Farhad Mazhar (ফরহাদ মজহার) is a Bangladeshi writer, columnist, poet, social and human rights activist, and environmentalist. He graduated with honours in pharmacy from the University of Dhaka in 1967 and worked as a pharmacist in New York in the seventies and eighties. Mazhar also studied political economy in New School of Social Research. He is the founding member and managing director of UBINIG (Policy Research for Development Alternative) a policy research and advocacy group in Bangladesh working as an integral part of the community with the grassroots people to strengthen common resistance against the dominant processes of globalisation as well as creating space for strategic negotiations whenever possible.
Marx, Foucault and Revolutionary Spirituality. Freedom from oppression. Great. Farhad Mazhar is a great Marxist philosopher. He had done an excellent analysis on Karl Marx and Marxist philosophy. He also described about Michelle Foucault and Foucault ' ideas about power and Foucault 's interest on revolutionary spirituality which exist in Shia Islam and Iran. Foucault analyzed about capital punishment and why instead of executing capital punishment openly in an open space in front of public western nations started to execute capital punishment secretly within the confinement. It’s all relate with power and the structure of power and the execution of power. Even the coward who is afraid of power is the bearer and career of power and is constantly helping the structure of power by being afraid of power.