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Tariq Ali

In times of crisis, the incum...

In times of crisis, the incumbent suffers. And the bigger the crisis, the greater the punishment inflicted on those in power unless they do something that makes a change.

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Tariq Ali

There is no real agreement am...

There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.

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Tariq Ali

I am an atheist and do not kn...

I am an atheist and do not know the meaning of the 'religious pain' that is felt by believers of every cast when what they believe in is insulted.

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Tariq Ali

I am not insulted by billions...

I am not insulted by billions of Christians, Muslims and Jews believing there is a God and praying to this nonexistent deity on a regular basis.

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Tariq Ali

I think democracy is on the d...

I think democracy is on the decline in the West. Ruling parties are the same: neo-liberalism at home and wars abroad.

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Tariq Ali

I was never totally what we w...

I was never totally what we would now call 'politically correct,' even in my most militant phase. I always liked good food, good wines. I suppose it was because I had total confidence in myself.

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Tariq Ali

The Lumiere brothers first ex...

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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Tariq Ali

Young women and men who joine...

Young women and men who joined the far-left groups did so for the best of reasons. They wanted to change the world. Many fought against the stifling atmosphere in many groups.

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Tariq Ali

I am, in general, favourable ...

I am, in general, favourable to activism and social movements and hostile to graft and corruption.

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Tariq Ali

I am fully aware of the conce...

I am fully aware of the concept of political revolutions. After all, that is what we hoped might happen in the U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe, but what actually happened was capitalist restoration.

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Tariq Ali

I was in my mid-teens when so...

I was in my mid-teens when someone gave me a copy of 'Pears Encyclopaedia of Myth and Legends' as a birthday present. It sat on my shelves for many months before I looked at it. When I did, I couldn't stop reading it.

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Tariq Ali

In the Seventies, we still ha...

In the Seventies, we still had dreams and hopes of Utopia, but by the end of the decade, the world had shifted to the right.

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Tariq Ali

As a candidate, Obama project...

As a candidate, Obama projected himself as a new Reagan, above narrow party politics. He wanted to please all but has ended up annoying many.

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Tariq Ali

Western enthusiasm for democr...

Western enthusiasm for democracy stops when those opposed to its policies are elected to office.

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Tariq Ali

In 1962, President Kennedy ex...

In 1962, President Kennedy expanded an earlier trade embargo put in place by a predecessor, President Eisenhower, to a total economic blockade, which pushed the Cubans further in Moscow's direction.

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Tariq Ali

'Theogony' should be read bef...

'Theogony' should be read before the great Homeric epics because it gives an account of the cosmology that is taken for granted by Homer. It does for paganism what the Old Testament attempted to do for monotheism.

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Tariq Ali

I didn't know a thing about O...

I didn't know a thing about Oxford and had never been to Britain. My father suggested it because in 1939 he had been about to take up a place at Wadham College, but the war broke out, and he joined the Army instead.

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Tariq Ali

As a political current, Maois...

As a political current, Maoism was always weak in Britain, confined largely to students from Asia, Africa and Latin America.

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Political pundits in Delhi an...

Political pundits in Delhi and Islamabad have berated the West for its relativism and double-standards. After all why should Britain have a nuclear arsenal but not India? It is a reasonable question.

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Independence is the only way ...

Independence is the only way Scotland can realise its full political and cultural potential in the 21st century.

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