"..It may even be a case of ‘arrogance of ignorance’ which has today come to characterise the corporate-hijacked media, especially its TV anchors. But it certainly has the consequence of creating a climate of distrust and disapproval, hostility and opposition towards the revolutionary Left which alone is, now or in the future, capable of mounting an effective challenge to ruling class politics and its capitalist policies and offering our people an effective alternative politics and policies geared to a pro-people path of development. Particularly noticeable in this regard is the effort of the government and the media to use negative factors in the situation, some of them flowing from the Maoist’s own theory and practice, to de-legitimise not only the Maoist politics but all Naxalite or revolutionary politics as well. Most important here is the government’s focus on the issue of violence, which not only serves to discredit Maoist politics or delegitimise revolutionary politics in general, but invoking ‘nationalism’, ‘democracy’ etc., also helps mobilise popular support for the official politics and policies including its capitalist path of development. Already, for example, with help from the nationalistically hysterical media and its TV anchors, the notion of martyrdom stands denuded of whatever sanctity or hallowed associations it had during our freedom struggle; today every mercenary who gets killed in the government’s war on people is a martyr, another Bhagat Singh! The government wants the mercenaries to be lauded and glorified. It badly needs them and its neo-liberalism will need them even more badly in the future..".
http://sanhati.com/excerpted/3016/ -- 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.
