Suchergebnisse

Foreword: The national question and socialism -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- What is a society? -- Is there mankind and in what form does It exist? -- Nation and society - concrete and abstract concepts -- Society, nation, state -- People, nation, state -- Nation -- Homeland -- International law and mankind -- Socialism, nation and mankind -- The right of a nation -- The dignity and priority of a nation -- The Fund of Mankind, possible future -- Theories of nation -- The Georgian nation -- Conclusion: The ideal and the practice.

This film documents the violence and terror in Punjab, India--a land torn apart by religious fundamentalists and a repressive government. After examining the political turmoil of the late 1970's and the rise of Sikh fundamentalism, the film focuses on the legacy of Bhagat Singh, a young socialist executed by the British in 1931 at the age of 23. Singh has since become a legend. Today the State eulogizes him as a nationalist while Sikh separatists portray him as a Sikh militant. In fact, Singh was neither. Just prior to his death he wrote a book which he entitled "Why I Am An Atheist." In strife-torn Punjab a band of brave Sikhs and Hindus carry Bhagat Singh's secular legacy from village to village. In the religiously charged countryside ideas of internationalism and secularism now carry a price