You tube video with full recording of Rajya Sabha TV’s India’s world programme episode on Pakistan elections scheduled on May 11, 2013.
You tube video with full recording of Rajya Sabha TV’s India’s world programme episode on Pakistan elections scheduled on May 11, 2013.
The victory of fascism in Europe between the wars was an incalculable human catastrophe. This collection of essays contains the first-ever English translation of Arthur Rosenberg’s fascinating analysis of the emergence of fascism in Europe, as well as a short introduction to the essay that explains its significance, and then four contributions that extend the framework to India – dealing in turn with Savarkar and the politics of the Hindu Mahasabha (Srinivasan), communalism as the Indian version of fascism and its roots in the majoritarian ideologies of the nation-state (Simeon), and the fascism of the Sangh Parivar as this had emerged by the early ’90s when concerted communal mobilisations unleashed a spate of violence, foreshadowing the even more horrific events of 2002 (Sumit Sarkar). Unlike most left-wing theories of fascism, Rosenberg’s work made the mass base of fascism central to its political success.
If Sri Lanka has anything to teach its neighbors, it is that a long tradition of democracy and a politically intelligent and literate electorate are not proof against the promulgation of bad constitutions, which promote practices of government that, because of their very constitutionality, are resistant to democratic change.
While most political forms and traditions of the European left cross-pollinated freely across national boundaries, the Italian operaismo of the 1960s was largely a sui generis experience in its time. Credited with a significant intellectual impact at home—transforming Italian sociology, through its project of worker inquiries, and yielding a heady if evanescent crop of theoretical journals: Quaderni rossi, Classe operaia, Angelus Novus, Contropiano—it had less immediate reverberation abroad than the larger current around Il Manifesto, whose cultural breadth and political consistency was of a different order. A condition for operaismo’s existence was the dramatic industrial expansion of the 1950s, within a culture already deeply coloured by two mass workers’ parties, each with its own lively intellectual life.
The task of communalism is to bring about the disaster and break them apart. Communalism sinks each community into hate and makes them forget about the real demands and needs of their lives. Communal politics is therefore deeply of-this-world in its selfish interests.
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