sorry, my bad marx is german i was probably sleeping during my sociology class. Hr did his major work in London though.
As i have stated earlier by karl marx the transition has to be from a prosperous capitalist state, one of the major reasons why communism failed in the USSR, lenin switched from feudalism to communism. So did mao, thus millions died of hunger and famine.
Bangladesh is a fairly young country, give it some time, i remember when I was young there were strikes atleast 4-5 days of the month, now the strikes are far between, it is indeed improving. Let our per capita GDP increase to $1500, the government will have less power in the country. Our right wing and left wing are slowly maturing. Next step will be to denationalize a few more public companies that have too much corruption in them like TNT. Already talks are being held at the top level to denationalize the water.
The good thing that the two Begums did, which I give them credit for, is that they established democracy and put the army back in the barracks and cantonments, where they belong. Armed forces should protect the country, they are not trained to run a country and they should not touch it with a ten foot pole. Every time Army comes into picture, they mess things up, which is what happened with MUA and FUA, as our M_Saint bhai mentioned in one of his posts.
If we look at Pakistan, they still have Army controlling politics, which is one of the major problems for this country. At least Bangladesh has been out of that vicious cycle since 1991. So, yes things are improving slowly in Bangladesh, but a lot of things need to be done. For these details we will discuss further in the Bangladesh defense portion in some other threads, as we are going off topic in this thread.
But what is important for every country that wants to be part of a bigger union, is to democratize, democratize and democratize. How do we do that? We need to organize our civil society, people who are internet literate, can absorb information from many different sources, form their own opinion and then voice this opinion. The Arab spring started a new wave, Indignados and Occupy Wall Street movement is a subsequent wave that started in EU and USA. For other countries where the reach of the internet is not as much as it is in the developed countries, we can start organizing with the people who have internet access, who can be considered a part of the civil society of a particular country. The main goals for these movements is to:
- bring power back to the 99%, from the 1% elite
- use more consensus decision making among the 99% from grass roots level, using the web
- finally let the 99% people decide their future, not the 1% elite, including the political class who are an integral part of the 1% (this includes Hasina, Khaleda, Assad, Zardari, Imran Khan, Democrats, Republicans, Putin, Mullah's of Iran et al)
If we cannot unite the people (at least the internet literate civil society part), then we would have no way to move forward towards a better future for our people in our individual countries and work towards creating powerful unions to withstand threats from larger nation states, which had the advantage of accidents of history on their side.