CPM bleeds Nandigram red
The story of Nandigram is something like this. Our left-liberal government of Bengal tried to act Dalaal (broker) for capitalists by getting them cheap land by dispossessing farmers. They have lately been impressed with private enterprise, SEZs etc., for Bengal while being highly critical of these elsewhere.
There was local reaction in the countryside, something Mamata Bannerjee had long been waiting for. She blessed the reaction -- and rightly so -- and BUPC was formed as the first direct challenge to CPI(M) entrenchment -- goondagardi being a better word -- after many years at the local level. After months of tension, the collective ego of the dictatorship-in-the-name-of-the-proletariot was suitably hurt to plan a massacre. Thousands of partymen with guns were sent in. They barricaded Nandigram, allowing neither social activists nor the media to get in. Since the state police is generally a stooge of the state government, they obediently stayed out. So with the blessings of the state, the party shut out both the state and civil society for painting the area red. They killed, raped, maimed at will and successfully recaptured the lost Communist utopia. The CRPF is now in to maintain the status quo.
Lord Buddha from the City of Joy is "smarter" than Modi. Remember, it's not for nothing that Communists are intellectuals and Sanghis fools. Firstly, Buddha did not allow the media to get incriminating photographs of people begging for life, like Modi had allowed. Secondly, while Modi ordered the police to stand still while people were killed, Buddha declared them (the police) out-of-bounds till "people's democracy" was re-established after bloodshed.
A rare feat in the history of democracy has been accomplshed. Buddha Babu ko Lal Salaam!
And our intellectuals -- a section of the social elite who regularly shed tears on poverty to obfuscate the reality of their privileged class position in a disparate sociey -- are now running away from the CPM to guard their moral capital earned through years of hypocrisy. Here I do not mean Sumit Sarkar, who has displayed consistent honesty for the past several months.
There was local reaction in the countryside, something Mamata Bannerjee had long been waiting for. She blessed the reaction -- and rightly so -- and BUPC was formed as the first direct challenge to CPI(M) entrenchment -- goondagardi being a better word -- after many years at the local level. After months of tension, the collective ego of the dictatorship-in-the-name-of-the-proletariot was suitably hurt to plan a massacre. Thousands of partymen with guns were sent in. They barricaded Nandigram, allowing neither social activists nor the media to get in. Since the state police is generally a stooge of the state government, they obediently stayed out. So with the blessings of the state, the party shut out both the state and civil society for painting the area red. They killed, raped, maimed at will and successfully recaptured the lost Communist utopia. The CRPF is now in to maintain the status quo.
Lord Buddha from the City of Joy is "smarter" than Modi. Remember, it's not for nothing that Communists are intellectuals and Sanghis fools. Firstly, Buddha did not allow the media to get incriminating photographs of people begging for life, like Modi had allowed. Secondly, while Modi ordered the police to stand still while people were killed, Buddha declared them (the police) out-of-bounds till "people's democracy" was re-established after bloodshed.
A rare feat in the history of democracy has been accomplshed. Buddha Babu ko Lal Salaam!
And our intellectuals -- a section of the social elite who regularly shed tears on poverty to obfuscate the reality of their privileged class position in a disparate sociey -- are now running away from the CPM to guard their moral capital earned through years of hypocrisy. Here I do not mean Sumit Sarkar, who has displayed consistent honesty for the past several months.
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