A dissident voice is Reformist Mohammad-Reza Javadi-Hesar in Mashhad, who told Radio Farda the foundation of
Reformism is justice.
Back in 2010, I had the opportunity to participate in a roundtable with Mark Thompson in Berlin where he suggested there is a division, or cleavage, of political movements and attitudes along two lines: populism and
reformism. To quickly sketch things out in terms of personalities, Marcos and Estrada were populists; Ramos and the Aquinos were reformists.
Having heard of Rizal's
reformism, young Riego was enthusiastic.
One of the founding members of the erstwhile Bharatiya Jana Sangh, Vajpayee helped restructure it into the Bharatiya Janata Party and tethered its leanings to pragmatic
reformism. He polished to a shine a myriad facets of India that still burnish its growth -- infrastructure reforms, economic stimuli, disinvestment, research and development, repurposing of the telecom sector (India's telecom industry is today the second-largest in the world), to name just a few.
Tunisia, according to his argument, stands out not as a model that can be replicated in other Arab countries, but rather as an anomaly, based on its history of
reformism that sets it on a separate trajectory from the rest of the region.Masri is an honorary fellow of the Foreign Policy Association.
But this
reformism is just what distinguishes Marxism from anarchism--in this respect, Chomsky is too Marxist!
Apart from militancy, this group is also dedicated to proselytizing and pursuing non-violent
reformism intended to turn Pakistan into a "pure" Islamic state.
This challenges more conservative views that treat corporate capitalist globalisation as an unstoppable steamroller or implicitly adopt a state-centric
reformism. Burgmann's quite different strategic class approach is reflected in her choice of chapter titles, each using active verbs: Confronting ...
He sees "market
reformism" as a strand of thought running through the history of American capitalism from at least 1870 forward.