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Ideology has enduring charm By Udayan Namboodiri Politics without ideology is like Diwali without Lakshmi Puja. Or Durga Puja without new clothes. Onam without jantraparam. Winter without Christmas. For some years Now, an argument making the rounds in some influential circles of intellectuals holds that politics based on conviction has reached a dénouement. Francis Furukawa had stated in the early 1990s that the end of the Cold War Was to be understood as the complete Victory of capitalism over socialism. According to him, the disintegration of the Soviet Union in climax to the all-round collapse of Marxism-Leninism based societies in the late 1980s could be viewed as the end of human historical progression. Unlike Huntington’s Clash of Civilisations theory that caused an uproar of dissent among intellectuals everywhere, Furukawa’s End of History thesis received More acceptance. After history departs from the stage, what happens to ideology? I think the whole hypothesis is based on a surreal projection of man’s political dimension. Furukawa’s doctrine Was produced in the aftermath of terrific self-congratulation (some of it justified) after the fall of the “evil empire”. He belongs to a generation which had “isms” hanging like mill stones from the collective neck thanks to - More available

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