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democratic centralism
What does democratic centralism mean to the CPI(M)?
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Wilting down
After, months of writing, not writing, redrafting, brooding here’s what I have to say:
Chapter 1: Tackles Nancy Fraser’s argument about the relationship between recognition and redistribution with examples from the Indian social movement organization I am studying. It shows the difficulty of building a working class women’s movement in the face of religious, caste, and [...]
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18th Brumaire
Clues from 18th Brumaire:
The first French Revolution, with its task of breaking all separate local, territorial, urban, and provincial powers in order to create the civil unity of the nation, was bound to develop what the monarchy had begun, centralization, but at the same time the limits, the attributes, and the agents of the governmental [...]
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XXXXX is forming coalitions by bringing women from diverse backgrounds together. It is altering structures of feeling. It is creating another molecularity through the organization in the sense of D&G’s line of flight/notion of molecular. What is that line of flight? It is that which allows them to critique Hindu and Muslim religion and their [...]
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Leninst structure?
I am convinced when I look at examples from history that Communism has a totalitarian impulse but need to explain how does a Communist organization become rigid in structure (jargon). What is the difference in rigidity of let’s say, Google, the U.S. Democratic Party, or the Congress Party in India and Chinese Communist party, [...]
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I had an interesting conversation with an anthropologist friend of mine the other night. I made the claim that Communist organizations tend to be totalitarian and that, I think, there in some thing in the nature of the Communist ideology that lends itself to controlling speech. My anthropologist friend argued that any large [...]
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