by Kimani Waweru | Jul 25, 2020 | issue 2, main issues
We welcome you to the second issue of The Kenya Socialist (TKS). When launching the first issue in September 2019, we had planned for TKS to be published on a quarterly basis. However, changing situations and our limited resources have made it difficult to meet this...
by Kimani Waweru | Jul 24, 2020 | issue 2
Frederick Engels wrote his pamphlet ‘Socialism: Utopian and Scientific’, in 1880. It is a masterpiece, which every revolutionary should read and study. Although it was written over a century ago, its ideas are still relevant today. The pamphlet is in three parts i.e....
by Kimani Waweru | Jul 24, 2020 | issue 2
Historical Analysis of Gender The term gender, according to the World Health Organisation1, refers to the socially constructed characteristics of women and men – such as norms, roles and relationships of, and between, groups of women and men. In Kenya, as with other...
by Kimani Waweru | Sep 24, 2019 | issue 1
The word ‘ideology’, originated in France and according to John Plamenatz, It meant the science or study of ideas, and was first used to refer to a type of philosophy fashionable at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.1 As the word started to be used...
by Kimani Waweru | Sep 24, 2019 | issue 1
Class can be said to be the differences of people position in the system of social production. A group of people within a society who are in a particular position belongs to the same class e.g. producers in a capitalist country are the working class while those who...
