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Hasan Manto, whose works were attacked by numerous left critics for propagating pessimism and even immorality.
The latter were willing to accept the
multilayered depictions of social mores
by Manto, but could not countenance
the absence of a fix for societys ills. Ali
argues that the communists emphasised
a historical materialist lens and the primacy of social structure to undermine
Mantos empathy for individual experience. In doing so, the Pakistani left
reflected the Cold War orthodoxies of
the global communist movement.
Perhaps, what was more problematic
about this posture was that it situated
the progressive literary campunwittingly or otherwisein proximity to
statist discourse, particularly vis--vis
the imperative of establishing a new
Pakistan founded upon correct moral
principles. Ali notes how the progressives competed with non-progressives
such as Hasan Askari and M D Taseer in
asserting a vision for the future, although he does acknowledge that the
latter ultimately associated themselves
with the official position on national
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