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I, too, agree with Mr Rao's formulation. The class character of present movement is completely middle class and reactionary in nature. It is actually not even a 'movement' because it is actually supported by the state, which itself is keen to destroy parliament and other institutions that are at least nominally answerable to people. The state wants to hand over the economy to corporates and the social sector to NGOs and unelected so-called civil society groups. This tendency, I must say, has also pervaded the communist parties, in which the Sahmats and KSSPs today have more say than the trade unions and kisan sabhas. Anna Hazare's movement mainly comprises upper caste urban people, who know they stand no chance in a vibrant parliamentary democracy, where more and more MLAs and MPs are today coming from rural areas and lower castes. Till recently, this savarna urban caste segment had an exit option - to go to the US. Today, that window is closing. By belittling politicians and parliament with the active support of the media, this movement is basically seeking to roll back the parliamentary democratic process. I will not be surprised if the likes of CIA and many of our own corporates are funding it, just as I believe KSSP and Co. receive European money. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: [email protected] To: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] CC: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: RE: This is a right wing coup? Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 14:11:16 +0530 I completely agree with Ashok Rao and would like to add some points: RSS ideologue KN Govindacharya shared a platform with Hazare during the first public meeting of "Team Hazare" on February 27, 2011. Curiously, Govindacharya dropped out of all subsequent public meetings. He had also helped organise Ramdev's fast. Former IB chief Ajit Doval, who is considered to be very close to the Parivar and particulaly Advani, and Govindacharya along with various Sangh Parivar bigwigs had organised a two-day seminar at Doval's Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) on April 1 and 2 on corruption. Arvind Kejriwal and Kiran Bedi attended the seminar along with Sangh Parivar ideologues. Regards Rajesh ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 12:29:30 +0530 Subject: Re: This is a right wing coup? From: [email protected] To: [email protected] CC: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] I do not go with any NGO totally; and yet I listen to their voices and demands. If they are serious and match with my views, I take them along and make them part of mine mine in my struggle. I believe that this forms the essence of the Marxist-Leninist tactics operating within the class confines of the bourgeois system. I fight against KSSP on the same ideological plane. So also the Vandana Shiva's and alike. So too the NGO's operating surreptitiously within even the Left. ADD On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Kuttappan Vijayachandran <[email protected]> wrote: Ashok: I fully share your views, perceptions and apprehensions. K Vijayachandran On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 5:09 AM, Ashok Rao <[email protected]> wrote: This is a right wing coup? It is an interesting coincidence that while in Washington the World Bank's President Mr. Robert Zoellickan, evangelist for free trade and a member of the neoconservative vanguard, was launching an International Corruption Hunters Alliance (ICHA) to "draw strength, learn from one another and create their global alliance" in India the media owned by the beneficiaries of neo liberalism was launching a "civil society" crusade against corruption. The term "civil society' itself is an integral part of the neo con lexicon. Is not the Parliament civil society? Are you and I not civil society?"Civil Society" if for the neo cons that part of society that capital can create supported by corporate media. Campaigns launched by foreign funded NGOs are civil society. The struggles of the tribal people, of the workers or ordinary people are not part of the "Civil Society". When was the last time you saw a trade union, a tribal leader or a dalit leader on the television debate? They are debarred since they are not the civil society. World Bank President's concern was that "stealing is bad enough, ripping off the poor is disgusting" the civil society's concern was the lack of an ombudsman who would reign in corruption with a magic wand. It is not surprising that even as the "civil Society" begins its August 2011 offensive, the United States Government decides to interfere in a purely internal matter, while Ford Foundation (known for its links with CIA) pumps in through its NGO named Kabir more than two hundred thousand dollars. The architecture of legislation in every vital sector of the economy -electricity, telecom, civil aviation etc. dictated by the World Bank and neo cons - is the same. Create a regulator who would control the sector and be independent both the executive and the legislature. Each of these sectors there are having thousands of millions of public money, consumers and employees but neither the executive nor the legislature should be in command. In the last decade we have witnessed regulatory capture by the corporates and the multinationals. The 2 G scam itself is a product of such a capture. What does the architecture of the civil society Lokpal Bill. Create a super regulator who would oversee the executive, legislature and the judiciary. So from the Prime Minister to the clerk, from the Chief Justice to the Magistrate, from the Member Parliament to the Member of the Legislative Assembly everyone would be covered by an authority that is not elected by the people and is accountable to no one. Anyone who can regulate this regulator in effect regulated the nation. The sheer arrogance to claim that the "civil society"represents more than a billion Indians, more human beings than dozens of nations put together is staggering. The "Civil Society" in this case has made no bones about the fact that they do not have any respect for the Parliamentary process. The argument is that the Constitution mandated exclusive powers the Parliamentarians to make legislation should be bypassed since there is disconnect between the people and those they stood in line and voted for them to make law. What would terminate the indefinite fast? -An assurance that Parliament would approve the "Civil Society" bill, and if that condition is not met hold a referendum since we say so. In other words just junk the Constitution of India. Corruption is not only the misdemeanour of individual, but also the product of policies that encourage and ensure gross inequities. If the head of Medical Council of India and the All India Council of Technical Education, that regulate medical and technical education (including management studies) are in Jail in the company of the head of teacher's education comparing notes on who could make more money, is it because this bunch of officials, compared to their predecessors, were real venal men wrongly chosen or because of the exponential commodification of education advocated by the World Bank? Why is it that there has been an exponential growth of corruption in every sector since the time of the introduction of the new economic paradigm based on the conditionalities of the Structural Adjustment Loan following the signing of the Instruments of surrender in 1991 by Shri Man Mohan Singh the then Finance Minister? Is privatisation, a mechanism of transferring public assets into private assets, in itself an act of corruption, or does it becomes an act of corruption if besides corporates, by breaching some procedures, even an individual has pecuniary share in the proceeds? Nobel Laureate and former Chief Economic Adviser of the World Bank Joseph Stiglitz asserted that privatization in the Third World was nothing but'briberization' In the context of Russia he said"There was too much emphasis on macroeconomic stabilisation at the expense of institution-building. Privatisation was pushed too far too fast, and, without the right regulatory framework, was bound to fail. The result was a country riddled with cronyism and corruption." Under the Lokpal and the current crusade against corruption, privatisation and neo liberal policies are policy. If public assets are transferred to private hands and private monopolies replace public monopolies, that is policy leading to economic growth. Corruption arises if individuals dip their hands in the till. In other word, their concern is transaction costs and not what Stiglitz called 'briberization'. It is not surprising either that the neo cons do not hesitate to dump the Mubaraks and the Manmohan Singhs once their use if over. The current economic crisis in the US and Europe dictate the need for "Colonies without physical occupation" There will be many more such right wing "Civil Society" offensives until every value and institution build as a consequence of the freedom struggle is undermined. This phenomenon has to be fought politically. Unfortunately, a worthless Government using a largely colonial criminal jurisprudence has played into the hands of this offensive and created a situation where in the minds of the unsuspecting public it's a simple a political crusade against a corrupt government. In the absence of a working class movement, between a guilty government and a presumptuous"civil society" Indian politics is slowly and steadily moving towards the Latin America style of politics - where a minuscule percentage of the population control everything from politics to every sector of the economy, sustained by internal repression. K. Ashok Rao President, National Confederation of Officers' Associations (NCOA) [email protected] -- K Vijayachandran Cell phone:91-9447174015 Partner and Chief Consultant, Industries Research and Services www.industries-research.co.in -- A.D. Damodaran PhD (Leeds) Former Director, National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, Govt. 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