The author while highlighting the land grab, which must be highlighted, will like us all to forget that the CPI(Maoist) is engaged in a “people’s war” or full scale guerrilla warfare against the Indian state in order to overrun it. That’s its declared aim, and no less. It has even deprecated the Maoists in Nepal for giving up guerrilla war to join electoral democratic politics in order achieve their broader aims. The Indian state’s armed and unarmed responses are not exclusively shaped by its urge for land grab but also by the armed war launched against it.
Quote This democracy here is no longer opposed to repression or say state violence – indeed it might be foolish to think of opposing the latter from the standpoint of ‘democracy’. This is the insight which correctly informs the Maoist movement for example. For democracy here is an idiom of rule, precisely that through which repression and violence is refracted – democracy in the service of the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, democracy as a form of dictatorship, as Lenin used to say. Hence the best way to reinforce this dictatorship, facilitate corporate land grab is to ‘promote democracy’ or ‘strengthen our democratic traditions’. If the effect of releasing Binayak Sen and defending democracy is to increase India’s ‘soft power’ and tighten its brand packaging then surely one needs to think if democracy here is not at the service of bourgeois dictatorship. Unquote Evidently Giri would have had been on a much stronger wicket to establish “democracy” is “dictatorship”, albeit “bourgeois dictatorship”, had the Supreme Court rejected Binayak’s bail plea. The whole piece appears to have been triggered by his profound uneasiness with the Supreme Court order. He is too comfortable with “democracy” as “dictatorship”. Anything to the contrary is too unsettling from his point of view. (Long live naked (one-party) dictatorships marked by show trials, gulags and firing squads! Down with (multi-party) democracy as this is dictatorship!) With the release of Binayak the cause of other prisoners kept in jail on flimsy grounds must now be raised with all the vigours that it deserves. India must not be allowed to turn into a hellish gulag, criminalising dissent, for a significant number of its citizens. Sukla On 21 April 2011 17:29, Venugopalan K M <[email protected]> wrote: > > http://kafila.org/2011/04/20/chronicle-of-a-bail-foretold-saroj-giri/ > > > > -- > > > You cannot build anything on the foundations of caste. You cannot build up > a nation, you cannot build up a morality. Anything that you will build on > the foundations of caste will crack and will never be a whole. > -AMBEDKAR > > > > http://venukm.blogspot.com > > http://www.shelfari.com/kmvenuannur > > http://kmvenuannur.livejournal.com > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Green Youth Movement" group. > To post to this group, send an 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. > -- Peace Is Doable -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send an 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.
