From: khaleq@brahms.udel.edu (Mohame Khalequzzaman)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.bangladesh
Subject: Re: Subject (Socialist movement in Bangladesh)
Keywords: socialism and its failure
Date: 3 Jan 93 18:20:22 GMT
Followup-To: Subject
Organization: University of Delaware

In article <C09oDK.2vA@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> mannan@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (D RIGHT 1) writes:
>Failure of Socialism in Bangladesh??? What crap..since bangladesh 
>became independent I have seen my father work in his own business
>and seen many other prosper in Bangladesh!!! As far as I know even
>the farmers in Bangladesh have owned their OWN lands for generations
>(when they could)...so I don't understand where topics like "Failure
>of socialism in Bangladesh come from" .. Bangladesh is a capitalistic
>country this statement would be more appropiate if we could get rid
>of the GHUSH KHOR ministers who suck on the poor peoples blood.    

What happened was Mr. Anisul Haque and I (khaleq) were debating on the role
socialist force could play in Bangladesh in order to counter any fundamentalist
force like Jamaat.  The topic could be better titled "Failure of socialist
movement in Bangladesh".  Then Mr. Zunaid Kazi posted his article criticizing
the validity of the socilist ideology in general.  I started to counter his
arguments.  At this we weren't discussing or debating the failure of socilism orsocialist movement in Bangladesh at all.  We  were debating on socilism vs.
capitalism in general.  Since Mr. Kazi's posting was in response to my orginal
article on Failure of socialism in Bangladesh, we kept the same title for the debate.  Both of us and others know and understand it very clearly that there was
no socialism in practice in Bangladesh.
>
>I would do anything in my power to make Dhaka University a safer place.
>But the Prime Minister of the country.. who is supposed to put the 
>country above anything else can't dissolve her political partie's
>branch at the University. Shame on her and  all the so called leaders
>of the country. BNP and AWAMI LEAGUE are like two monarchies..the 
>leaders of the parties inheriting power from their husband and father!
>Both parties have people who are much better qualified than either 
>Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda Zia to lead their respective parties!
>
>I dont understand leaders..they even fight with each other on
>BIJOY DIBOSH .. They should be ashamed of themselves.

I couldn't agree more.

Since I couldn't finish expressing my views on the causes of failure in the
socialist movement in Bangladesh, I hope to bring up the topic again sometime
soon.  If we want to see Bangladesh prosper we will have to embrace socialism
in Bangladesh, otherwise we will have to surrender to the fundamentalists in
Bangladesh.  The choice is ours, but our children will have to live with the
consequences.  Understanding of a problem is part of the solution.  I don't
think, personally, that the socialists in Bangladesh do understand the causes
of their failure or maybe they don't want to analyze, because most of them
are not socialists in their hearts yet want to exploite public support in the
name of socilism.  In any case, an academic analysis of the failure is a must.
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Khaleq
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