Afghanistan with Tariq Ali
The Dig
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I Don't Agree With Raskolnikov's Assessment of Amanula
Senior bolshevik raskolnikov remarked that amanula had introduced bourgeois reforms without a bourgeoisie whose cost had fallen on peasants, whom he had failed to win over with an agrarian reform. I think it's a bit simplicity, quite honestly. He'd just taken ba, wasn't and he never pretended to be a socialist. But there is, of course, an element of truth in his assessment. Then it was largely a country of tribal peasants, so that amanul hi's suggesting was a bit far fetched.
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