Amitava Kumar Quotes

For some members of the radical Left, particularly in the West, people in developing countries are an ideological abstraction, on whom fantasies of liberation are projected from a comfortable distance.

Amitava Kumar

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  Amitava Kumar
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  • Countries
  • Liberation