Tahir Badakhshi

Taher Badakhshi
طاهر بدخشی
BornOctober 30, 1933 (1933-10-30)
Badakhshan, Afghanistan
DiedOctober 30, 1979(1979-10-30) (aged 46)
Kabul Afghanistan
Occupation(s)Studies of economics at Kabul University. Journalist, author, cultural and political personality
Political partySettam-e-Melli

Taher Badakhshi (October 30, 1933 – October 30, 1979) (Persian: طاهر بدخشی) was a cultural and political personality in Afghanistan. He had performed a large variety of cultural and political activities in Afghanistan including organisation of different scale gatherings of authors, journalists and writers of the country and hosting meetings in which the intelligentsia of different cultural and political backgrounds came together for discussions, and he was the founder of "Revolutionary Organization of the Toilers of Afghanistan",[1][2] (Persian: سازمان انقلابی زحمتکشان افغانستان) a liberal leftist group with affinity to the Non-Aligned Movement that was founded in Yugoslavia in 1956, triggered by Josip Broz Tito, and promoted by the two most pivotal personalities in the global South: Jawaharlal Nehru and Gamal Abdel Nasser. The group has also had a firm touch to the liberal principles and heterogeneous ideas of liberalism[3] and modernism,[4] and of course in the very temporal and geographic context of the country, it had affinities to the leftist liberation and anti-colonial movements in Asia, Latin America and Africa.[5]

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  2. ^ Barnett R. Rubin (2002), The Fragmentation of Afghanistan: State Formation and Collapse in the International System (in German), Yale University Press, ISBN 0300095198, retrieved 2017-12-01
  3. ^ Freeden, Michael; Stears, Marc (2013). Liberalism. The Oxford Handbook of Political Ideologies. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199585977.013.0020. ISBN 9780199585977.
  4. ^ Rabaté, Jean-Michel (2013). Rabaté, Jean-Michel (ed.). A Handbook of Modernism Studies. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell. doi:10.1002/9781118488638. ISBN 9780470658734.
  5. ^ Badakhshi, Taher. Notes and Remarks (in print). Berlin Germany: The "Taher Badakhshi Institute" Publication.