More on Buddhadeb
Many Left-leaning people are criticising Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee for his "right revisionism" in taking to the capitalist model of ecnomic development.
I do not personally mind Buddhadeb's acceptance of or deviation from his party line. That's a matter for the party to decide. If his "right revisionism" is against the popular mood, he'll lose a substantial chunk of the popular vote.
However, if he thought a chemical hub or a small car unit were good for the state, he should have allowed the private party to negotiate directly with the farmers and offer them a satisfactory price or forget it. He should not have acted as Dalaal: laissez faire has no conceptual place for the state as broker.
Another point is that he has chosen a heady cocktail of the capitalist model of economic development and the Communist commitment to state repression. This should -- unless he is dislodged -- lead to a society with wide disparity as well as zero freedom. In fact, he has chosen the worst of capitalism, i.e., inequality and socialism, i.e., lack of freedom.
Unless Communist activists are made to realise that freedom and democratic tolerance are vital for society and not "bourgeois", this systematic subversion of demcracy will go on. Hope Bengal is open to change at least to the extent of giving him a five-year break next time.
And yes, Modi had the disadvantage of being the Other of the Indian intellectual community. So Vajpayee had to at least declare that Gujarat 2002 was a tragedy. Here we have a party that has had most intellectuals at its beck and call ( for camouflaging their class interests, among other things). So Karat has confidently had the cheek to say that what the Red goons did was a perfect response.
I do not personally mind Buddhadeb's acceptance of or deviation from his party line. That's a matter for the party to decide. If his "right revisionism" is against the popular mood, he'll lose a substantial chunk of the popular vote.
However, if he thought a chemical hub or a small car unit were good for the state, he should have allowed the private party to negotiate directly with the farmers and offer them a satisfactory price or forget it. He should not have acted as Dalaal: laissez faire has no conceptual place for the state as broker.
Another point is that he has chosen a heady cocktail of the capitalist model of economic development and the Communist commitment to state repression. This should -- unless he is dislodged -- lead to a society with wide disparity as well as zero freedom. In fact, he has chosen the worst of capitalism, i.e., inequality and socialism, i.e., lack of freedom.
Unless Communist activists are made to realise that freedom and democratic tolerance are vital for society and not "bourgeois", this systematic subversion of demcracy will go on. Hope Bengal is open to change at least to the extent of giving him a five-year break next time.
And yes, Modi had the disadvantage of being the Other of the Indian intellectual community. So Vajpayee had to at least declare that Gujarat 2002 was a tragedy. Here we have a party that has had most intellectuals at its beck and call ( for camouflaging their class interests, among other things). So Karat has confidently had the cheek to say that what the Red goons did was a perfect response.
posted by vikaspathak at 9:20 PM
3 Comments:
hello vikas sir,good posts, but I wonder are you defending Modi or criticising Buddha?? :)
Isn't it obvious that our biases isolate from the humanity. I feel in all these incidents the citizens which include both you and me have been made to act as puppets as politics in India has taken the most shameless form. We perpetuate our state further by taking sides.
Anyway nice to see even The Hindu could retain the "fagwa" font color in you. :))
Tanmoy
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Hi Tanmoy,
No defence of Modi for criticising Buddhadeb is intended. Both are a threat to democracy. What I meant was that while Modi attacks like a village wrestler, Buddhadeb performs surgical operations with great precision.
Vikash Pathakji, yeh apko kiya ho gaya. Humlogo ko JNU mein Rhastravaad sikhate sikhate ap kab aese bhayankar secularist ban gaye. Apto Sangh se jure hui vidwat vyakti hai. Ap aise Modiji ke bare mein soch rakhenge to kaise chalega. A Sngha Activist met you in JNU.
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