--- On Sun, 6/15/08, C.K. Vishwanath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: C.K. Vishwanath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [GreenYouth] Re: POLITICAL EXECUTIVE & LEGAL REMEDIES
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Date: Sunday, June 15, 2008, 4:31 PM
> The parliamentary path of the indian communists had
> theorised Com.Ems in 1957,"we will do better than the
> congress".The indian liberal democratic experiments
> of indian communists have not been theorised yet.Now,the
> west bengal bengal chief minister and p.b.member com.B.B
> saying about the new governance agenda of the
> party.Kerala,bengal and tripura has to go with this new
> governance agenda.
> prabat patnaik is also writing about party and
> government(Party and communists).he writes about the
> post-comintern politics and also the long term rule of
> capitalism.What is the role party during this period?when
> is the revolutionary period etc.How is to connect the short
> term refrom measures with long term objective.that is
> socialism.
> But,they are still saying about indian state as a
> bourgeoise-landlord class.They have not explained that how
> do this tpye of bourgeoise-landlord unity happen?
> This is not a particular problem of indian communists.this
> had happened in euorpe earlier.the nepal experiment is
> coming.opposition,collaboration and instituionalisation---many of the
> political analysts are writng about the politics of indian parliamentary
> communists.Indian democracy's new experiments are oftten clashes with the cps
> new paths.
>
>
>
> --- On Sat, 6/14/08, damodar prasad
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > From: damodar prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: [GreenYouth] POLITICAL EXECUTIVE & LEGAL
> REMEDIES
> > To: "Green Youth Movement"
> <[email protected]>
> > Date: Saturday, June 14, 2008, 11:40 PM
> > *Political executive and the legal remedies*
> >
> >
> >
> > Generally when the Left is in power it is
> characterized by
> > political
> > decision making guided a political and ideological
> > programme, which has
> > resonance beyond the State. It is an accepted
> principle
> > while the undivided
> > CPI was in power and also after the LDF was
> constituted and
> > came to power.
> >
> >
> >
> > The political mandate of the party is transferred to
> > governance and
> > implemented there after. The political mandate is
> clearly
> > founded on the
> > party programme and the organizations larger
> objectives.
> > This has clearly
> > distinguished the Left from the Congress led UDF rule.
> > Congress rule is not
> > dependent on any particular policy framework. The rule
> much
> > depends on the
> > agenda set up by the regional bourgeois (in places
> like
> > Kerala) and at the
> > national level by business groups and conglomerates.
> For
> > example, opening of
> > educational sector, to avail ADB loan and to implement
> > governance reforms by
> > the UDF emerged not as part of well-thought out plan.
> As
> > UDF leaders
> > themselves have remarked, they were only measures to
> move
> > with the time and
> > align itself with the national Congress organization.
> >
> >
> >
> > The landmark "Land Reforms" enactment by the
> CPI
> > government as every body
> > knows was part of political mandate arrived by the
> > Communist Party even
> > before it came to power. In last decade, when LDF
> could
> > rule with a majority
> > confidence, the literacy programme to people's
> plan
> > campaign was also part
> > of political mandate arrived within the Left
> constituents.
> >
> >
> >
> > However, the key point is that the present LDF rule
> has
> > grossly violated
> > this original Left principle and each day of the LDF
> in
> > governance
> > demonstrates what can be termed as *"retreat of
> the
> > political".* Put in
> > strong terms, the present LDF government accentuates
> the
> > *'defeat of the
> > political".* *"Legal-judicial"* is
> > succinctly occupying *this space
> > long-left by the "political"*.
> *Diminutiveness
> > of the political in front of
> > the judicial is something to be worried. *
> >
> > * *
> >
> > When the Land reforms Bill was challenged in the
> court, the
> > party and its
> > constituents were equivocal in fighting for the
> > implementation of the bill
> > and went to the people to galvanize support. Generally
> > speaking, the
> > 'political", which is based on the
> ideological
> > programme was more important
> > and anything outside this realm was
> > "extra-political". The terming of
> > judiciary as 'bourgeois court", by EMS which
> led
> > to the contempt of court
> > may be recalled. This significantly points to the
> > party's and its
> > constituents particular grounding and belief in the
> > "political-ideological
> > and the popular".
> >
> >
> >
> > Now come to 2006 LDF government. Even not accepted by
> the
> > Party, the LDF
> > record victory owes much to VS campaigns. Apart from
> this,
> > there was no
> > clear political objective and programme at the time of
> > electioneering and
> > assumption of power. VS Achuthanadan was long-fighting
> the
> > image of
> > anti-developmentalist accorded to him by the UDF
> leadership
> > and silently
> > endorsed by the CPIM leadership as well. Since
> assuming
> > power, Kerala has
> > witnessed the worst of all political situations, which
> is
> > the affirmation of
> > 'legal discourse' over the political. The
> > faction-ridden party and the
> > dominant factions within the party and constituents
> within
> > the LDF all put
> > more faith in judiciary, which is unprecedented
> considering
> > the genealogy of
> > Left rule not only in Kerala but WB as well.
> >
> >
> >
> > Consider the ADB issue, the party could not find a
> > resolution and the
> > internal bickering reached a zenith and the government
> led
> > by the CPI-M went
> > for a legal resolution. A PIL was filed in the high
> court
> > buy an
> > organization whose members were expelled from party
> ranks.
> > The petition
> > filed was on terms and conditions of the ADB loan and
> > whether the State
> > government can go for it. The government waited for a
> > result. We need not
> > recall the drama of that period. When the case was
> pending
> > in the court, the
> > 'debate' within the party on availing of ADB
> loan
> > continued. Also it should
> > be seen that CPIM general secretary Prakash Karat
> briefed
> > the media on ADB
> > issue as only a governance issue highlighting the
> > procedural lapses like
> > whether it has to go through CM' office etc. The
> real
> > political issue was
> > relegated to the back ground.
> >
> >
> >
> > On SNC Lavalin issue, the CM openly said in a press
> > briefing said he has a
> > different view but the cabinet decision was to entrust
> the
> > investigation
> > with the State vigilance. Again the Court entered the
> > scene. The final
> > resolution, which did upset the then official
> leadership,
> > was to handover
> > the case to CBI. The sheer lack of political
> > 'consensus' within the party
> > again led the judiciary to overwhelm over the
> > 'confusions' of the political
> > executive.
> >
> >
> >
> > Come Munnar, an operation started as a spectacle (Pls
> do
> > read CS
> > Venkitsewaran's write-up "justice as
> > spectacle") and which received massive
> > support really startled the judiciary. The media
> mission
> > that started
> > slightly earlier than the Munnar mission described
> about a
> > sea-change in
> > political determination of the VS led government. In
> the
> > first phase, the
> > court refused to give stay orders on eviction and
> > subsequent demolition of
> > illegal constructions. After this phase the debates
> bended
> > to the legal
> > angle relating to property rights. A political
> discourse
> > and an act, which
> > also resonated the ecological concerns moved to the
> realm
> > of judiciary. The
> > rest has become a distant past. Now it is absolutely
> in the
> > domain of
> > juridicio-legal establishment.
> >
> >
> >
> > Same also happened in the case of Kochi Cyber City.
> The
> > very recent issue
> > unraveling before us of a predictable outcome is the
> > "Golf Club". Ministers
> > revel in legal wrangling. As I see TV news, CPI
> minister
> > says, it's a
> > dispute between two secretaries. After this there is
> > breaking news showing
> > CPI state secretary criticizing the office of AG. Yet
> again
> > the judicial
> > resolution becomes the way ahead instead of political
> > solutions. Have the
> > Left forgot about its own political mandate. I am not
> sure.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > But what I am sure about is the Left in governance
> during
> > neo-liberal times
> > is in a quandary. They have no clear guidelines.
> Different
> > kinds of
> > approaches loom large in the party. (Ranges of opinion
> and
> > differences are
> > actually good. But they are not small time political
> > agendas. It has to be
> > guided by a vision). Except one or two persons, the
> party
> > leadership has
> > miserably failed to intellectually understand and
> engage
> > with the times. (
> > The trade union though outdated in many respects has
> still
> > a leadership
> > which tries to understand in Marxist terms what is
> > happening in the country
> > and also globally, but it has been sidelined for long
> by
> > the two dominant
> > factions) Though some ministers strongly attack the
> > bureaucracy and civil
> > service in general, unlike the past Left rule, the
> > governmental executive
> > has taken the Left ministers under its giant wings.
> They
> > find their little
> > shelter under it. When the political excutive fails to
> > envision and
> > implement, in the present consitutional structure,
> > judiciary comes to the
> > centre stage as the great 'arbitrator' and
> > 'dispute settler'.
> >
> > The retreat of the political of the "actually
> existing
> > left" is something we
> > need not mourn. It is the price the mainstream Left is
> > paying for hobnobbing
> > with the capital interests in the name of development.
> >
> >
> > Now come to defenders of the party who predominantly
> are
> > literary critics
> > and film reviewers. They presume by admonishing any
> > criticism of the party
> > and its governance measures, they are defending and
> saving
> > the party. But
> > failing to listen and engage with criticism, they have
> made
> > it a torpid
> > structure. They have created'paranoia' like
> > situation and any criticism is
> > dealt with 'heavy-handedness' particular as
> they
> > the left is in power. This
> > persecution mania created and transferred to the
> structure
> > itself become an
> > issue which in long-view is detrimental electorally
> and
> > organizationally to
> > the Left. In effect this set back of the political has
> > lumpenized the
> > mainstream Left completely. Thanks to the party
> appointed
> > as well as
> > self-styled defenders.
> >
> > damodar prasad
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
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