The July Revolution in Bangladesh Is Rooted in Meta-Modernist Philosophy — International Points

Opinion by Mawdudur Rahman, Habib Siddiqui (boston / philadelphia)Monday, October 28, 2024Inter Press Service

Meta-modernism is the cultural philosophy of the digital age, coined by Mas’ud Zavarzadeh in 1975. meta-modernism is the Age of the Web or extra balanced worldview. As one analyst places it, we went from modernism — “Make it new!” Let’s form Historical past! – to postmodernism — every thing sucks! Nothing actually issues! — to meta-modernism – possibly issues aren’t this black-and-white, possibly there is a center floor.

Meta-modernist thinkers understand the current world round them as a menace to their very existence. They work with pragmatic idealism and haven’t any grand narrative considering or any orthodox certainties. In different phrases, they attempt to strike a steadiness between all of this. They acknowledge that they need to face the issues of the society.

It will be flawed to assume that this folks’s revolution was all a couple of change of presidency. Its victory is not like 1947 and 1971. In each these instances, there was a change of presidency with none structural change. In consequence, the incoming authorities adopted imperialist practices of exploitation left behind by the British. Subsequent governments turned the nation right into a failed democracy, so as to management, exploit and subjugate its residents. The police had been used as an enabling drive to subjugate the residents, whereas the legislature and judiciary labored because the rubber stamps to maintain the full management of the federal government. This evil social system has corrupted the mindset and conduct of our folks. An immoral society was shaped with no worry of accountability, whose driving drive was unfathomed greed and mantra — the ‘rule and exploitation by repression’. Authorities workers noticed themselves as bosses and never as public servants. They thrived upon corruption in any respect ranges.

There at the moment are two competing ideologies in entrance of Bangladesh – one among decaying fascism that wishes to resurface underneath outdated management and the opposite is the younger management of equality and morality. Because the revolution demonstrated, the ‘New Bangladesh’ doesn’t approve fascist-supporting corrupt establishments. It needs a corruption-free new society. It’s for paradigm shift – a transformational change.

The Chief Advisor and Scholar Coordinators have clearly highlighted the beliefs of New Bangladesh via their speeches and interviews. Dr. Yunus stated, ‘We’re all one nation’. It is a clarion name to determine a holistic change in society. Such a radical change in society requires a change in values. A change in values lies within the change in public ideology.

The brand new Bangladesh shouldn’t be the outdated Bangladesh with a brand new cowl. It calls for a change within the elementary values of human conduct, actions, and beliefs. These embody structural modifications, private modifications, expectations.

To know the ideology of this alteration, one has to hear fastidiously to the speech of Mahfuz Alam, the ‘thinker’ of the motion. 5 factors might be deduced from his current talks: (1) unity, (2) ‘language is their inspiration’, (3) group management, (4) they’re youngsters of time, and that (5) they don’t seem to be a slave to conventional considering. His views replicate at present’s meta-modernism.

For any transformational change to succeed, the change brokers should personal it, direct it, and finally excel in it. We predict that this revolution of holistic change can profit from the revolutionary approaches adopted in China and Cuba that had been additionally led by youths. They owned the revolution and didn’t enable it to be hijacked by the reactionaries. We see a few of these traits within the minds and mission of the Bangladeshi revolutionaries.

The underside line is, bringing any modifications in outdated tradition habits was by no means a straightforward activity. This revolution has introduced a possibility to vary the future of Bangladesh as by no means earlier than.

The meta-modernist youths of Bangladesh have come to steer and transfer ahead; they won’t return to the outdated methods. Their message is obvious: if you don’t be a part of us, the nation won’t await you. If older generations don’t undertake the brand new view of change, we worry additional instability and chaos to come back, whose final result can’t be nice.

Dr. Mawdudur Rahman, Professor Emeritus, Suffolk College, Boston, USA. He might be contacted at: [email protected].

Dr. Habib Siddiqui is a peace and human rights activists. His newest guide – ‘Bangladesh: a polarized and divided nation?’ is obtainable within the Amazon.com. Each are members of the steering committee of Esho Desh Gori – Let’s Construct Bangladesh.

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