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‘Living within the lie’: Václav Havel's 1978 dissident cry that Mark Carney took to Davos 2026
February 02, 2026 4:56 pm
Coined by dissidents under communism, a phrase from Václav Havel’s 1978 essay resurfaced at the World Economic Forum as Prime Minister Mark Carney urged middle powers to abandon comforting fictions about the global order.
Communism in India is let down by its own incoherence
January 14, 2026 12:05 pm
The communists have not produced any serious literature or political thesis in several decades. Since the 1990s, they have been focused, that too in a shallow manner, on the RSS-BJP.
For semiconductors and GPS, thank C V Raman, Satyendra Nath Bose, Einstein — and hay fever in 1925
December 31, 2025 11:41 am
One century after the Helgoland breakthrough, quantum principles have entered popular culture through the mythical Schrödinger cat. So profound was this work that every reigning doctrine — from communism and Buddhism to Vedanta — took positions on what quantum science means for its worldview
C Raja Mohan writes: Indian Communism is 100 years old. And it's too early to write its obituary
December 17, 2025 7:45 am
The conditions that once gave rise to communism — deep inequality, agrarian distress, precarious labour, the persistence of feudal values, and global economic turbulence — are sharper than ever. There is also renewed global interest in socialist and left-wing ideas, even in advanced economies
How Kerala eliminated extreme poverty
October 27, 2025 6:03 pm
The state’s Left legacy, the re-orientation of politics and economy under the ‘New Left’, the existing robust welfare system and a turnaround in the economy all contributed to this success
In chargesheets against Madhya Pradesh activist, police cite books on communism, fascism as evidence
October 24, 2025 10:03 am
The activist, Saurav Banerjee, founder of a youth collective, was granted bail last week
To understand Trump's trade war, look back to Marx and Lenin
May 02, 2025 8:01 pm
The alternative is not a return to classical neoliberalism, which itself nurtured inequality and imperialist domination, but an organised effort towards socialism — rooted in the legacies of Marx, Lenin and the revolutionary movements they inspired
Dravidianism and communism share ideological friendship, will stay forever: Stalin
December 29, 2024 3:02 pm
The "political friendship" between Dravidianism and communism may have taken the occasional break, M K Stalin said in an apparent reference to alliance regrouping, "but the ideological friendship will continue under all circumstances."
UPSC Essentials | This Quote Means: 'The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains'
June 26, 2023 4:24 pm
On the centenary week of the USSR's official creation, a look at a famous quote from Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels that inspired the Soviet experiment. It also finds relevance in the World History section of the UPSC syllabus, under GS paper 1.
Last Czechoslovak communist leader Milous Jakes dies at 97
July 15, 2020 9:19 pm
Milous Jakes had been general secretary of the party for only two years before the Velvet Revolution led by the late writer, Vaclav Havel, ended 40 years of communist rule.
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