2010/10/1 Vivek Varghese Cherian <[email protected]>: > >> Democratic centralism was restricted to the party. > > > How can democracy be _restricted_ internally_ to a party ? >
The basic idea of democratic centralism is to discuss and arrive at decisions democratically from the lower levels to the higher levels of organisation. In the cold war situation, many of the decisions would be initiated at much higher levels of organisation. > >> In India, there is no real democracy. It is a complete plutocracy with >> most parties and the media being controlled by the investment of the >> corporate sector. In fact democracy cannot be sustained to any >> reasonable extent under plutocratic (read modern capitalist) regimes. > > > Please prove rationally from neutral sources that India is a plutocracy. > You seem to be making statements without backing them up with facts. Obviously this and more is off topic. Start from the actual distribution of wealth and income in India. According to official Central Govt reports over 78% of the people earn less than Rs 20 a day. The games on the poverty line is well known. On the corporate-politics-press nexus, we have plenty of reports. See Sainath's very recent articles and talk on the media ... though it has always been known. > Please backup your above statements with facts from neutral sources. This idea of 'neutral' is the creation of right-wing media apparently. > > My sources of reference of my original response to Mr Anil is based > on the following URLS > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Revolution_(1917) > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolshevik Wikipedia is never neutral on politics and is never reliable on the subject. On philosophy it is often sloppy. Their policies are problematic A more reliable way of studying politics is through original biased sources. You will find a small amount of material (plenty of Trotskyist stuff) at www.marxists.org A better discussion list would be the ones at univ of utah or the yahoo group - pragoti foil is another list with more of the anarchist kinds of Left. What we can discuss on this list is the 'neutrality' and reliability of the information in the wikipedia Best A. Mani -- A. Mani ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc _______________________________________________ Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org #[email protected]
