Gandhi's goal was India, its liberation from the yoke of colonialism, and it succeeded, but because there was no idea of its future, it fell apart.
Author: Farid Younes
It has been eight months since the Taliban illegally came to power, and opposition groups have failed to save the country from oppression, tyranny, poverty, unhappiness, and misogyny. The only group that resisted from the very beginning and did not betray its ideas is the Ahmad Massoud Resistance Front.
Like it or not, the front has its problems, and the opposition is trying to marginalize it even more because of his martyr father and because he is young and inexperienced, but it is clear that he is firm in his position. Ahmad Massoud is the only political figure who has proposed citizenship along with Islam and modernity. In the system of citizenship, all members of society have equal rights before the law.
Over the past eight months, it has become clear that the Taliban opposition, whatever its ideological and political tastes, has failed to form a national alliance against the Taliban. This is important in the history of Afghanistan because it reflects the fact that anti-Taliban political groups do not study the global struggle enough to learn from the past and act.
As we turn the pages of history, we see that the global struggle has always had a goal in the first place. Afghanistan's political factions do not have a common goal both inside and outside the country, and this has made the Taliban even stronger without the recognition of the international community. The goal should be to free Afghanistan from the yoke of an ignorant group. In Afghanistan, the target was not specified.
The second is a political thought for the struggle; even Islamic parties that claim to be Islamic do not exist, because the people for betrayal and ethnocentrism condemn them. The history of the struggle shows that political thought plus general unification and a specific goal leads to the defeat of the enemy. In this regard, the intellectual and political tastes and selfishness of political groups that consider themselves more knowledgeable and experienced are a waste of time and do not work.
The political struggle of Afghanistan against the Soviet Socialist Republic had one goal: to liberate Afghanistan from the clutches of communism, disbelief, and atheism. However, jihad lacked sound political thinking about the future of Afghanistan, and from a sociopolitical point of view, jihad went its own way and failed.
All successful struggles thought together with the purpose of the struggle and united based on the same purpose and thought. Gandhi's goal was India, its liberation from the yoke of colonialism, and it succeeded, but because there was no idea of its future, it fell apart. That is, from the point of view of the political sociology of Gandhi, whose idea of non-violence is known throughout the world, it failed, but historians, sociologists, and anthropologists refute this. This is the disadvantage of Afghanistan.
Another important issue in the struggle is that there is no universal unity to achieve the goal, which, as we see, does not exist in Afghanistan. In addition, when we study the popular struggle against Nazi Germany during World War II, we see that it is not only a struggle for freedom from the yoke of an ignorant and oppressive group but also a struggle to live and build the future. The Jews taught their children in the basements of their houses so that the children would keep up with the times. Alternatively, they created a strong detachment of spies so that they could attack the enemy. The history of wrestling in Cyprus in the 1950s and 1960s is very instructive for today's wrestling.
Can Afghanistan succeed? Yes and no. Yes, if the goal is set and all other questions are put aside. The idea is fixed and that idea cannot be made from old and rotten ideas for a new future. Thought must be new so that the next generation can have hope. In practice, it is difficult to achieve unity in ethnic and tribal Afghanistan because ethnic tensions undermine unity.
