Hi, I was wondering at the reappearence of 'job talk' in order to legitimise a move made by the present government. In the age of industrial capitalism, the EMS government brought Birla to Mavoor with the support of a crude version of this argument. Now in neoliberal times, intellectuals and experts are desperately relying on this one and only only 'pragmatic' excuse to rationalise their complacency in government policies.
The erstwhile Soviet Union [ under the leadership of Lenin and Stalin ] was praised by some intellectuals for the giant leaps made in industrial development , job creation, economic growth etc.which was comparable to Capitalist world. At hindsight we realise that people of that country were not satisfied with such 'development' and opportunities and demanded 'democracy' !!! It is high time we take democracy as criterion to assess policy decisions and its consequences. While speaking of 'jobs being created' are we speaking as beneficiaries or 'speaking for others' ? If the second instance is the case, get lost with your patronising blabla!!! This has long been the undemocratic strategy followed by all experts siding with undemocratic governmnets in order to nullify the struggles by affected people at umpteen number of locations including Narmada. Will anybody convince me why Smart city is to be welcomed? Mind you! I am not in the least interested in the future or past of CPIM!! So please spare me of comparisons with UDF policy and the like. I wish experts and intellectuals serving CPI M could at least learn a language in which they could address publlic instead of assuming everybody to be CPIM sympathisers. Regards Dileep On 5/29/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On May 28, 2:31 pm, Anivar Aravind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > .."right to recall".. > > We need to be critical about this "right to recall". Indian > subcontinent appears to be undergoing a constant demographic change, > though its pace and extent varies from place to place. Legislators are > now increasingly getting conscious and excited over the new found > phenomenon that a *development initiative* is all what is needed to > drive out their adversaries from their habitats. A new project > inserted in such a premise would soon see a new demographic contour, > whose appearance will be to the liking of every legislator, one that > will fetch the legislator more rewards than punishment. > > Against this backdrop, a right to recall is worthless - especially > since the antagonising voters would have already evicted their > territory. The newly moved in *voters* would find nothing wrong with > the legislator. > > If election commission came out with a report on how much voters have > been effected during every franchise, the extent of this cunningness > will get exposed. Till now, we were given to understand that its to > incorporate the new eligible voters or make corrections on existing > voters list that such an exercise is being carried out. Unless this > comes, we may not be able to silence the development-pied-piper and > its followers. > CK Raju > > > > > -- Dileep Raj Tel: 09447316701 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ greenyouth mailinglist is the activist support mailinglist for kerala run by Global Alternate Information Applications (GAIA) To post to this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
