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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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A Dialectical-Materialist Perspective on the Minorities Question in Nigeria and National Development

Posted By: adminon: June 03, 2025In: FlashbackTags: Marxism, Middle – Belt, Minorities, Nationalities, Niger Delta, Northern region, Stalin, Willinks CommissionNo CommentsViews:
A Dialectical-Materialist Perspective on the Minorities Question in Nigeria and National Development

By Usman Sarki ‎”Thus, a nation is not a racial or tribal, but a historically constituted community of people”, J. V. Stalin The making of a community of people into a nation is... Read more

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How Kole Shettima’s 65th Birthday Symposium Turned Into a Rhizomatic Moment

Posted By: adminon: February 13, 2025In: GovernanceTags: 'Historic Block', ABU Zaria, CDD, Imperialism, MacArthur, Marxism, Military rule, Philanthropy, UI, ‘Collective will’, ‘Omoluabi’No CommentsViews:
How Kole Shettima’s 65th Birthday Symposium Turned Into a Rhizomatic Moment

Rhizomatic moment is the inescapable grammar for capturing the discontinuously interconnected issues, situations, people, outcomes, models, symbols, memories and even facts that tie together... Read more

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Marxism’s Ultimate Counter Offensive in ‘The Sage Handbook of Marxism’

Posted By: adminon: January 26, 2025In: SpectacleTags: Africa, African universities, Antonio Gramsci, CIA, Critical theory, Deconstruction, Ernesto Laclau, Hegemony, Jacques Derrida, Marxism, Michel Foucault, Peronism, Poststructuralism, theoryNo CommentsViews:
Marxism’s Ultimate Counter Offensive in ‘The Sage Handbook of Marxism’

By Adagbo Onoja The months of December 2024 and January 2025 can be ceded to the tribe of Marxists in Nigeria as their months. Prof Bene Madunagu was buried January 18th, 2025. She is a Marx... Read more

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Prof Rauf Ayoade Dunmoye: Tribute to a Scholar and Mentor

Posted By: adminon: January 12, 2025In: People in ActionTags: ABU Zaria, CODESRIA, CPS – Yola, Dares Salam School, Dr. Bala Usman, Dr. Patrick Wilmot, ECOMOG, Emman Udoka, FASS, Fellowship of Christians Students, Hajiya Najaatu Mohammed, Hon Rima Shawulu, Ibadan School of History, IGP Etim Inyang, Marxism, MPN, Ms Julie Sanda, NDA, PhD, Prof Paul Izah, Prof Peter Ekeh, Prof Sonni Tyoden, YUSSANNo CommentsViews:
Prof Rauf Ayoade Dunmoye: Tribute to a Scholar and Mentor

By Prof Gani Yoroms It has taken me a long time to write this tribute but it is still with a heavy heart that I do so. The moment I heard of the death of Professor Dunmoye, a friendly and be... Read more

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Prof. Jibrin (Jibo) Ibrahim, the Scholar-Activist and a Marxist, Turns 70

Posted By: adminon: December 09, 2024In: People in ActionTags: Ahmadu Bello University - Zaria, Billy Dudley Annual Memorial Lecturer, CDD, CRD, Dr. Bala Usman, Dr. Patrick Wilmot, Dr. Yusuf Bangura, General Mamman Kontagora, Marxism, Prof Bjorn Beckman, Prof Okey Ibeanu, University of Bordeaux1 CommentViews:
Prof. Jibrin (Jibo) Ibrahim, the Scholar-Activist and a Marxist, Turns 70

By Prof Hassan A. Saliu Prof. Jibrin Ibrahim marked his 70th birthday on December 2, 2024. He was born in 1954. I was indeed in Abuja that day, but my role as the President made it difficult... Read more

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A Few Hours to the 70th Anniversary of ‘History As Iconoclast’, Prof Jibrin Ibrahim

Posted By: adminon: December 01, 2024In: People in ActionTags: 'Jibogram', 70th anniversary, Carl Schmitt, DEMOCRACY, Ibrahim Tahir, Left, Marxism, Modernism, ‘Polycrisis’No CommentsViews:
A Few Hours to the 70th Anniversary of ‘History As Iconoclast’, Prof Jibrin Ibrahim

It is an event with all the potentials of exploding into a carnival and, in a totally unplanned manner, transform from politics into something political in the Carl Schmitt sense of the poli... Read more

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Requiem for the Very Impeccable Prof Ochapa Onazi Ahead of Burial

Posted By: adminon: August 25, 2024In: People in ActionTags: BENSU, BUK, COCIN, Faculty of Pharmacy, Gindiri Compound, IDOMA, Igumale, Imperial College London, Justice Mustapha Akanbi Panel, Karl Kumm University, Kwararafa University, Marxism, Ten Commandments, UCL, UI, UNIJOSNo CommentsViews:
Requiem for the Very Impeccable Prof Ochapa Onazi Ahead of Burial

There is a way that writing about someone as Prof Ochapa Onazi (ahead of his burial on September 26/27, 2024) forces up the theory of the everyday which says that the socialisation of Idoma... Read more

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Professor ‘Rauf Ayoade Dunmoye: Human Capacity Developer and Political Economist: My Reminiscences (1)

Posted By: adminon: August 24, 2024In: GovernanceTags: Baba Zaria, Dr. Bala Usman, Dr. Patrick Wilmot, Marxism, North, Offa, UNILORIN1 CommentViews:
Professor 'Rauf Ayoade Dunmoye: Human Capacity Developer and Political Economist: My Reminiscences (1)

By Prof Hassan Saliu Since the news of his demise hit the airwaves, there has been an outpouring of grief from his family members, friends, students, colleagues and acquaintances. Reading th... Read more

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6 More Hours To August 1st, 2024 Protests in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: July 31, 2024In: De-EscalationTags: 'Historic Block', Communist Party secretary, IGP Egbetokun, Latin America, Marxism, Politburo, Post-Cold War civil society, Radical populism, SGF George Akume, ‘Collective will’No CommentsViews:
6 More Hours To August 1st, 2024 Protests in Nigeria

It is a few hours to the start of the drama on August 1st, 2024. The expectation that Nigeria’s President Tinubu will make a major concession to the build-up against the regime before mid-ni... Read more

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