I. To understand the complexity of socialism, it is best to take a broad historical perspective on the actual development of socialist movements.1 Particular attention should be paid to an often-overlooked aspect of this development – the continuous experiments that have accompanied the history of the socialist movement. Some of these experiments have succeeded, while […]
The current historical conjuncture is characterised by multiple crises and conflagrations, from the fratricidal war between Russia and Ukraine, to the resistance of Francophone Africa against neocolonialism, to the struggles waged by millions of people to access basic necessities such as food and housing even in supposedly wealthy countries like the United States. In the
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⏵ Listen to Wiyathi na Ithaka – Joseph Kamaru [Listen to Wiyathi na Ithaka (‘Freedom and Land’), an anthem of the Mau Mau rebellion against British colonial rule, sung by Joseph Kamaru.] ‘Who are those singing? Why are they crying? They are singing for their hero coming from the forest’. Sung in Gĩkũyũ, these
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Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels never left the socialist movement with a blueprint for building a new society out of the contradictions of capitalism. They merely provided a concrete analysis of the movement of capital, that too based on their access to resources outlining the development of capitalism primarily in Europe. In fact, they were
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