Karl Marx

  • Dickens, Shaw and Marx: Contrasting Approaches

    Ramkrishna Bhattacharya No two authors could be more unlike than Charles Dickens and George Bernard Shaw. Dickens was notorious for the saccharine sentimentality that pervades his novels. His rainbow humour – smiling through tears – endeared him to many readers all over the world. But there are others who complain that his appeal is invariably…

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  • Hegel, Heine, Marx: Hanuman and Sabala

    Ramkrishna Bhattacharya    In ‘The British Rule in India,’ one of his contributions to the New-York Daily Tribune, 25 June 1853, Marx waxed both passionate and indignant:   ‘We must not forget that these little [village] communities [in Hindostan] were contaminated by distinctions of caste and by slavery, that they subjugated man to external circumstances instead…

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