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Making Sense of Iran Through Five Books
Premanand Mishra Since the 1979 Iranian or Islamic revolution, its contested history has been shaped by the production of narratives, propaganda and battle of patriarchy. The view from the West on Iran has largely been shaped by an Orientalist lens: oil, sanctions, proxies, nuclear aspirations and the despotic rule of Ayatollahs. For the World, Iran has been a place of unintended consequences. Energy sources, nuclear ambitions and political power of Shia Islam. But Iran, for
18 hours ago6 min read


Digital Crowds, Building Cadres: Reinventing Communist Praxis in the Age of Data Politics
Adv. Subhash Mohan Algorithm, Anger and Ideology The political insight of Lenin to observe that “the spontaneous development of the working-class movement leads to its subordination to bourgeois ideology” is profoundly relevant even today. Digital media has emerged as a decisive terrain of struggle in the contemporary political sphere, rendering it impossible for any political party to dismiss it as a mere instrument of capitalist propaganda. In recent years, the digital spac
3 days ago7 min read
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