Modi’s task, however, will be far harder than the one that Vajpayee faced a decade ago. For India is now in the dangerous middle stage of capitalist development that Europe passed through in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This is the stage at which a relatively new, and financially insecure, propertied class tries to tame the growing class conflict by diverting the attention of the have-nots towards convenient scapegoats on whom they can pin the blame for their misfortunes. Europe chose Jews to be the scapegoats. The result was a rising, increasingly virulent, anti-Semitism that culminated in the Holocaust.
Posted on: Tue, 20 May 2014 00:30:00 +0000
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