In truth, I suspect maybe one in every 10000 who are drawn to these small
> socialist groups as members or sympathizers don’t stick around for very
> long, though I haven’t done a scientific survey. They drift away because
> these groups stagnate and acquire many of the characteristics of sects,
> which soon becomes apparent. If there were a growing mass socialist
> movement embedded in the neighbourhoods and workplaces, it would be a
> different story.
Do you think all that's as true in rural Pakistan, under Taliban rule, as, say, on the campus of Cambridge University?
-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."