Thursday, October 22, 2009

Parallels between Pakistan Taliban and Indian Maoists

- Their cause is the most fundamental part of constitutions of their respective countries. (Pakistan an Islamic Republic, India a socialist republic).
This gets them massive tacit support and also some vehement support among country's intellectuals.
"To quote Ayn Rand: Whenever there is a conflict between 2 parties sharing same basic premise(rational or irrational), the most consistent party wins."
Here, premises are economic equality and Islamic totalitarianism. Inconsistent parties are respective governments.

- Both started in respective tribal regions of their country.(Red districts of central-east India are India's Waziristan).
Former has spread to major Pakistani cities, the latter is spreading.

- For both, compromise talks were planned and with former it failed.
Philosophical implications: http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/compromise.html