A THIRD FORCE DOCUMENT
and a HAPPY 2020 EVERYBODY
My 8th. book on Pakatan Harapan Performance Review in Politics, Culture, and Education is coming out in a few days (in bookstores and online. Published by SIRD/GERAKBUDAYA(Malaysia) -WorldWise Books (USA) Here is an EXCERPT:
Third Force after Mahathirism?
The forty essays in the two preceding sections characterise the current state of the Mahathirist rule. They focus on the complex linkages between politics and education. Those essays are my observations of what has transpired under a new brand of Mahathirism. The one-man-one-ideology-one-determinism-to rule as long as life allows, through the remains of one’s days, not wishing to let go and institute a peaceful transition of power through means most democratic – this is the Malaysian plague of power. But what is Mahathirism, beyond a mere attributing to the man named Dr. Mahathir Mohamad? How will this unique Asian despotic ideology foundation most of times upon the truncated logic of power, of deranged discourse acceptable as “wisdom of the old man” it seems, meet its end? What will Malaysians hope as replacement – so that the meaning of “sustainable politics” could be arrived at? In the following paragraphs, I will discuss Mahathirism and the third force that need to be given birth to.
--- Azly Rahman
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