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On Human Nature and Socialism

ByNews Desk August 10, 2020August 18, 2020

Fatima Shahzad How many times have you heard, “Socialism is inconsistent with our nature because human beings are inherently selfish” or that “Hierarchies exist in nature, thus an egalitarian society cannot exist”? Unfortunately, this is a notion all too common in our educational institutions and political discourse, and thus deserves some attention for those who…

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Commemorating Hobsbawm

ByNews Desk June 14, 2020

Fatima Shahzad On June 9, 1917, the year of the Russian Revolution, Eric J. Hobsbawm was born and he went on to contribute more to the study of the 20th century than perhaps any other historian. The main feature of his writings that set him apart from other historians was the fact that he did not…

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Black Lives Matter and Resistance

ByNews Desk June 7, 2020

Many people know Martin Luther King as having led the march against racism, but hardly any are aware that he was organizing a march against poverty, for socialist policies to redistribute wealth, writes Fatima Shahzad