Notes More Than Ever Before

Abstract

If in our particular historic political spectra, ‘progressivism’ is a euphemism for the worldwide movement of the left, it was born because humanity needed and it will last because the world needs it today more than ever before. It is not first time that we are feeling concerned about the fate of progressive literature. Its imminent death is announced every now and then. Ever since I remember, inquisitive interviewers have been asking me the reasons for ‘the failure of progressive literature’. Perhaps this alone suffices to establish its continuous and for some, irritatingly alive presence worldwide. Like Marxism, the movement for progressive literature has had more concerned detractors than propagators who are never tire of announcing the final death/failure/, defeat of the movement. How surprising that like some ancient phoenix, it rises alive and well from its very ashes.