I wonder if the views expressed by the West Bengal chief minister has
relevance in Goa.
Sachin Phadte
I have to follow capitalism: Buddha
Hindustan Times
July 19, 2007
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Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee in an exclusive interview with HT at
Writers' Building on Monday.
It is like being thrown about in an ideological cocktail shaker. You get off
a gleaming passenger jet and drive over a soaring expressway to the
227-year-old Writers' Buildings in Kolkata to meet a very capitalist
communist politician.
West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee says there is no place
for jobless growth, and now that the communists' radical land reform, which
broke up large zamindar land-holdings among small and marginal
share-croppers, has nearly run its course, the logical next step is
industrialisation. This is not music to the ears of the CPI(M)'s allies in
the Left Front coalition that has ruled the state, unchallenged, for the
past 30 years.
"I am very clear in my mind. This is capitalism. I just cannot build
socialism in one part of the country. They (leftist critics) theoretically
cannot accept this position. Academically they cannot accept this position.
I cannot build socialism in one state of India. I have to follow capitalism.
But we have to protect against the negative effects of a capitalist
society," Bhattacharjee told the Hindustan Times in an exclusive two-hour
interview.
"The world is changing, Communists are also changing. We can't stick to our
old dogmas. Deng Xiaoping used to say 'Learn truth from the facts, not from
dogmas'."
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