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The Oceanic Circle: Talk on the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi

Dilip Simeon — 2024-10-12T13:23:20Z

(Text of the talk delivered by Dilip Simeon on October 2, 2024 at the Gandhi Peace Foundation, New Delhi)
The bane of our life is our exclusive provincialism, whereas my province must be co-extensive with the Indian boundary so that ultimately it extends to the boundary of the earth. Else it perishes

- 2024

A Political Man: Memories of Ranajit Guha | Dilip Simeon

Dilip Simeon — 2023-10-14T00:28:29Z

NB: This is an extended reminiscence of a conversation about Ranajit Guha and the Naxalite movement. The conversation was arranged at the request of the Bangla journal Anustup; and took place between me and a History honours student at the University of Delhi. (I am obliged to Anustup for having prompted this remembrance. It is due to appear in Bangla shortly). It is based on a transcript of that conversation, but has been considerably revised. It took place on July 16, 2023; which (…)

- 2023

Militant capitalism, bad infinity, and the longing for total revolution | Dilip Simeon

Dilip Simeon — 2023-08-05T07:08:59Z

[marron]NB: This work-in-progress paper was a contribution to a conference hosted by the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Bergen, Norway. The conference( May 31-June 2, 2023) was titled 200 Years of Socialism: Revisiting the Old Dilemmas: First Annual Global Research Programme on Inequality Lecture [[https://gripinequality.org/event/the-grip-annual-lecture-2023]marron]
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Abstract: The Bolshevik confiscation of the Russian revolution was indeed a ‘bifurcation point', (…)

- 2023