju J Das — Vladimir Lenin made many valuable contributions to Marxist political economy.

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.

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.

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.

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.