Tariq Ali quoteTariq Ali [1943-0]
Pakistani Historian 
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| The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised a political and military, if not economic, hegemony on the culture as a whole. The idea of democracy was first born and practised here. |
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