Hi, Many of you must have read Indraneel Dasgupta's epw article "on Some Left critiques of the Left". It seems some are higlighting as if this paper has something revelator!!! Oye!!! We should be asking the otherway: is there anything new in this article? It is a representation of the neo-orthodoxy so popular amongst instituional economists. Its neo-orthodoxy in the sense it is unwilling to carry the baggage of the Rightwing but wants itself to get close to mainstream Left. Actually this is the neo-classical neo-populism accepted at large by the policy making bodies and international instituions like WB, IMF etc.
In Kerala, it may not be so popular in the popular media because it mostly clings to left sentimentalism (the romanticism of worst kind!!). Economists like Dr.Santakumar of CDS has been advocating this perspective for so long openly stating this ideology as neo-liberal. However they did articulate such ideas with a sense of democracy unilke the cantakerous ones now associating with the left who are like leeches cluthcing to movements and parties in transition for absolutely self-sake agenda. Nirupam Sen himself in a post-election interview has clearly said why the WB wanted to pursue agressive industrialkization and what price they have to give for such deeds. Basically, what can be inferred from the interveiw is the question of democracy and development. It is not like the conservative opposition to industrialization and private capital but how the Left should pursue a model different from say a Modi like development administrator. How the issue of disposession and accumulation via disposession has to be treated? We are discussing all this in the contexct of Global finance crisis and also politico-administrative crisis that we are witnessing at LALGARH... Indarneel Banerjee' " one-liner" on the issue of disposession is interesting: ".. the answer would lie in sustained, determined, intelligent politico- adminstrative measures to mobilize the beneficiaries and neutralize the losers".. What an important political advise to Left in times of crises of neoliberalism!!!. d.prasad, --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
