Absolute power & absolute corruption

ThE above title is not just paraphrasing Lord Acton's famous 1887 observation in a letter to a friend (Mandell Creighton). Scholars exploring the explosive corruption cases in this 21st Century, supposedly the most democratic moment in modern state history, also seem to be constantly corroborating its veracity. It is not...

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The relevance of Marx today

Karl Marx, whose 200th birth anniversary was observed recently, is arguably one of the greatest thinkers of all ages. Billion copies of his books, particularly the magnum opus Das Capital, have been sold in different languages all over the world since its appearance in 1867. One of the most powerful...

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