CHARVAKA

Rationalism. Secularism. Freedom

Karl Marx

  • Dickens, Shaw and Marx: Contrasting Approaches

    RAMKRISHNA BHATTACHARYA

    Comparing two distinct radical responses to Charles Dickens, Ramkrishna Bhattacharya explores how George Bernard Shaw and Karl Marx evaluated the Victorian novelist. While Shaw criticized Dickens’s lack of formal philosophy yet celebrated his revolutionary potential, Marx bypassed literary ideology entirely, delighting instead in using Dickens’s vivid characters as sociological tropes for political satire.

  • Marx and the Materialist Tradition in Indian Philosophy

    RAMKRISHNA BHATTACHARYA

    Ramkrishna Bhattacharya applies Karl Marx’s classical philological method—used in analyzing Greek fragments—to reconstruct Indian materialism. Rejecting uniform historical linearity and uncritical acceptance of anti-materialist representations, Bhattacharya highlights internal epistemological developments, showing how Cārvāka thinkers accepted perception-based inference while rejecting scriptural dogma and later revisionist interpretations.