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Gramsci and Lenin on Transcending ‘Parliamentarism’ and on Direct Democracy

Posted By: adminon: August 18, 2025In: GovernanceTags: Direct democracy, Gramsci, Lenin, Marxism, NEP, Paris Commune, RussiaNo CommentsViews:
Gramsci and Lenin on Transcending ‘Parliamentarism’ and on Direct Democracy

Although now reconceptualised in different ways from Gramsci’s, income economist and City University of New York (CUNY) academic, Branko Milanovic delivers on the classical Gramscian v... Read more

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Cecelia Abashi, the Death of an Extraordinary Woman

Posted By: adminon: February 22, 2024In: People in ActionTags: Lenin, NANS, Nasarawa Eggon, Overcomer, SCON, UnokaNo CommentsViews:
Cecelia Abashi, the Death of an Extraordinary Woman

Plagiarising Bongos Ikwue’s iteration that the Bible must be right is unavoidable here. It is, however, not in where the Bible assures those who knock of finding. Here, it is where the Bible... Read more

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Prof Adele Jinadu’s Missing Coalition

Posted By: adminon: February 21, 2024In: FlashbackTags: Bolivia, DA, Gramsci, Lenin, Mammangida, SCON, Socialism, WinnebaNo CommentsViews:
Prof Adele Jinadu's Missing Coalition

By Adagbo Onoja Nigeria’s Prof Adele Jenaidu has been the source of a number of conceptual innovations of late. Hardship and hunger should not prevent us from further engagement with t... Read more

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The Bull Plateau Killings Compel Nigeria to Take By the Horns

Posted By: adminon: January 07, 2024In: De-EscalationTags: Dr. Bala Usman, Dr. Segun Osoba, Eastern Europe, Elite escapism, Emir of Katsina, Governor Muftwang, Industrialisation, Jassawa versus Jankassa, Land in itself, Lenin, Mercenaries, Middle – Belt, Regulatory agencies, Sabon-GariNo CommentsViews:
The Bull Plateau Killings Compel Nigeria to Take By the Horns

By Adagbo Onoja There is an angle to resolving the phenomenon characterised by violence on the Plateau that has, however, not featured in the discursive formation around the latest round of... Read more

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Lenin Would Have Become a Maoist – Paul Sweezy and Harry Magdoff

Posted By: adminon: July 08, 2023In: FlashbackTags: Capitalism, Castro, Cultural Revolution, Growth, Lenin, Mao, Marx, Monopoly capitalism, SocialismNo CommentsViews:
Lenin Would Have Become a Maoist - Paul Sweezy and Harry Magdoff

This is not a recent interview but Paul Sweezy and Harry Magdoff are two big names in political economy that many might not care about the time they said whatever they said. Not if they are... Read more

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In Death, Mikhail Gorbachev Turns a Refutation as Well as Confirmation of Marxist Theory of Agency

Posted By: adminon: September 03, 2022In: FlashbackTags: Boris Yelstin, CPSU, Great October Revolution, Lenin, Marxism, Realism, USSRNo CommentsViews:
In Death, Mikhail Gorbachev Turns a Refutation as Well as Confirmation of Marxist Theory of Agency

Until an insider writes on the last 30 years of his life, (1991 – 2021), it would be difficult to know how Mikhail Gorbachev, the last General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet... Read more

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As the Nigerian Left Tackles the National Question

Posted By: adminon: May 10, 2021In: GovernanceTags: Christendom, George Floyd, Internationalism, Islam, Left, Lenin, Marxism, National Question, Nationalism, USSR, ‘Grass to Grace’No CommentsViews:
As the Nigerian Left Tackles the National Question

With just four more days to go, it is not gonna be a long wait before a statement from the Nigerian Left on the national question is made. That is a statement that could reverberate at the h... Read more

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17 Years of Chris Abashi’s Passage Today

Posted By: adminon: March 15, 2021In: People in ActionTags: Lenin, Mrs Cecilia Abashi, NANS, SCONNo CommentsViews:
17 Years of Chris Abashi's Passage Today

It is exactly 17 years today that one of the earliest presidents of the defunct National Association of Nigerian Students, (NANS), Barrister Chris Abashi died. That was March 15th, 2004. The... Read more

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Ogene-Amejo Gets Electricity, A Big Deal in Rural Development in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: January 29, 2021In: GovernanceTags: Electricity, Lenin, Okpokwu LGA, Railway, SocialismNo CommentsViews:
Ogene-Amejo Gets Electricity, A Big Deal in Rural Development in Nigeria

If Lenin’s pragmatic synthesis of Socialism to electricity and the railway is anything to go by, then it could be said that one, remote Nigerian village is now in a state of ‘Socialism’. Tha... Read more

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Who Holds the PRP Together After Abdulkadir Balarabe Musa?

Posted By: adminon: November 12, 2020In: GovernanceTags: Lenin, Nasara, NEPU-PRP, Radio Kaduna, Socialism, ‘Democracy in Action’No CommentsViews:
Who Holds the PRP Together After Abdulkadir Balarabe Musa?

The death Wednesday, November 11th, 2020 of Second Republic governor of Kaduna State, Alhaji Abdulkadir Balarabe Musa did not come as a shock to anybody. At 84 and in a classical ‘Third Worl... Read more

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