Repressive measures taken by the British government to quell Indian nationalist agitation meant that expansions of the franchise regarding legislative councils were met by mistrust: Indian politicians in Bengal refused to participate in the 1920 elections, and formally adopted a… — Ash Sarkar Copy Share Image
Here's the problem with downplaying the radical nature of decommodification: when you empty something of political content, politicians are free to wield symbols as they please. — Ash Sarkar Copy Share Image
But communism is the only thing which says all things should be brought into the hands of commons to benefit all people. In the… — Ash Sarkar Copy Share Image
The reason Brexiteers have been so effective is that they have made the fight about broad political values. — Ash Sarkar Copy Share Image
As a long-termist, I acknowledge there are more pressing causes than the abolition of private property. — Ash Sarkar Copy Share Image
Britain's done a lot of changing in the past 50 years. The decline of manufacturing and heavy industry under Margaret Thatcher ripped the economic… — Ash Sarkar Copy Share Image
Our priorities are all wrong if we only care about how long people are in prison for, and not what goes on inside them,… — Ash Sarkar Copy Share Image
It is up to us to push for a transformation in political culture in which the basic human dignity of migrants is unequivocally respected. — Ash Sarkar Copy Share Image
International Women's Day, if it is to claim any kind of political relevance, has to reject ladies' Christmas consumerism and lowest-common-denominator universalism. Look beyond… — Ash Sarkar Copy Share Image
Not all cultural borrowing is a form of social violence: some of it is just cringe. — Ash Sarkar Copy Share Image
The launch of the National Health Service in 1948, one of the world's foremost examples of something being decommodified in the interest of the… — Ash Sarkar Copy Share Image
Offering a politician's non-apology that accepts everything but responsibility isn't the same as accountability. — Ash Sarkar Copy Share Image
Ezra Pound was a pioneer of the most exciting aesthetic movement of the 20th century. — Ash Sarkar Copy Share Image
