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Why did Karl Marx say "If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist"?

In 1880 Marx was assisting French socialists in writing the program for the Worker's party of France, and had some serious disagreements with them. Marx had issues with demanding better work conditions and wages from the bourgeoisie. This is where the quote comes into proper context.

Marx wanted to destroy the idea that if demanding such reforms from the capitalists is believed to be mainstream Marxism, then he is not a Marxist.

The question is why Marx was against demanding such reforms in favor of the workers?

Well, for Marx those were tools to dilute the worker’s revolutionary spirit. Such reforms will keep the workers in delusion of a better future and keep them incorporated in the bourgeois culture.

In the communist manifesto, Marx warns his readers that one of the most dangerous Bourgeois is the one who will propose free healthcare and other social benefits because the workers will be appeased, not realizing their condition and their alienation and instead work within the confine of the system. Workers will not emancipate because the system will absorb them into it.

Therefore, Marx was actually destroying the delusion of the moderate socialists who did not see the need of a revolution or overthrow of the capitalist system rather resorted to parliamentary politics and democratic reforms to enhance the condition of the working class.

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental production.

#புத்தகம் #பேசுது

Newton's Philosophi Naturalis Principia Mathematica புத்தகத்தின் கையெழுத்து பிரதி Thomas Fisher என்ற Canada நூலகத்தில் தான் வைக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது . அதே நூலகத்தில் தான் Communist Manifesto கையெழுத்து மூலப்பிரதியும் உள்ளது.

சமீபத்தில் richard dawkins அந்த நூலகத்திற்கு வருகை புரிந்தார்.
ஏற்கனவே அவர் Danish Royal நூலகத்திற்கு சென்று " The Master and Margarita " புத்தகத்தின் மூல பிரதியை தேடியிருக்கிரார் . அங்கு அது இல்லை .

பிறகு Thomas fisher நூலகத்தில் அது கிடைத்துள்ளது .ரஷ்யா மொழியில் mikhail bulgakov எழுதிய புத்தகம் அது.

"என்னை நாத்திகனாக்கிய புத்தகங்களில் ஒன்று " என்று கூறி மூலப்பிரதியை வாஞ்சையோடு அவர் தடவும் காட்சியை சமீபத்தில் நண்பர்கள் whatsapp இல் பகிர்ந்து இருந்ததனர் .

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பெண் ஏன் அடிமை ஆனாள்
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சுதந்திர தமிழ்நாடு
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ரஷ்யாவின் வெற்றி
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பெண் விடுதலை சட்டங்களும் பார்ப்பனர்களும்
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மனிதமும் மதமும்
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பக்தர்களுக்கு சில கேள்விகள்
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தமிழர்கள் இந்துக்களா
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திராவிடர் திருமணம்
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அழிவு வேலைக்காரன்
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ஆத்மா மோட்சம் நகரம்
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இந்து மத பண்டிகைகள்
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கடவுளர் கதைகள்
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இயற்கையும் மாறுதலும்
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இராமாயண பாத்திரங்கள்
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இராமாயணக் குறிப்புகள்
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இளைஞர்களே உங்களுக்குத் தெரியுமா?
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இனி வரும் உலகம்
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உயர் எண்ணங்கள்
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கிராமங்கள் ஒழியவேண்டும்
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சித்திரபுத்திரன் விவாதங்கள்
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சமஸ்கிருத சனியன்
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புத்தர் விழா
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புரட்டு இமாலயப் புரட்டு
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புராணங்களை எரிக்க வேண்டும்
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பொது தொண்டு
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பொதுவுடமை சமதர்மம்
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மனு சாஸ்திரத்தை எரிக்க வேண்டும் ஏன்.
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மதம் மாறினால் குற்றமா
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Das Kapital, Vol 1—150 Years


Rereading
Das Kapital in the 21st Century
http://www.epw.in/journal/2017/37/das-kapital-vol-1-150-years/rereading-das-kapital-21st-century.html

The Structure and Content of
Das Kapital
http://www.epw.in/journal/2017/37/special-issues/structure-and-content-das-kapital.html

The Significance of
Marx’s Theory of Money
http://www.epw.in/journal/2017/37/das-kapital-vol-1-150-years/significance-marxs-theory-money.html

A Marxist Approach to Understanding Ecology
http://www.epw.in/journal/2017/37/das-kapital-vol-1-150-years/marxist-approach-understanding-ecology.html

Capital(ism), the Progenitor of Socialism
http://www.epw.in/journal/2017/37/das-kapital-vol-1-150-years/capitalism-progenitor-socialism.html

Rereading Das Kapital in the 21st Century Marx’s Capital (three volumes) offers a unified framework to make sense of some of the most troubling issues facing humanity today, in particular, rising economic inequality, deepening economic instability, and growing unsustainability of human–nature interactions, signifying a looming planetary cri...

... You did everything you were supposed to do and still find yourself empty and unfilled, a realization to the broken promises of the world.

Society makes promises, unspoken contracts, particularly with women, for what it deems acceptable and appropriate,
rules that restrict you to a rigid path of being:
be a good girl,
don’t make trouble,
don’t get into trouble.

Want what we tell you to want,
get what we tell you to get, and
you will be rewarded somehow.

Want the husband and the child and the home (and it all) but for God’s sake never act like you want it.

Then, they promise, you will be satisfied.
But I’m not satisfied. I don’t know what to do with the academic degrees I earned. I don’t know if I want the babies my body is running out of time to carry.

Authors like Jeffrey Eugenides. His novel,
The Virgin Suicides, has become a modern classic exploring the depressive minds of young women.

https://electricliterature.com/literature-needs-angry-female-heroes-e6a56e0cebc4

Article Refers following books.

1. Mrs Dalloway by Virginia woolf
2. The Women upstairs by claire messud
3. The Bell jar by Sylvia Plath
4. The virgin suicides by jeffrey eugenides.

Literature Needs Angry Female Heroes – Electric Literature Looking beyond Plath and Woolf (and their characters) for models of managing depression

Her very first lines in the novel:
"How angry am I ?
you dont want to know.
Nobody wants to know about that."

The invisible opponent society prepares her
decisions she was forced to make, giving up her passion (art) for a career in teaching,
losing her mother, her quiet, small life.

She rants:
“It was supposed to say “Great Artist” on my tombstone, but if I died right now it would say ‘Such a good teacher/daughter/friend’ instead; and what I really want to shout, and want in big letters on that grave, too is F**K YOU ALL.”

Section 375 of the IPC
dealing with r**e makes an exception for instances of forced in*******se within marriages and holds that “sexual in*******se by a man with his own wife, the wife not being under 15 years of age, is not r**e”.

The Justice Verma committee, formed in the wake of the 2012 Delhi gangr**e, had recommended removing the exception made for marital r**e in the law.

Similarly, the report ‘Status of Women in India’, by the high-level Pam Rajput committee of the Ministry of Woman and Child Development, criticised the legislature for its failure to criminalise or even recognise marital r**e in the Criminal Laws (Amendment) Act 2013.

But still the government has expressed its unwillingness to criminalize marital r**e.

அரை ஏக்கர், 335 குடிசை, 3000பேர்,
ஒரு சுவர் - பழைய இந்தியாவை புதிய இந்தியா பார்வையிலிருந்து மறைப்பதற்காக ஒரு கான்கிரீட் சுவர்.

துப்புறவு & குப்பை அல்லுதலை
வாழ்க்கையின் Promising career choice
ஆக தேர்வு செய்யும் குழந்தைகள்.
இதுதான் அன்னாவதி குடிசைப்பகுதி .

21 நூற்றாண்டில் உலக பொருளாதார மாற்றத்தின் மிகப்பெரிய, சமமற்ற நகரங்களில் ஒன்றான மும்பையில் தங்களது சிறந்த வாழ்க்கையை நோக்கி போராடுகின்ற அண்ணாவதி குடிசைப்பகுதியின்
குடும்பங்களின் இதயம் உடைந்த கதைகளின் தொகுப்பு இந்த புத்தகம்.

pulitzer விருது பெற்ற நியூயார்க் எழுத்தாளர் Boo மூன்று வருடங்களுக்கும் மேலாக, வேகமாக மாற்றமடைந்துவரும் பரந்த நாட்டில் ஒரு சிறிய மூலையில் திணிக்கப்பட்ட மூன்று குடும்பங்களின் வாழ்க்கை வழியே அன்னாவதியை ஆய்வு செய்து ஆவணப்படுத்திருக்கிறார் .

கடந்த ஐந்தாண்டுளில் வாசிக்க வேண்டிய முக்கியமான புத்தகம் Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity.

பெற்ற விருதுகள் :

2012 National Book Award, winner, Nonfiction category.

2012 National Book Critics Circle Award, finalist, Nonfiction category.

2012 Samuel Johnson Prize, shortlist.

2012 Guardian First Book Award, shortlist.

2012 New York Times bestseller

2012 Salon What to Read Awards

2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Current Interest)

2013 PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award, winner.

2013 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism, winner.

"Kazuo Ishiguro" is the one individual genius creator who uses aesthetically sophisticated expressive forms to cast light on what we are meant to think is worthy of our life.

His Novel " Remains of the Day " is one of
Jeff Bezos’s ( Amazon CEO ) favourite books. He claims it is the foundation of his “regret-minimization framework”( https://youtu.be/jwG_qR6XmDQ ) and helped him to find the courage to start Amazon.

In this novel, story narrator retells the poignancy of his realisation how has,
in effect, wasted his life.
Through him we can trace the process by which we begin to lose the ability to separate ourselves from our professional roles, and also how class subordination ruins people’s lives.

Similar to William Faulkner's The sound and fury , where the several same events are seen successively from different points of view,
The Remains of the Day is one of those wonderful books that can be read at several levels.

Reception :

In 2007, The Remains of the Day was included in a Guardian list of "Books you can't live without"

In 2009 included in "1000 novels everyone must read" list.

Awarded the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1989.

Preventing women’s entry to the Sabarimala temple, takes away the woman’s right under Article 15(1) of the Constitution and curtails her religious freedom assured by Article 25(1).

The managerial rights of religious authorities under Article 26(b) of the Constitution cannot override the individual woman’s religious freedom guaranteed under Article 25(1).
The former is intended to safeguard, not annihilate, the latter.

Do all women have a right to enter Sabarimala? LEFT | KALEESWARAM RAJ Prohibition of women’s entry to the shrine solely on the basis of womanhood is derogatoryKaleeswaram RajKaleeswaram Raj The Supreme Court of India has repeatedly struck down di

The population of the planet is close to 7 billion in 2012, and global output is slightly
greater than 70 trillion euros, so that global output per capita is almost exactly
10,000 euros. If we subtract 10 percent for capital depreciation and divide by 12,
we find that this yields an average per capita monthly income of 760 euros, which
may be a clearer way of making the point. In other words, if global output and the
income to which it gives rise were equally divided, each individual in the world would
have an income of about 760 euros per month.