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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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Reflections on the legacy of the Frankfurt School, 100 Years After

Posted By: adminon: January 22, 2023In: FlashbackTags: Alternative modernities, Critical race theory, Derridean deconstruction, Eurocentrism, Foucaultian genealogy, Frankfurt School, Jacques Derrida, Marx, Postcolonial theoryNo CommentsViews:
Reflections on the legacy of the Frankfurt School, 100 Years After

It is 100 years of Frankfurt School which gave the world what is known in social theory today as ‘Critical Theory’ (different from critical theory which is much more plural). The world of sc... Read more

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Lenin and the National Question In the Context of the Agitation for “Restructuring” in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: December 29, 2021In: De-EscalationTags: 'True Federalism', Eurocenticism, Internationalism, Josef Stalin, Marx, Restructuring, Self-determination, ‘Autonomisation’No CommentsViews:
Lenin and the National Question In the Context of the Agitation for “Restructuring” in Nigeria

Both those in approval as well as those in disapproval of Ambassador Usman Sarki’s re-interpretation of Lenin on the national question in his essay below are encouraged to write back. For a... Read more

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How Africa Got It Wrong and Is Still Getting It All Wrong – Prof Chimalum Nwankwo

Posted By: adminon: August 08, 2021In: World From AfricaTags: CHINA, Colin Powell, Colonialism, Deconstruction, Early Warning, Literature, Marx, Nollywood, Okonkwo, Racism, Space ExplorationNo CommentsViews:
How Africa Got It Wrong and Is Still Getting It All Wrong - Prof Chimalum Nwankwo

Concluding the Prof Chimalum Nwankwo interview is this installment, the first installment of which ran under the header: “The More Unstable Nigeria is, the Better for the West – Prof Chimalu... Read more

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The Joy of Reading in Time of Pandemic

Posted By: adminon: May 12, 2020In: BookspaceTags: Aristotle, Machiavelli, Marx, UNESCO, William Shakespeare, World Book DayNo CommentsViews:
The Joy of Reading in Time of Pandemic

By Ibrahim Lawal Ahmed* To promote reading, publishing and copyright, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) set aside April 23rd of each year as World... Read more

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Caution: Robots @ Work!

Posted By: adminon: March 16, 2018In: FlashbackTags: Capitalism, Chief Zebrudaya, Germany, Marx, RobotsNo CommentsViews:
Caution: Robots @ Work!

The video below is of robots at work at a Mercedes factory in Stuttgart in Germany. Intervention has captioned it as “From ‘Men @ work’ to ‘Robots @ work’ at a Mercedes factory in Stut... Read more

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A Book and Its Kudos and the Knocks

Posted By: adminon: November 03, 2017In: SpectacleTags: ARDP, CHINA, IMF/World Bank, Marx, NGOs, Preface, Second National Development Plan, STAND, WTONo CommentsViews:
A Book and Its Kudos and the Knocks

Beginning right away in the Preface with an admission of northern specificity to the underdevelopment crisis in Nigeria, this interesting documentation steps in to how alarming the existenti... Read more

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Bongos Ikwue @ 75: Indeed, the Artist as the Unacknowledged Legislator of the World

Posted By: adminon: June 06, 2017In: GovernanceTags: 'Otachikpokpo', Ada Ugah, Ahmadu Bello University - Zaria, Ali Mazrui, AP Anybebe, Chinua Achebe, Einstein, Electrical Engineering, Hausa, Igbo, Kwararafa Empire, Marx, Michel Foucault, Okonkwo, Onyakeke, YorubaNo CommentsViews:
Bongos Ikwue @ 75: Indeed, the Artist as the Unacknowledged Legislator of the World

At 75 today, with a name, a voice, musical successors in the family, the health and the energy as well as an ambitious musical project ahead and, therefore, a totality that has lodged him in... Read more

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