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El historiador marxista E. P. Thompson murió este día en 1993. Honrar su memoria requiere volver sobre algunas de sus mayores contribuciones políticas y teóricas

Por:  Redacción Virales Raphael Samuel publicó un video en el 2019 en el que dijo que iba a demandar a sus papás porque lo hicieron nacer sin su consentimiento. La insólita situación le dio la vuelta al mundo en aquel momento y en las últimas horas se volvió a viralizar en diferentes redes sociales. En su cuenta de YouTube, el indio publicó un video hace 2 años, el cual tituló: “¿Por qué voy a demandar a mis padres...

Demanda a sus padres por ser concebido sin su consentimiento Joven indio y considerado antinatalista demanda a sus padres por concebirlo sin su consentimiento y considera que los humanos deberían de dejar de reproducirse. Raphael Samuel, un joven de origen indio de 27 años de edad ha decidido demandar a sus concebido sin su consentimiento. Samuel, considera que haberlo concebido es una actitud hipócrita, lo trajeron al mundo sin pensar en las dificultades de la vida. Asegura que pensa...

En India, joven demanda a sus padres porque no quería nacer El joven de India, identificado como Raphael, anunció desde años atrás que demandó a sus padres porque nació ‘sin su consentimiento’. Un joven de la realizó una demanda contra sus padres porque aseguró que no quería nacer, por lo que ahora pide que le paguen dinero por vivir. Su caso se ha viralizado en redes sociales y ha dividido opiniones entre los usuarios. El sujeto originario de la India, identificado como Rapha...

One of the pathologies of British politics today is that the Labour Party has a theory of communications, but not a theory of power. If Labour talks about power at all, it is to conflate it with being in office. Keir Starmer’s abstentionism and his pneumatic waffle about such concepts as patriotism, are grounded in a theory that what drives voters is “values”. Informed by the

The End of ‘Whig’ History and the Twilight of Nations Commentary  From the 17th to the 20th century, “Whigs” shaped an Anglo-American culture based on the universal principles of the European Enlightenment—individual liberty, free speech, property rights, rule of law, free enterprise, and democratic governance. “Whig” histories were affirmative accounts of national origins that celebrated a progression from troubled or divided beginnings to more just and democratic stages of shar...

This work offers an account of the heroes and villains, legends and foibles of the four nations that inhabit the British Isles. Raphael Samuel is interested by the face that traditions can disappear no less abruptly than they were invented. How is it, he asks, that the Scots have lost interest in a British narrative of which they were once a central protagonist? Why is the celebration of "Britons" thriving today just as its object has become problematic? The book conveys the mutability of natio...

Gabriel Pearson was instrumental in the creation of what became the New Left Review CasparPearson Tue 6 Apr 2021 13.29 EDT Last modified on Tue 6 Apr 2021 13.31 EDT My father, Gabriel Pearson, who has died aged 88, was a scholar, critic and teacher of literature. He spent most of his career at the University of Essex, joining its newly established department of literature in 1965. Even after his formal retirement in 1995, he kept up various part-time roles at Essex, eventually stopping work in ...

"La Piéta des Roms," by Johann Walter Bantz/Unsplash In 2019 a businessman in India named Raphael Samuel filed suit against his own parents. The plaintiff’s complaint? His parents brought him into this world without his consent. The sheer immensity of life’s suffering, Mr. Samuel argued, makes any parental decision to bring children into this world nothing short of a cruel imposition, equivalent to kidnapping or slavery. While Mr. Samuel did not expect his case to go very far (both his par...

Kiwiana stamps issued in 1994 by NZPO. OPINION: Whats with those jandals, hokey pokey ice-creams, buzzy bees, Swanndris and gumboots? Far from being random and unrelated objects, these icons of so-called Kiwiana tell a story of late 20th-century nostalgia at a moment of rapid social transformation. Definitions of Kiwiana vary and the term is widely applied to objects, expressions and pastimes that evoke a sense of national identity. But, as sociologist Claudia Bell has argued, its an identity...