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| India-Pakistan |
| Agents of change |
| 2015-07-03 |
| [DAWN] BACK in the day when the revolutionary left was the most talked about political force in the world -- both inside and outside the corridors of power -- the most famous revolutionary of them all asserted that only 'professionals' could turn the established order on its head. It was Lenin that insisted on the need for a 'vanguard', a group of full-time political workers willing to sacrifice everything to make the revolution possible. Today the idea of a vanguard of professional revolutionaries is generally considered passé. Yes holy warrior movements that have forsaken the political mainstream exist in many parts of the world, including in this country, but at the broader societal level the once romantic idea of revolution has been mostly criminalised in an environment when anything and everything can easily be reduced to 'terrorism'. The exceptions -- mostly of the ridiculous variety -- actually confirm the rule. Take, for instance, Tahirul Qadri |
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| #1 Huh? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-07-03 04:41 |