Shantam, paapam! However this Jiju P Alex is, he is committing blasphemy. He is daming the advice of Great Leaders. Please!
(1) the author's implicit demand, that social activists should be necessarily landless and preferably near-starvation was, alas, long rejected by the CPM. I quote their late God, EMS:As far as comrades from the landowning and capitalist classes are concerned, it may be better that they work to create a group within their class who will work for the country's economic planning and to improve the people's standards of living, and to devote their wealth and labour in ways that enhance national pride, rather than sell their assets and hand over the sum received to the party." (quoted from 'Acchadakkattode Pravarttikkuka' (Act with Discipline), in P. Govinda Pillai (ed.), *EMS Sampoorna Kritikal* [Collected Works of EMS] vol.5, 1944-45, Thiruvananthapuram: Chinta Publishers, pp. 234-54). Likewise all the activists of the Chengara land struggle who are much poorer landlords compared to what EMS was, will devote themselves to enhancing the economic development activities of the poor. Bretheren! Be wary of false prophets like Jiju P Alex who seek to mislead you away from the Word of God! (2) The author's professorial status may have exempted him from gaining education about precise definitions of terms like 'NGOs', upon which the RAW certainly keeps a close watch. He seems to have no clue on where and how funding flows, especially from sources like the ford foundation. And please note: "WB activists"are bad but WB money is not. We need it to keep our panchayats going. This professor lives in an insulated world where everything is artificially kept alive by the CPM power plant. Hence he thinks that people outside this charmed world will swallow the difference. I don't know of mulitlateral agencies interested in land struggles but they are certainly interested in intervening in governance -- which the CPM and the IAS officers in this state are interested. The CPM-led State thinks that it can use WB money without compromising the interests of the people. People inChengara, please take note: if you receive any multilateral funding, you are to use it strictly like our government; in the interest of the 'people', that is. We must follow our enlightened state in all respects. (3) Some groups, according to our professor, wish to spread canards about the LDF throughout the world. His intentions are of course beyond doubt: he is only speaking the truth. And what is truth? He hints at the end -- 'nandigram' was a lie; therefore we may infer what that truth is - the denial of nandigram. I am part of a generation of SFI students in Delhi who were told by our respected leaders that Tienanmen was a lie spread by the bourgeois media. Thank you very much, professor, but we don't need your asertions of truth! Devika --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
