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Spectacle and Spy Stories: The 1954 Royal Commission on Espionage
ABSTRACT The Menzies government's 1954 royal commission, established to investigate Soviet espionage in Australia, is well known as the backdrop to the Labor Party split. It saw opposition leader H.V. Evatt's demise and ushered in an almost 20‐year period of Liberal Party governance.
Ebony Nilsson
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Entre a publicação de O desenvolvimento do capitalismo na Rússia (1899) e a elaboração de O programa agrário da social-democracia na primeira revolução russa (1905-1907), a evolução das ideias de Lenin a respeito do movimento camponês e da questão da terra levou-o a rever certas formulações e a enunciar a tese das duas vias possíveis para o ...
Leonid Smilovitsky, Martin Dean
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Marxism and Decolonizing Praxis: From Decolonial Misinterpretations to Marxist Contributions
ABSTRACT This article intervenes in postcolonial and decolonial critiques that portray Karl Marx and Marxism as intrinsically Eurocentric and inattentive to race, colonialism and non‐European revolutionary agency. It argues that such critiques often rely on selective, historically limited interpretations that overlook Marx's later writings, in which he
Ana Cecilia Dinerstein
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Marxism a Trojan horse Communism is not a direct danger at this moment in South Africa. Communism is fought against by the government. Terrorism is our daily enemy. Communism is forbidden by law.
H. G. van der Westhuizen
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A Causal Map Framework to Explain Support for Strong Leaders in Politics
ABSTRACT The article introduces a computational theory explaining why some people support strong leaders in politics, arguing that this support sometimes arises because people view a strong leader as means to address social problems. The theory proposes that people develop a causal map concerning the consequences of the rise of a strong leader.
Francesco Rigoli
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The Capital–Labour–State Dynamics of Herbicide Adoption in Rainfed India
ABSTRACT This paper engages debates around the capital–labour–state dynamics of agrarian transitions to address the oft‐studied but still little‐understood question of why farmers adopt herbicides when they do. Over the last several years, smallholder farmers in India have begun using the herbicide bispyribac sodium at breakneck speeds, particularly in
Carly Nichols, Nidhi Kumari
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Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things: A Communist Critique
When Arundhati Roy’s semi-autobiographical novel, The God of Small Things, was published in 1997, it received both praise and criticism. While many critics and reviewers from around the world praised it for its technical virtuosity and thematic concerns,
VIKRANT SEHGAL
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Authorial and Responsive Discretion: Evaluative Authority and the Reorganization of Dependency
ABSTRACT Dependency has long structured agrarian political economy, explaining how producers are embedded in markets, capital circuits and regulatory regimes. This paper argues that dependency remains indispensable yet analytically incomplete without attention to evaluative authority.
Michael Carolan
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ABSTRACT This article explores Russia's genocidal discourses on Ukrainians, focusing on the predominant narrative that frames cultural genocide as the ‘liberation’ of Ukrainians through the erasure of their cultural identity. Existing literature tends to overlook this form of genocidal discourse, which diverges from typical ‘othering’ by instead ...
Martin Laryš
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ABSTRACT The Russian Military Historical Society (RMHS) was founded in 2012 on President Vladimir Putin's orders. Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the society's members have not only published propaganda to support the ‘special military operation’ but have discussed the need for a proper ‘state ideology’.
Kati Parppei
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