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  • Is Buhari Necessary for Jagaban’s ‘Forward to the Past’ in 2023?
  • Akinterinwa, Jega, Osaghae to Discuss Nigeria @ a NIIA-University of London Forum
  • From Lancaster House to Chatham House: When Shall Nigeria be Truly Independent?
  • At 79, Angela Davis is Still Fighting for a Better World
  • Memories of the Old Academia As Plateau State University Awards Prof Elaigwu Honorary Degree
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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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The Evolution of Karl Marx: A Review of Kevin B. Anderson’s ‘Marx at the Margins’

Posted By: adminon: April 06, 2022In: SpectacleTags: Abraham Lincoln, American Civil War, Asiatic mode of production, David Ryazanov, Emancipation Proclamation, Marxism, Unilinear scheme of historyNo CommentsViews:
The Evolution of Karl Marx: A Review of Kevin B. Anderson’s 'Marx at the Margins'

It is important that, in the age of nationalism, heightened racism and all manner of identity convulsions, someone illuminates what Marx actually subscribes to at the time he was writing and... Read more

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Socialism and Religion Are Not Antagonistic of Each Other – Major Adeyi, HoD, Political Science, University of Jos

Posted By: adminon: March 28, 2022In: BookspaceTags: Chief Awolowo, Eneke the bird, Marxism, Obafemi, Ontological standpoint, Religion, UPNNo CommentsViews:
Socialism and Religion Are Not Antagonistic of Each Other - Major Adeyi, HoD, Political Science, University of Jos

The original intention for putting a call through to him was to question his daily practice of dispatching religious texts through his WhatsApp. It is not that the religious text messages ar... Read more

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Putin’s Lasting State?

Posted By: adminon: February 24, 2022In: De-EscalationTags: Deglobalisation, Faith in the good Czar, Karl Marx, Marxism, Natioalism, Peter the Great, Russian Empire, Sovereignization, The deep nationNo CommentsViews:
Putin's Lasting State?

This piece differs from others in that it was written by someone who was then a high state official working closely with Putin. When it first appeared in 2019, it attracted hostile reception... Read more

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Peeping Into Putin and Putinism

Posted By: adminon: February 20, 2022In: SpectacleTags: Africa, Banal Nationalism, Boris Yeltsin, Chechnya, GWOT, KGB, Liberalism, Marxism, Putinism, Russian NationalismNo CommentsViews:
Peeping Into Putin and Putinism

By Intervention Whether he invades Ukraine or pulls back the armada, Putin is an interesting subject of intellectual scrutiny and speculation. No other leader combines in himself all the key... Read more

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How to Take Nigerian Universities to World Class Universities Again

Posted By: adminon: January 16, 2022In: BookspaceTags: Africa, Analyticism, Critical realism, Deconstruction, Edward Said, International Relations, Marxism, Neopositivism, NUC, PhD, Post-positivism, Postmodernism, Rationalism, Reflexivity, ‘Cartesian anxiety’No CommentsViews:
How to Take Nigerian Universities to World Class Universities Again

Intervention’s commitment to emancipation compels it to keep an eye on knowledge production, knowledge being a form of representation and representation being a form of power vis-à-vis emanc... Read more

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The Constitution Goes Digital, Takes on the National Question in Current Edition

Posted By: adminon: October 13, 2021In: BookspaceTags: 'Militant particularism', Ernesto Laclau, Marxism, National QuestionNo CommentsViews:
The Constitution Goes Digital, Takes on the National Question in Current Edition

In the very journal dry academic atmosphere in Nigeria today, The Constitution can be rated to be on top of intellectual discourse in Nigeria. The Editor, Sylvester Odion Akhaine, a Professo... Read more

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China as Great Power Unfolds Further, Plays Up Clean Records Card in Colonialism @ Party’s Centenary

Posted By: adminon: July 01, 2021In: World From AfricaTags: 'Century of humiliation', Africa, Communist Party of China, Marxism, US, west, ‘Socialism with Chinese characteristics’No CommentsViews:
China as Great Power Unfolds Further, Plays Up Clean Records Card in Colonialism @ Party’s Centenary

The centenary of the Chinese Communist Party is providing China a strategic opportunity for the rhetorical offensive, this time playing up its clean record as far as colonising others is con... Read more

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4th Year of the Passage of Prof Abubakar Momoh

Posted By: adminon: May 28, 2021In: LifeworldTags: Adigun Agbaje, Bala Mohammed, Marxism, Muhammadu Abubakar Rimi, PhD, PostcolonialismNo CommentsViews:
4th Year of the Passage of Prof Abubakar Momoh

A few hours from now, it would be four years since Prof Abubakar Momoh bided the world good bye. The belief that the social is discursive rather than foundational carries with it the respons... Read more

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Resolving the Significance of ‘Eddie @ 75’

Posted By: adminon: May 13, 2021In: SpectacleTags: 'Actually existing socialism', Articulatory politics, Marxism, Popular culture, RationalismNo CommentsViews:
Resolving the Significance of ‘Eddie @ 75’

It  would be difficult to know how Left activists would answer the question of what the overarching significance or the question as to what exactly is at stake in ‘Eddie @ 75’. It is sure to... Read more

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