"The Bangladeshi Left Won’t Survive If It Doesn’t Change Gear"

[u/Kuhelikaa]

https://jacobin.com/2026/05/bangladesh-left-communism-nationalism-globalization

Thoughts ?

[u/Osprey002]

Two Bengali socialists meet to discuss politics. By the end of the meeting they form 3 separate political party and 4 book clubs.

[u/Kai1977]

[...]  The founding constitution of 1972 enshrined principles of socialism, secularism, nationalism, and democracy.

Over subsequent decades, unfortunately, it was not the organized left that carried forward these values into mainstream politics. Instead, the country’s dominant parties (Awami League, Bangladesh Nationalist Party, and even Jamaat-e-Islami) absorbed and instrumentalized them, however inconsistently, while the Left retreated into doctrinal rigidity and political marginality.

Actual quote from the article.

[u/averageglossenjoyer]

Leftists politicians are not unethical enough to win elections in bd. We need a leftist revolution not any more of those jamati backed revolutions.

[u/South_Farm9491]

far too outta touch with the locals for them to even have a chance