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The Homogenisation of Education
EDUCATION in post-independence India was supposed not just to provide knowledge and skills to students, but also to facilitate the process of “nation-building” (to use a clumsy word). Since the concept of an “Indian nation”, although it existed in a rudimentary…
Misconceptions about Agriculture https://t.co/0BWBTeTyNz #PeoplesDemocracy #Prabath #EconomicNotes— Marxist Reader (@marxistreader) Nov 3, 2021
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Misconceptions about Agriculture
THERE are a number of misconceptions about Indian agriculture which, if not removed forthwith, can have potentially adverse effects on the ongoing kisan agitation against the three farm laws. The first of these is the belief that corporate encroachment on…
The Scourge of Demonetisation https://t.co/7UqJ6kjoPs #PeoplesDemocracy #Prabath #EconomicNotes— Marxist Reader (@marxistreader) Nov 12, 2021
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The Scourge of Demonetisation
IN the entire history of post-independence India, no single economic measure has been as devastating for the people and as utterly futile in achieving its stated objectives, as the demonetisation of currency notes, of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 denomination, decreed…
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Fiscal Folly
THE Modi government has been raising taxes on petro-products as its main instrument of resource mobilisation for government spending. This ironically has the dual effect of not stimulating the economy, but stimulating inflation instead. An alternative fiscal…
The Peasantry’s Victory over Imperialism https://t.co/EEFbBdFtgm #PeoplesDemocracy #Prabath #EconomicNotes— Marxist Reader (@marxistreader) Nov 26, 2021
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The Peasantry’s Victory over Imperialism
PARTICULAR battles often have a significance that goes beyond the immediate context, of which even the combatants may not be fully aware at the time. One such was the Battle of Plassey, which was not even a battle since one side’s general had already been…
The Strangulation of the MGNREGS https://t.co/jhgZ4fSuyn #PeoplesDemocracy #Prabath #EconomicNotes— Marxist Reader (@marxistreader) Dec 3, 2021
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The Strangulation of the MGNREGS
THE MGNREGS was introduced by the UPA-I government despite opposition from the neo-liberal lobby within it, owing inter alia to the active intervention of the Left which was supporting that government from outside. It was restrictive from the beginning: it…
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India’s Post-Pandemic Economic Recovery
THE pandemic alas is not yet over, but there are no economic disruptions in the current fiscal year in the form of lockdowns or workers’ absence. The economy’s performance therefore can no longer be attributed to the prevalence of the pandemic; whatever it…
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US Inflation and India’s Economic Recovery
THE very day, December 11, when the Indian finance ministry spuriously claimed a robust recovery in the post-pandemic Indian economy, newspapers carried news of an acceleration in the US inflation rate. The inflation rate in November 2021 over November of…
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Privatisation and the Constitution
IN a recent report the People’s Commission on the Public Sector and Public Services has rightly drawn attention to the sheer un-constitutionality of the Modi government’s plan to privatise en masse the assets of the public sector. The constitution of the…
Yet Another Contradiction of Capitalism https://t.co/AniHzXPDtY #PeoplesDemocracy #Prabath #EconomicNotes— Marxist Reader (@marxistreader) Dec 31, 2021
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Yet Another Contradiction of Capitalism
IN the United States there are still four million persons who remain unemployed compared to before the pandemic; and yet the Biden administration’s attempt to stimulate the economy has already run into a crisis with the re-emergence of inflation not just…
Co-Lending: Towards Recolonising the Peasantry https://t.co/1p0U5nVdXj #PeoplesDemocracy #Prabath #EconomicNotes— Marxist Reader (@marxistreader) Jan 7, 2022
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Co-Lending: Towards Recolonising the Peasantry
IN colonial times, the peasantry had to borrow from private moneylenders. According to Provincial Banking Enquiry Committee reports, these moneylenders in turn borrowed from commercial banks. But while disbursing credit to the peasants and charging exorbitant…
Financial Markets Under Capitalism https://t.co/nff4IowkkF #PeoplesDemocracy #Prabath #EconomicNotes— Marxist Reader (@marxistreader) Jan 14, 2022
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Financial Markets Under Capitalism
ONE of the most important arguments advanced by John Maynard Keynes, the renowned economist, was that the operation of financial markets under capitalism is deeply flawed. Such markets are intrinsically incapable of distinguishing between “enterprise” where…