Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Avoid 'demonstrably perverse identification of the backward classes' warned the Supreme Court

http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=c1309805-4d34-4721-baa4-56840a1fbfbb&MatchID1=4456&TeamID1=1&TeamID2=3&MatchType1=2&SeriesID1=1104&PrimaryID=4456

'Crude determinism in all forms endangers democracy. Economic determinism gave socialism a bad name and eventually dismantled the mighty Soviet Union. Even the charismatic intellectual reputation of Marx was belittled by the dogmatic material determinism of latter-day Marxists. By the same token, let not caste slurs and sneers, and a few tarnished pieces of political silver, undermine our hard-won democracy.'

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