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Worldwide the old concept of human being is at variance with the new one that ‘all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights’. The collision is visibly so acute in South Asia—India, Pakistan and Bangladesh—because here the theocratic contours crisscross the political, while holding the economy to ransom. This book is about how to bring about stability and development in the region with all due respect to religious, philosophical and moral ...
Communism was the first of the mass movements in twentieth-century Europe, and the first to flourish in the Muslim countries. Its appeal was widespread. In Indonesia, the largest of the Muslim countries, communism had once swelled into an enormous movement; it did so for a while in Afghanistan and in South Yemen. During the first half of the last century, communism found deep roots in Iraq as well, and became part of a Pan-Arabist movement led by the Arab Baath ...
'All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights' -this is a modern concept of man. Democracy claims its legitimacy upholding this view. Historically, the bourgeoisie had struggled against feudalism for democracy. But capitalism uses man as a mere source of labour-power. That makes democracy incoherent. Some of the raging battles of the twenty-first century are being fought with one side under the banner of dignity, ...