The First Novel about the Gig Workers of Kolkata’ by Ashoke Mukhopadhyay, translated from the Bengali by Zenith Roy.
PERHAPS the best-known foundational Marxist text (and one of the easiest to read), the Communist Manifesto is a pamphlet written jointly by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels and first published in ...
The system of predatory capitalism that we are pitted against is able to permeate our daily lives unlike any other oppressive ...
For Prof. T.K. Oommen, sociology was never a mere assemblage of abstract theories. He regarded it as a scientific instrument to grasp the pulse of a society in constant transition ...
In every index of social development, Kerala stands at the forefront among Indian States. Yet we must not forget that the ...
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Who wants to rent a human?

What could possibly go wrong? A company called Rent A Human boasts on its website that “robots need your body” and calls itself the “meatspace layer for AI.” Customers can find humans to do their ...
Some classics dominate conversations more than bookshelves. Their titles signal depth, their quotes circulate widely, yet ...
Zhang Haoxiang presents a critical political economy analysis of how capitalism has evolved in the digital age and deepened its control over people’s lives. It argues that the essence of modern ...
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Only Love Can Set the Looksmaxxer Free

By now, you’ve perhaps heard of looksmaxxers, the young men pursuing extreme physical transformation in the belief that appearance is the sole determinant of social and sexual success. If not, I’m ...
Güney Işıkara and Patrick Mokre discuss imperialism’s multidimensional nature, Karl Marx’s value theory and why a value-theoretical framework for studying the global economy is urgently needed.
On beyond Imaging towards Affirmation of Artistic Virtue: A Levinasian Ethics in Aesthetics. Open Access Library Journal, 13, 1-11. doi: 10.4236/oalib.1114874 . Imaging is fundamentally a human ...
CHENNAI: The unveiling of a new statue of German philosopher and economist Karl Marx by Chief Minister MK Stalin on Friday was not well received by a section of the opposition parties with senior BJP ...