An constant feature of political history is the use of exile for conflict management. Like Napoleon in Elba/St. Helena. It’s a major theme in both the Ramayana and Mahabharata, and iirc in the Homeric epics as well. Funny with all this exit/voice talk we don’t talk exile too.
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In modernity, literal exile is limited to dictators fleeing countries after being deposed and occasionally returning. This is a sideshow. In liberal democracies, exile = parties being out of power. Twist is, it’s not just the leaders: their entire mass base of support is exiled.
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Beautiful analysis.
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This doesn't work. See Iran 1970s: the Shah exiled Khomeini and people literally made pilgrimages to Iraq to seek out Khomeini and ask him to lead a revolution against the Shah. Being exiled by an unpopular government is even more powerful than martyrdom.
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