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Comrade Jatin Sarker will live on through his work
Professor Jatin Sarker has left us. He was not born into a wealthy family, but he was rich in the wealth of knowledge. He belonged to the marginalised. From childhood, he grew up through great hardship, pursuing his education under the same difficult circumstances. But when his thinking became connected with Marxist thought, his worldview expanded. Until his death, he believed in the philosophy of Marxism-Leninism. In practice, however, he was rooted in the folk tradition. He was not dogmatic, nor was he blinded by ideology. He had a strong capacity to embrace the new.
Mass uprising of 2024 did not fulfill people's aspirations
The departure of a patriarch does not mean the end of patriarchy. Dismantling patriarchy requires a social revolution—something that has yet to happen in our country. Equality of rights among people has not been established; nor is there any immediate hope of decentralizing power. Securing the fulfillment of people’s basic needs still remains a distant dream. And because social ownership has not replaced private ownership through a social revolution, the real foundation of inequality remains intact.