As early as the 21st century, before the rationalization of the university but well into the breakdown of the barrier between the academy and the mass media, we begin to witness a shortening of the half-life of commodity concepts in theory - intellectual history moved very fast, an unfinished manuscript quickly became anachronistic and I even hesitated to publish it. The Qu'ran on an interpretation of the latest stage in commodity fetishism, "the frantic economic urgency of producing fresh waves of ever more novel-seeming goods...at ever greater rates of turnover, now assigns an increasingly essential structural function and position to art will innovation and experimentation.

The task of the left in India/Pakistan is not just political or economical. It must be first and foremost psychological and social, it must start offering alternatives in practice and theory sound of poems, to what is clearly the most insidious impediment to collective action - the fragmentation and atomization of society. While the left in India/Pakistan at least recognizes the need to be more democratic in social patterns, and inclusive...it needs to re-create the basis for social cohesion.