Socialism

Chinese socialism with Xi characteristics

CPC Futures is a one-stop guide to understanding the changes in China's domestic and foreign policy directions and their immediate and long-term effects for the world

Xi Jinping swears by Marxism to make China first modern socialist country

Poised for record third five-year term and perhaps for life, Chinese President Xi Jinping's high-voltage Marxist rhetoric on Sunday with a vow to make China a modern socialist country has raised hackles at home and abroad that the Communist giant, which for decades relegated the ideology to the background, could be taking the turn to the extreme left. "From this day forward, the central task of the Communist Party of China (CPC) will be to lead the Chinese people of all ethnic groups in a concerted effort to realise the Second Centenary Goal of building China into a great modern socialist country in all respects and to advance the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation on all fronts through a Chinese path to modernisation," Xi said in his marathon speech at the key Congress of the party on Sunday. "Only by taking root in the rich historical and cultural soil of the country and the nation the truth of Marxism flourish here," he told the over 2,300 delegates of the week-long 20th Congress,

Amit Shah to visit Bihar on Jayaprakash Narayan's 120th birth anniversary

Union Home Minister Amit Shah will visit the birthplace of Jayaprakash Narayanan, popularly known as JP, in Bihar's Saran district on Tuesday to attend the 120th birth anniversary celebrations of the socialist icon. Accompanied by UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Shah will reach Sitab Diara via Varanasi. He will unveil a life-size statue of JP in Sitab Diara and address a public gathering. Elaborate security arrangements have been made for the home minister's visit, officials said. This will be Shah's second visit to Bihar after the BJP was ousted from power in the state. Earlier, he visited Purnea and Kishanganj in the Seemanchal region on September 23.

Need a better reason to come to office, 80% of Indian employees say: Report

According to the 2022 Work Trend Index Pulse Report conducted by Microsoft, 91 per cent of the employees want to go to the office on the prospect of socialising with their co-workers

Twitter introduces Circle globally, allows users to make smaller groups

People in the circle will see a green badge under Tweets sent to the group. These Tweets cannot be Retweeted.

Talk of socialism adds spice to abrasive UK leaders' debate in race for PM

Rishi Sunak accused Foreign Secretary Liz Truss and former Defence Secretary Penny Mordaunt, his two closest rivals, of "socialism" as he attacked their plans to cut taxes and borrow more

BJP people don't understand socialism, they need to read again: Akhiles

His attack came a day after CM Yogi accused him of "dumping" socialism and praised the his uncle Shivpal Yadav, crediting him for "keeping alive" ideals of towering socialist leader Rammanohar Lohia

The free rider problem of Hindutva

Political free-riding happens everywhere because even though people don't actively espouse a cause, they don't disapprove of it enough either

Red caps of Samajwadi Party in limelight in run-up to UP Assembly polls

The SP chief Akhilesh Yadav has made it an identity mark of the party due to which even without taking its name, it can can be attacked.

Letter to the Editor: Identifying Indian Right

Strong nationalism is always a defining feature of our ideological leaning, says BJP spokesperson

In Karnataka's politics of identity, new CM Bommai has to strike balance

There is a land deal controversy to settle and river water disputes to negotiate but his first challenge will be forming a council of ministers that pleases everyone.

Did central planning end in July 1991?

Government picking winners is alive and well

Things India must do to be a functioning social democracy

If even a modest but growing social welfare package is to be affordable, the public sector has to perform or be disbanded so that the govt can shut down one of the two cash burners, writes T N Ninan

The ideology of social scientists: A complex balance

The conflict between liberty and equality is often central to ideological differences among social scientists

Sinofication of Buddhism: In Tibet, China wants more wealth, less Buddha

Beijing is investing heavily in Tibet, betting that new roads, jobs, better housing and improved access to education and healthcare will bring stability to the region.

Social democracy and capitalism: The fraught link

Different people mean different things when they talk of social democracy and its somewhat close kin, democratic socialism

Prospects of social democracy in a post-pandemic world

This should be seen as neither a straight prediction nor just wishful thinking, more a clear-eyed analysis of constraints and opportunities that social democrats may face or have to be prepared for

Plea in SC to remove 'socialist' and 'secular' from Constitution's preamble

The PIL said that the amendment made in 1976 was antithetical to the constitutional tenets as well as the historical and cultural theme of India

Modi, Williamson and Alesina

Williamson and Alesina were both economists who offered insights that India must follow over the next two decades. If it doesn't, it can resign itself to its current low-grade economic status.

Maoism: A Global History is a milestone in describing a harrowing legacy

Julia Lovell's book on Maoism is concerned with understanding the phenomenon of Maoism when it swept the globe, in some places politically and in most places ideologically and intellectually.