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Tariq Ali


Pakistani
October 21, 1943
Historian
Exploiters and manipulators have always used religion self-righteously to further their own selfish ends.
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In some ways, the '60s were a reaction to the '50s and the intensity of the Cold War.


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Socially, the Cuban revolution created an education system and health service that remain the envy of much of the neo-liberal world.
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As a political current, Maoism was always weak in Britain, confined largely to students from Asia, Africa and Latin America.
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The Lumiere brothers first exhibited moving pictures in Paris in 1896. A year later, there was a private showing at the Yildiz palace in Istanbul.
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In the calculus of western interests, there is no suffering, whatever its scale, which cannot be justified. Chechens, Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis are of little importance.
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An independent Scotland could be far more internationalist and would benefit a great deal from links to both Scandinavia and states in other continents.
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Scandinavia was awash with Maoism in the '70s. Sweden had Maoist groups with a combined membership and periphery of several thousand members, but it was Norway where Maoism became a genuine popular force and hegemonic in the culture.
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Poland, after the First World War, was beset by chaos, disorder, and a foolish incursion by the Red Army, which helped to produce the ultra-nationalist military dictatorship of General Pilsudski.
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