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| Is Malala a Marxist and Does It Matter? |
| 2014-11-01 |
| Moved to Opinion As Malala becomes more famous, at some point we're going to have to discuss this. Yes that's Lenin and that's Trotsky on that poster. Since Malala became famous she has been kept mostly apolitical entering the realm of Mother Theresa or Gandhi as a transnational humanitarian figure. The reality is certainly a lot more complicated than that. ...In the Muslim world, the non-Islamic opposition is largely limited to the far, and the hard left at that, so Malala's origins are not surprising. Her origins as an activist are not apolitical. She did not come out of nowhere. The strange paradox is that while in the West, the left panders to Islam while the right opposes it, in the East, the remaining opposition is from the left. There are exceptions such as Turkey, but even there the "secular right" has been largely suppressed by Erdogan. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #3 It is sad that she wants to activate for the opposite of what she should. What a shame. Someone send her Anne Frank. |
| Posted by: newc 2014-11-01 22:43 |
| #2 I thought this article was about one of Obama's daughters... |
| Posted by: Raj 2014-11-01 13:44 |
| #1 Lots of youngsters are. Let's see what she believes in a decade or two. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2014-11-01 11:58 |