I am now doing my fourth year of honors/undergraduate at University of Dhaka,Bangladesh at Economics...I am extrimly interested to do my postgraduate and PhD from SOAS in either at Development econ or in Anthropology. So I am now preparing for my IELTS Exam. I have done some extra-curricular works like,I have translated and published a book..I am workinf with the marginal hizra/transgender community and street childrens and doing case studies about them.And some other extra-cur works. And,My CGPA is expected to be 3.25-30(out of 4) after the graduation. Am I eligible for soas Anthropology or Dev.Econ? And,will I get fundings/scholarship?(as it is very hard to manage the full amount myself.And I want to focus on study rather than doing extra-jobs for paying the educational expenses)
As important as historic analysis may be I think it is misguided. The times - unlike today or the near future - were not ripe for any form of communism. The machine was not yet fully developed and profits were still to be had in accord with a rise in living standards for everyone.
Funny enough, I think the present is more apt for communism than any other period in history: economies are run on abundance and not scarcity, the Western nations are fully developed - in the capitalistic sense of the word - and automation poses several problems that could lead, not least, to an excess of surplus reserve labor, who could act as the agents of this radical societal transformation. If I had to predict, I think by the time I'm 50 (in about 30 years), i think the planet will look fundamentally different and the social formation by 2050 will be of kind never seen before in human history. One can only hope for a more just and peaceful transition to such a world, but history doesn't exactly provide reassuring examples lol.
All analysis regarding collapse of capitalism and eventual rise of communism gets frustrated and stunted due to capitalist countries ability to bring reforms by way of social security benefits, affordable and free healthcare, old age benefits, social welfare, unemployment benefits and various regulatory measures. Thus avoiding revolutionary upheavals during which economy is reset to work again until a new cycle hits economic downturns and governments take measures to get out of the rout. For now communism has been put in the cold storage in Russia and China the birthplace of practicing socialism. Both the country adopted capitalist mode of production with little or no political freedom. Socialism had appeal in some parts of third world countries and as soon as development takes place in these third world pockets, the appeal of communism recedes or will recede. Marx ad other theorist perhaps did not foresee the resiliency of capitalism. Economic and social democracy may be the way forward. That’s my insignificant knowledge on the subject matter.
I am now doing my fourth year of honors/undergraduate at University of Dhaka,Bangladesh at Economics...I am extrimly interested to do my postgraduate and PhD from SOAS in either at Development econ or in Anthropology.
So I am now preparing for my IELTS Exam.
I have done some extra-curricular works like,I have translated and published a book..I am workinf with the marginal hizra/transgender community and street childrens and doing case studies about them.And some other extra-cur works.
And,My CGPA is expected to be 3.25-30(out of 4) after the graduation.
Am I eligible for soas Anthropology or Dev.Econ?
And,will I get fundings/scholarship?(as it is very hard to manage the full amount myself.And I want to focus on study rather than doing extra-jobs for paying the educational expenses)
As important as historic analysis may be I think it is misguided. The times - unlike today or the near future - were not ripe for any form of communism. The machine was not yet fully developed and profits were still to be had in accord with a rise in living standards for everyone.
Funny enough, I think the present is more apt for communism than any other period in history: economies are run on abundance and not scarcity, the Western nations are fully developed - in the capitalistic sense of the word - and automation poses several problems that could lead, not least, to an excess of surplus reserve labor, who could act as the agents of this radical societal transformation. If I had to predict, I think by the time I'm 50 (in about 30 years), i think the planet will look fundamentally different and the social formation by 2050 will be of kind never seen before in human history. One can only hope for a more just and peaceful transition to such a world, but history doesn't exactly provide reassuring examples lol.
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this guy from Hungry looks like Ken Livingston! the former London mayor? is this a coincidence.
All analysis regarding collapse of capitalism and eventual rise of communism gets frustrated and stunted due to capitalist countries ability to bring reforms by way of social security benefits, affordable and free healthcare, old age benefits, social welfare, unemployment benefits and various regulatory measures. Thus avoiding revolutionary upheavals during which economy is reset to work again until a new cycle hits economic downturns and governments take measures to get out of the rout. For now communism has been put in the cold storage in Russia and China the birthplace of practicing socialism. Both the country adopted capitalist mode of production with little or no political freedom. Socialism had appeal in some parts of third world countries and as soon as development takes place in these third world pockets, the appeal of communism recedes or will recede. Marx ad other theorist perhaps did not foresee the resiliency of capitalism. Economic and social democracy may be the way forward. That’s my insignificant knowledge on the subject matter.