Marxism | Intervention

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:

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

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:

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

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:

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

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:

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

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:

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

4th Year of the Passage of Prof Abubakar Momoh

Posted By: adminon: May 28, 2021In: People in ActionTags: Adigun Agbaje, Bala Mohammed, Marxism, Muhammadu Abubakar Rimi, PhD, PostcolonialismNo CommentsViews:

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

Resolving the Significance of ‘Eddie @ 75’

Posted By: adminon: May 13, 2021In: SpectacleTags: 'Actually existing socialism', Articulatory politics, Marxism, Popular culture, RationalismNo CommentsViews:

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

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:

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

Omotoye Olorode: Theoretician, Intellectual and Revolutionary Extraordinaire

Posted By: adminon: April 28, 2021In: SpectacleTags: 1st Tricontinental Conference of the Peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America, Babangida, Marxism, Marxist Youth Movement, NLC, OSUA, Prof Olorode, The weapon of theoryNo CommentsViews:

Ahead of the event later today on, about and around Prof Toye Olorode of Nigeria, Omolade Adunbi, another Nigerian and a Professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States ser... Read more

Death of Prof Moses Tedheke and the NDA Inaugural Lecture That Will Not Be Delivered

Posted By: adminon: December 21, 2020In: People in ActionTags: Afrocentrism, Ancient Egypt, Chiekh Anta Diop, Eurocentrism, History, Inaugural Lecture, Marxism, NCO, NDA, PharoesNo CommentsViews:

At his age, anything could happen but the way his voice rang out on the phone each time he called kept such thoughts away. When it happened at 6. 30 pm December 21st, 2020, it came as a surp... Read more