Kumar charts the development of Orientalist discourse from the first perceptions of Islam as an emerging, competing rival and threat to Christian Europe, to the depiction of a religion of backward, irrational and uncivilized people incapable of democratic self-governance and enlightened..…

It also provides history of the struggles from the national uprising in 2008 to the general strikes beginning May 2010, the occupation of the squares, environmental struggles, and the epic and ongoing battle over the privatization of ERT.. ..…

Finally, it offers method for how progressives and left might view Islam, outlining the approach taken by Marxists and revolutionaries, with particular emphasis on the theory and practice formulated during the first few years of Comintern, the body of radicals formed after Russian Revolution. ..…

Along with many of my school classmates, I was inspired by the work of Jewish Salo Wittmayer Baron. ..…