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ThinkLeft #11 - Power to the People

ThinkLeft #11 - Power to the People

What’s Up With China: Chinese Socialism vs Capitalism

What’s Up With China: Chinese Socialism vs Capitalism

Zhun Xu, Associate Professor of Economics, John Jay College and Graduate Center, CUNY

The Problem With Parliamentary Democracy

The Problem With Parliamentary Democracy

Arveent Kathirtchelvan, Head of Science and Technology Bureau, Parti Sosialis Malaysia Youth

Indian Maoism

Indian Maoism

Bidyut Chakrabarty, University of Delhi | Ahmad Fuad Rahmat, University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus

Marxism: Back to Basics

Marxism: Back to Basics

Yuva Balan, Sosialis Alternatif | Ahmad Fuad Rahmat, University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus

Engels and Materialism

Engels and Materialism

Yuva Balan, Sosialis Alternatif | Ahmad Fuad Rahmat, University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus

Communism in India

Communism in India

Bidyut Chakrabarty, University of Delhi | Ahmad Fuad Rahmat, University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus

Unplugging from the Capitalist Matrix

Unplugging from the Capitalist Matrix

Tim Rackett, independent scholar | Ahmad Fuad Rahmat, University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus

The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State

The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State

Yuva Balan, Sosialis Alternatif | Ahmad Fuad Rahmat, University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus

What does it mean to be a Socialist today?

What does it mean to be a Socialist today?

Howard Lee, International Union of Socialist Youth

Imagining the Subaltern

Imagining the Subaltern

Imran Rasid, Imagined Malaysia | Netusha Naidu, Imagined Malaysia | Ahmad Fuad Rahmat, Projek Dialog | Sharaad Kuttan, BFM 89.9

Marx in Malaysia

Marx in Malaysia

Yin Shao Loong, Institut Rakyat | Sivarajan Arumugan, Parti Sosialis Malaysia | Yuva Balan, Committee for a Workers' International | Ahmad Fuad Rahmat, Projek Dialog

Pessimism of the Intellect

Pessimism of the Intellect

Ahmad Fuad Rahmat, Projek Dialog | Sharaad Kuttan, BFM 89.9

The Subaltern Can't Podcast

The Subaltern Can't Podcast

Zizek and His Discontents

Zizek and His Discontents

Douglas Shang, Masters Student, University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus | Ahmad Fuad Rahmat, Projek Dialog

Night School: Freedom and False Consciousness

Night School: Freedom and False Consciousness

Ahmad Fuad Rahmat, Projek Dialog | Sharaad Kuttan, BFM89.9

 
 




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