The (post nandigra) left industrial policy has clearly divided indian intelligentsia. --- CK Vishwanath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > "In assessing the specific situation of West Bengal, > we must > distinguish between the government's industrial > strategy, which I, > like Amartya Sen, believe to be generally correct > and the means the > government chose to implement it, which are > appalling." > > Violence on the Left: Nandigram and the Communists > of West Bengal > By Martha C. Nussbaum > > Dissent Magazine, Spring 2008 > > [Martha C. Nussbaum is Distinguished Service > Professor of Law and > Ethics at the University of Chicago, appointed in > the Philosophy > Department, Law School, and Divinity School. She is > an Affiliate of > the Committee on Southern Asian Studies and a board > member of the > Human Rights Program.] > > AFTER A PERIOD of relative impotence, the > Hindu-supremacist right in > India has rebounded, with the December reelection of > Bharatiya Janata > Party candidate Narendra Modi as chief minister in > Gujarat. Modi's > role in the mass murders of Muslims in that state in > February 2002 has > long been so well documented that he has been denied > a visa to enter > the United States. [...] > > Meanwhile, however, violence has been in the news > from a very > different part of the Indian political spectrum. > People connected to > the Communist government of West Bengal have been > guilty of some > extremely vile actions, including rape and murder, > toward dissident > peasants, in a struggle over land acquisition, and > the government has > done nothing to prevent these terrible things. This > struggle has split > the Indian left, between those who think that people > on the left must > maintain solidarity in the face of right-wing > threats and those who > insist on calling murder murder no matter who does > it. It's a conflict > from which we can learn a lot, not only about Indian > politics but also > about what stance a contemporary left movement can > reasonably and > morally take on rural development issues. [...] > > Full: > <http://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/?article=1157> > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
