Trilogies are treacherous – this one is certainly one – I have no idea whether I can link this one with the other two that have gone before!
But I have to write! So, I write! Too much is going on!
Panchayat elections!
I am an unabashed running dog of the CPI(M). Despite all their inhumanities! Despite the violence! Despite all the anti-democratic incidents that have been reported in the Press!
Oh, Yes! Anti-democratic, was it ? Violence?
We thought only the Maoists resorted to political violence and that’s why anybody faintly/remotely, somehow, falsely or truly, someone like Dr Binayak Sen, has been claimed to be connected with the Maoists and on the basis of this flimsy claim had to be jailed and sent to hell without any kind of democratic justice!
Who is violent? Dr Sen? Or, the State?
Where does violence start and where does it end?
If the state is always and consistently violent, how do you fight the state in a democracy?
I think, think Gandhi! Think Munnabhai!
Or, come to democratic power like the CPI(M) and retain it! Why not? Why should a democratically elected Communist party give up power to Ram,Shyam, Jadhu or Madhu? And, Violence? Oh, come on! Baccche log! How many of our comrades have died to bullets aimed at ending Communist rule in West Bengal?
Yes, the Maoists – Big Dadas of Communism and Revolution – what is Mr Prachanda doing in Kathmandu? How is it that he is talking about market forces, inviting foreign investment, inviting world monopoly capital to come and take over Nepal now that it has been freed for you (world monopoly capital) by the Maoists – so, Indian Maoists are doing the same thing, is it?
Freeing India from all previous fetters so that world monopoly capital can take over! Wonderful, what a role for the Maoists? But, it is actually a great role, if they understand its historical significance!
Don’t you understand silly fools that capturing state power gets you nowhere – it only leads you to accepting world monopoly capital?!?
You have to first have a model for an alternative economy – a communist economy – only then having state power makes any sense – CPI(M) is doing that – learning it the hard way – as it always happens – the way of history – I am only an observer – I cannot support everything nor oppose everything but I can always float along with history!
