Quotas, Protests and Political Monsters in Bangladesh
The upheaval in Bangladesh is reminiscent of Antonio Gramsci’s thesis on political interregnums: “The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters.”
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The upheaval in Bangladesh is reminiscent of Antonio Gramsci’s thesis on political interregnums: “The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters.”
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