The Caste and the Peasant question in present-day India

ARUP BAISYA The dynamics of social categories are based on their creation and recreation within the garb of overarching social reality. The caste-identity has a sui generis characteristic in Indian society. But the changing dynamics of shaping and reshaping of the caste identity need to be assessed in the context of the overall situation and...

Dogmatic Marxist strategy: An introductory note

ARUP BAISYA The staticity of mindset in Marxist praxis emerges from two mutually exclusive theoretical underpinnings. Marx explained the laws of motion of modern society as both the laws of motion that produce society and the laws of motion produced by society. But the practicing Marxists either end up being mechanistic or constructivist by positioning...