'IT plays a double-edged role in society'

  • | Monday | 18th June, 2018

"Expatiating on the topic 'The History of Black Marxism in the USA', Jensen spoke in defence of Mahatma Gandhi and said the slavery system had accelerated the economic power of Europe. PATNA: JNU professor emeritus Anjan Mukherji said on Sunday information technology has always played double-edged role in modern society, as it led to greater expectations for higher wages among the working class, but also resulted in the suppression of demands for higher wages.Delivering the Joan Robinson Memorial lecture on the second day of the international conference on Karl Marx organized by Asian Development Research Institute (ADRI), Mukherji said the expansion of mass media and consequent flow of information led to greater expectations for higher wages among the working class from the beginning of the last century.Mukherji, who is also ADRI chairman, said the concept of subsistence wages was given in the Marxian theory, but amid the information boom, the powers that be also invoked repressive measures to suppress their demand.Delivering the D D Kosambi Memorial Lecture, Kipton Jensen, associate professor of Morehouse College , Atlanta (US), quoted Martin Luther King regarding his visit to India: "To other countries I go as a tourist, to India I go as a pilgrim. He traced the 150-year journey of Marxism in the USA.Its phases included the Reconstruction Period in 1868, aftermath of the Civil War (1861-62), rise of the Socialist Party in 1918, the poor people's campaign in 1968 following the assassination of Martin Luther King and the use of Marxism by different scholars to explain the meaning of the present geopolitical moment in 2018.Jensen drew an analogy between the Blacks in the US and untouchables in India, pointing out at the same time that Blacks still hadn't got much in terms of their legitimate rights.On the topic related to Communists in India, Ish Mishra, associate professor of Hindu College (Delhi University), said the failure of the Indian communists to fulfil the unaccomplished task of bourgeois democratic revolution led to the growth of identity politics in the country woven around caste and religion.He said the practice of identity politics has proved to be a big speed breaker to the growth of class consciousness among workers, peasants, Dalits, Adivasis and others on their road to emancipation.Other key speakers included Craig Brandist from University of Sheffield , Riccardo Bellofiore from University of Bergamo (Italy), Barbara Harriss White from Oxford University and Chirashree Das from JNU.

PATNA: JNU professor emeritus Anjan Mukherji said on Sunday information technology has always played double-edged role in modern society, as it led to greater expectations for higher wages among the working class, but also resulted in the suppression of demands for higher wages.Delivering the Joan Robinson Memorial lecture on the second day of the international conference on Karl Marx organized by Asian Development Research Institute (ADRI), Mukherji said the expansion of mass media and consequent flow of information led to greater expectations for higher wages among the working class from the beginning of the last century.Mukherji, who is also ADRI chairman, said the concept of subsistence wages was given in the Marxian theory, but amid the information boom, the powers that be also invoked repressive measures to suppress their demand.Delivering the D D Kosambi Memorial Lecture, Kipton Jensen, associate professor of Morehouse College , Atlanta (US), quoted Martin Luther King regarding his visit to India: "To other countries I go as a tourist, to India I go as a pilgrim."Expatiating on the topic 'The History of Black Marxism in the USA', Jensen spoke in defence of Mahatma Gandhi and said the slavery system had accelerated the economic power of Europe. He traced the 150-year journey of Marxism in the USA.Its phases included the Reconstruction Period in 1868, aftermath of the Civil War (1861-62), rise of the Socialist Party in 1918, the poor people's campaign in 1968 following the assassination of Martin Luther King and the use of Marxism by different scholars to explain the meaning of the present geopolitical moment in 2018.Jensen drew an analogy between the Blacks in the US and untouchables in India, pointing out at the same time that Blacks still hadn't got much in terms of their legitimate rights.On the topic related to Communists in India, Ish Mishra, associate professor of Hindu College (Delhi University), said the failure of the Indian communists to fulfil the unaccomplished task of bourgeois democratic revolution led to the growth of identity politics in the country woven around caste and religion.He said the practice of identity politics has proved to be a big speed breaker to the growth of class consciousness among workers, peasants, Dalits, Adivasis and others on their road to emancipation.Other key speakers included Craig Brandist from University of Sheffield , Riccardo Bellofiore from University of Bergamo (Italy), Barbara Harriss White from Oxford University and Chirashree Das from JNU.

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