Our priorities are all wrong if we only care about how long people are in prison for, and not what goes on inside them, and what happens after people are released. Ash Sarkar Read Quote
The launch of the National Health Service in 1948, one of the world’s foremost examples of something being decommodified in the interest of the social good, was met with nothing less than horror by those with vested interests in the private provision of medicine. Ash Sarkar Read Quote
But communism is the only thing which says all things should be brought into the hands of commons to benefit all people. In the past, you’d call that communism. I think in the future, we’ll have to call that common sense. Ash Sarkar Read Quote
Bengal in the early 1930s was a hotbed of anti-British revolutionary activity – and women were at the heart of this insurrectionist moment. Ash Sarkar Read Quote
The demand for adequate social housing provision is something that transcends race, religion and settled status. Ash Sarkar Read Quote
As a long-termist, I acknowledge there are more pressing causes than the abolition of private property. Ash Sarkar Read Quote
While I agree that embracing vibrancy and joy is an essential bulwark against the left’s tendency towards energy-sapping endless meetings, pop culture alone won’t save us from racism. Ash Sarkar Read Quote
I can’t help but feel that trying to locate a universal femininity in either consumer culture or particular bodily functions serves as a way to opt out of dealing with the multiple processes that impede our full participation in society. Ash Sarkar Read Quote
The idea of the NHS took root in the political imagination less as an example of social entitlement’s victory over private provision, and more as the embodiment of brand Britain. Ash Sarkar Read Quote
