Tathagat @TathagatEcon Twitter profile

Pinned Tweet

Tathagat

4 months

🧵📚🗓️ 1. The Search Warrant- Patrick Modiano Harrowing piece of inventive fiction. Fictionalizes partially true accounts of displacement and violence in Europe during the holocaust. Immediately personal, yet movingly universal.

2

1

14

Last Seen Profiles

@rohitkokane_

@Sheng_Peng

@isagen7

@Djoe_V2

@WarriorsSupport

@RobOruc

@YorukEnver

@fcsdathletics

@Bucktonbirder

@txtry

@toritilla5

@outofunion

@DiarioTiempo

@KahealBeats

@WagnerAthletics

@toxiccalm

@yellowhammergrl

@MalloryJansen

@Real_Musashi

@jandakembangstw

@TheSavageUFC

@warr_oo

@CarlyFiorina

@TraderJPark

@Meanless_eth

@biomejs

@rosanagazola

@EvanMarkham4

@BorowskiJoyce

@OscarEGB

@ARIA193685524

@cellness

@michaeldedrick

@lauu_Thearcher

@frstwgirl

@TowerOfLondon

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

10 months

RDJ can write Capital but can Marx write "If money is evil then that building is hell. This is the most obnoxious group of money-hungry low IQ high energy jack rabbit fucking wannabe big time small time shit talking bothersome irritating bunch of motherf*ckers I've ever had to

Film Facts 🎬

@Factsonfilm

10 months

Robert Downey Jr visiting Wall Street for a documentary in the early 90s

781

24K

173K

21

1K

12K

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

2 years

@joeywreck

34

568

10K

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

2 years

Self-explanatory

Nia 🪩✨✈️💫

@_johnsonator

2 years

My main issue with Marxian economics is that it misidentifies production and consumption alone as the main source of inequality when it’s actually rent seeking.

155

19

290

31

427

7K

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

2 years

"Marxists" justifying gender essentialism through materialism neither understand Marxism nor materialism

71

499

5K

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

2 years

A list of Karl Marx's confession of his "favourites":

87

404

5K

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

5 months

"We're hindus" and it's straight-up a collection of superstitious practices, lies, and fascist victim-complex one after the next

Hindu On Campus

@hinduoncampus

5 months

We’re Hindu! Of course, we are really proud 🕉️🛕🇮🇳

2K

6K

20K

288

371

3K

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

1 year

Sarah Bellum

@tamsully12

1 year

WITHOUT GOOGLING Name a famous historic battle.

25K

3K

25K

20

158

3K

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

2 years

Every time a liberal equates Hitler with Stalin, the Nazis win a little.

33

176

2K

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

3 months

Just came across Salman Khan wearing this Lenin shirt...

40

147

2K

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

2 years

Common Stalin W

29

99

1K

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

2 years

Sri Lanka was the first South Asian nation to earnestly embrace neoliberalism but sure go off about 'irresponsible socialism'.

Abhijit Majumder

@abhijitmajumder

2 years

Irresponsible socialism, endless freebies, and Chinese loans lead to bankruptcy. Bankruptcy leads to this👇🏼 #SriLankaProtests

304

2K

5K

13

133

1K

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

2 years

Happy birthday, Dalai Lama

13

171

1K

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

1 year

YASH ahale

@KitKatYash

1 year

Adani Group has been attacked by foreign entities in the past and has shut their allegations rightfully. The same will happen now also. The people just need to keep their faith in Gautam Adani intact. He will rise again. #EconomyWillNeverDie

18

14

26

8

116

1K

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

1 year

Living wage mangoge to cheer denge

Gunjan Paneri

@gunjan_paneri

1 year

Marketing level 🤣🔥

23

55

1K

2

152

1K

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

1 year

India: The Modi Question (2023) 1/4

19

274

1K

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

10 months

endure for more than five minutes."

1

4

1K

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

11 months

This is so off. You cannot say the answer is capitalism when all the four supposed images of prosperity were also under capitalism. These were real material benefits that the largely white population enjoyed under a specific social structure of accumulation within capitalism.

Read Let This Radicalize You

@JoshuaPHilll

11 months

Capitalism. The answer is capitalism but these weird statues accounts want you to think “wokeness” somehow made life more expensive.

762

8K

75K

28

60

913

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

2 years

@orikron Anyway...

6

106

841

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

5 months

It is not supposed to happen

Suby #ReleaseSanjivBhatt

@Subytweets

5 months

New India!

489

1K

5K

21

82

894

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

2 years

1/4 "But how is it possible', asked a friend, 'to defend a man like Stalin?' There was astonishment and indignation in this question, which reminded me of what an old Communist worker once told me. He spoke to me of the year 1956, when Khrushchev read his famous Secret Report.

10

106

790

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

5 months

People posting the Constitution picture need to realise that it is something inherent in that very constitutional structure that has allowed, abetted and encouraged what is happening today.

15

73

571

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

3 months

Althusser was so real for this: "Basically, Lenin did not need to read Hegel in order to understand him, because he had already understood Hegel, having closely read and understood Marx."

9

29

513

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

2 years

"In 1998 when Hugo Chavez was elected, only 35% people in Venezuela were satisfied with the democratic system. The 2008 Latinobarometro poll shows satisfaction with democracy has risen to 82%. It is somewhat paradoxical that in a country accused of being a dictatorship, such a

4

60

453

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

2 years

@jewish_activist

1

7

416

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

2 years

4/4 And for this reason, she had another view of Stalin. A new generation of Communists will share her view." - Ludo Martens, Another View of Stalin

1

15

398

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

2 years

3/4 'How can we not support Stalin, who built socialism, who defeated fascism, who incarnated all our hopes?' In the fiery ideological storm that was sweeping the world, where others had capitulated, this woman remained true to the Revolution.

3

22

352

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

2 years

"All we can do is to laugh as we gaze at this spectacle, for one cannot help laughing when one sees a man fighting his own imagination, smashing his own inventions, while at the same time heatedly asserting that he is smashing his opponent." - Stalin

4

42

313

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

2 years

"Towards the end of the twentieth century a sickness struck the world. Not everyone died, but all suffered from it. The virus which caused the epidemic was called the "liberal virus"." Banger opening line

2

47

329

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

1 year

This is what real Third-Worldist praxis looks like

South Asia Index

@SouthAsiaIndex

1 year

New Delhi:— Illegal call centers in India scammed American citizens of $10B in last 11 months of 2022. - FBI

175

992

5K

4

31

302

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

2 years

congratulations, India just scored the Worst rank (146) out of 146 countries in the category of 'health and survival' of the Gender gap index

2

27

300

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

2 years

THREAD: What is happening in Manesar: 1/10 After a "Hindu Panchayat" was recently organised in Manesar calling for an economic boycott of Muslims, more than 50 Muslim families have had to leave their homes. Long been a centre of labour struggles,the "industrial hub" of Manesar is

3

119

304

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

2 years

Today, 50 years ago

2

52

299

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

2 years

2/4 Powerful debates took place within the Communist Party. During one of these confrontations, an elderly Communist woman, from a Jewish Communist family, who lost two children during the war and whose family in Poland was exterminated, cried out:

1

8

289

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

1 year

Apart from Dibakar Banerjee's usual twin suspects, Sai Paranjpye's Chashme Buddoor (1981) deserves to be here. A thread of 15 Delhi locations, prominently featured in the film. 1. Siddharth, Omi and Jomo's Defence Colony flat/barsaati

remorseji

@dillikidalal

1 year

So wake up sid is a love letter to Mumbai, which movie would be love letter to Delhi? Or Bangalore? Or Pune? Or your city Or place? I always wonder.

81

8

151

11

73

309

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

2 years

Aditya Pittie 🇮🇳

@PittieAditya

2 years

@abhijitmajumder "The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatcher

22

79

574

1

16

256

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

3 months

Mask off! The cowardly Hindu Nazis who attacked students in JNU last night have been identified. Share as widely as possible! Kanhaiya Kumar- Centre for Japanese Studies Praful- Centre for Korean Studies Vikram- Centre for Korean Studies

8

104

289

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

2 years

3

19

267

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

1 year

Mandatory post

6

17

264

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

2 years

4

31

229

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

1 year

India: The Modi Question(2023) Ep 02 "One guy I met- torture was being done on him and at the same time, a public address system was kept near him, so that the entire village could hear him cry."- Habeel Iqbal (1/3)

12

75

260

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

2 years

The number of gig-workers in India is expected to go up by 300% in the next seven years. With ever-weakening labour laws, stretched work-hours and intensified exploitation, we are truly looking at a bleak future.

5

38

237

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

10 months

@butleriano Quota-oriented planned production network is Man's true nature

0

4

244

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

1 year

Reddit-ass quote

1

3

204

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

2 years

House of the Dragon mistaking Capital as a trans-historic, para-geographical entity:

7

18

196

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

10 months

I...was not prepared for this

Pain and Able

@QMLMo

10 months

Yeah, Im feeling it.... #EFF10thAnnivesary

748

6K

23K

7

1

189

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

2 years

@joeywreck

3

10

174

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

2 years

"To be a Marxist is to continue the work that Marx merely began, even though that beginning was of unequalled power. It is not to stop at Marx, but to start from him...Marx is boundless, because the radical critique that he initiates is itself boundless, always incomplete,

2

31

191

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

2 years

Same energy

1

31

179

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

2 years

This Hindu-Nazi excuse of a teacher runs a residential school in Dewas. He has made it mandatory for every student to follow the "Sanatan Dharma" and to begin and end each class with chants of "Jai Shri Ram". He boasts of the school not allowing a single off-day- i.e. 365 days +

Alishan Jafri

@alishan_jafri

2 years

Isn't this so called physics teacher teaching bigotry to young HINDU students?

1K

2K

6K

3

36

166

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

2 years

Today, 93 years ago, Indian socialist revolutionary Jatindra Nath Das was killed by his British captors, who forcibly fed him milk till his lungs burst on the 63rd day of his Hunger Strike for demanding better conditions in prison. He was 24 years old. 1/4

1

52

165

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

7 months

Congratulations Australia for winning the ICC Men's Cricket World Cup 2023

4

21

174

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

1 year

"In Russia I felt for the first time like a full human being. No color prejudice like in Mississippi, no color prejudice like in Washington. It was the first time I felt like a human being." - Paul Robeson

3

14

164

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

2 years

Jacobin

@jacobin

2 years

Congress has forced a contract on railworkers. We spoke with a train engineer about what’s missing, union leadership’s failures, and why he thinks progressives in Congress like AOC and Jamaal Bowman “need to be commended” for their role, not denounced.

82

89

362

1

10

147

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

2 years

The "Eight-step Programme" of Bhagat Singh's Socialist Revolution: 1) Abolition of landlordism 2) Liquidation of the peasants' indebtedness 3) Nationalisation of Land by the Revolutionary State with a view finally to lead to improved and collective farming

1

33

146

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

2 years

@______muan he's just soft on the gullibles. adorable

0

151

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

1 year

4/4

0

17

142

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

2 years

large percentage of the population expresses its satisfaction with democracy". - Marta Harnecker, A World to Build

1

5

134

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

11 months

Pertaining purely to semantics, the other argument could be "yeah and capitalism "went wrong" " But again, factually incorrect, it had gone the exact way it was supposed to- in conventional historicist paradigm.

4

138

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

1 year

"talking stage" is inherently teleological, stagist and hence counterrevolutionary

3

27

138

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

7 months

Students at South Asian University, Delhi, expressed their solidarity with Palestinian martyrs and voiced their demands for an immediate ceasefire.

1

28

142

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

1 year

@alanbrownsugarr

1

34

141

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

2 years

@FedRoblox

1

3

125

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

2 years

Communism is so evil that US had to pay Taiwan 4000 million USD from 1950-74 against China, to convince people of the fact

3

14

122

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

2 years

"Class-consciousness is crucial to stop people from fighting each other. The poor workers and peasants should be made to clearly understand that their real enemies are the capitalists, so they must be careful not to fall into their trap". Bhagat Singh, June, 1927

1

23

133

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

2 years

Fascinating how liberals accusing Stalin of Molotov-Ribbentrop never mention Britain and France literally handing over Czechoslovakia to Hitler less than a year before, at Munich.

3

19

119

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

2 years

@FedRoblox

0

4

107

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

1 year

India: The Modi Question "(Delhi Police) made us sing the National Anthem while we were lying down. They thought Muslims wouldn't know the national anthem. But we live here and we know it well. Despite singing the National Anthem, they still did not stop." (1/4)

4

38

121

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

2 years

@zoo_bear and @free_thinker being in the race for the Nobel burned OpIndia so bad, they had to take this anti-Imperialist line:

6

22

111

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

2 years

Uttar Pradesh was declared by the Center as the state with highest number of deaths in Police Custody. The number being 952 for the last two years. Total number of deaths in Police Custody peaked at 4484 for the same period.

1

21

110

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

1 year

Tag yourself I am "Rob or Kill the Successful"

Beardpick

@Beardpick

1 year

@1WhiteRabbitt

22

3

6

11

2

97

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

3 months

Revolutionary greetings to comrade Salman.

4

8

116

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

1 year

2/4

1

8

108

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

1 year

India: The Modi Question (2023) "He had given us three days. Do what you like. After three days, I'll stop it all."

2

32

113

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

4 months

Regarding-Bastar: The Naxal Story's teaser. It's futile to theorize it as a concerted effort of the Apparatus making the Indian Left a bigger enemy than Pakistan. Multiple factors at play, of course. But, Hindi cinema has never seen this level of genocidal anti-communism, though.

4

18

109

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

7 months

Abhi and Niyu

@abhiandniyu

7 months

Requesting everyone not to share the image of that protestor who came to steal the limelight wearing free palestine T shirt. He wanted eyeballs. Stop giving it by sharing the image.

10K

3K

20K

0

10

114

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

1 year

3/4

1

15

104

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

1 year

India: The Modi Question(2023) Ep. 02 "The police are meant to protect all of India's people. But here, the police are seen with Hindus throwing stones towards Muslims." 1/4

5

33

108

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

2 months

But whatever has been used to describe Baniawaad is just actually existing capitalism. One needs to forego this image of a theoretical "pure" capitalism that was in itself an abstraction and a historically specific contingency. Capital can never be an ally in the anti-caste

Buffalo Intellectual

@ProfRavikantK

2 months

Being pro-capital & being pro-Baniawaad are two DIFFERENT things Banias are not, have never been capitalist-- they make wealth through regulatory capture via close links with state power. Bania vision for India from GD Birla to Gandhi to Anant Ambani is same - a vast casteist…

34

117

497

2

19

108

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

1 year

India: The Modi Question(2023)-Ep 02 "There were a lot of people watching it, a lot of people. An officer told us we were taking him to the hospital but on the way to the hospital, he died. I was helpless. They are killing people because they are Muslim." - Mariam Ansari (1/6)

3

35

102

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

1 year

All these words instead of saying "I am a Nazi"

2

3

87

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

2 years

I am praising communism

Josh

@BernedinSanDieg

2 years

@Rothmus NOBODY IS PRAISING COMMUNISM. I'm a raging lefty and have never heard in any subreddit (for example) anyone desiring literal communism. It's just a boogeyman term.

217

4

143

1

0

89

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

2 years

"The word 'anarchist' was given a bad name...slandered in the same way that selfish capitalists slandered words like 'Bolshevik', 'Socialist', etc. Yet anarchists are the most sensitive well-wishers of the entire world, even if we disagree with their views." - Bhagat Singh, 1928

3

9

100

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

3 months

ABVP goon Kanhaiya Kumar displaying Sangh's training last night at JNU- cowardly attacking students.

3

16

101

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

4 months

Revolutionary congratulations to comrades Umesh and @m_bhimraj for winning against their arbitrary and authoritarian expulsion from South Asian University, for standing up and fighting for students, for hoping against hope! ✊

0

18

102

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

11 months

0

7

99

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

2 years

"The only democracy in the middle east".

Muhammad Smiry 🇵🇸

@MuhammadSmiry

2 years

Caught on camera An lsraeli police executes a Palestinian at point-blank range!

1K

18K

21K

4

14

94

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

1 year

0

7

94

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

2 years

Criticisms against Great Man Theory have been put on hold today for celebrating Gorby's d*ath.

1

7

89

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

1 year

Happy New Year Mitron

1

7

95

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

2 years

@strike_dr

1

8

87

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

1 year

"Not Men. Fascists."

0

10

86

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

1 year

Big day for Hitler particles enjoyers

5

85

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

7 months

Dusty 🔴

@Leftwatch2

7 months

One of the more foucaultian chapters too (Discipline and Punish mainly)

2

0

10

1

4

92

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

2 years

Ah,well- good for him!

1

4

78

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

1 year

India: The Modi Question(2023) Ep 02 "Nur and Zahara took their children with them. They would all spend the next 18 months in a detention center." (1/4)

2

21

88

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

9 months

I'm now all the more excited about DDR

0

11

85

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

2 years

Daily Reminder: Indian famines were manufactured by the British 👇

3

14

74

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

1 year

@NotPotBol The only accurate polcomp depiction.

0

78

Tathagat

@TathagatEcon

2 years

Bhagat Singh on mysticism and socialism: "Belief in God is the outcome of mysticism which is the natural consequence of depression. That this world is 'Maya' or Mithya', a dream or a fiction, is clear mysticism which has been originated and developed by Hindu sages of old ages,

2

8

81