The Left turns Right
From surrendering its economic agenda to Tata and Salem Group, the Indian Left has now decide to openly embrace radical Islam.
The Indian Left had begun its rightward shift in terms of what Marxists once called the economic base -- human history being a product of the dialectics of material forces -- with Singur and Nandigram. Communist China had anyway shown dialectical materialism the dustbin long ago.
But now the superstructure in classical Marxist theory -- meaning the non-economic realm of culture, politics, ideas and religion that are supposedly dependent on the economy -- has also been contaminated. Naturally, when the base has collapsed, the superstructure will automatically cave in.
Two days back, our Left leaders like D. Raja, Atul Kumar Anjan and Sitaram Yechuri reportedly shared the dais with a group of 50 anti-Batla House encounter Muslim organisations looking for a non-Congress, non-BJP alternative. Among these was Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, an organisation that believes in establishing in India a society based on Islam. It was the brainchild of Maulana Maududi, the founder of Jamat-e-Islami Pakistan.
So, now our scientific-socialist clowns are flirting with radical Islam. They have effectively become the counter-part of Bajrang Dal and VHP -- who believe in Hindu Rashtra, though this is a rather un-defined concept. The BJP still looks at politics through the 'secular-pseudo-secular' discourse and is not really a Hindu Rashtra votary.
But this is not the first sectarian slippage of the Indian Left. Powerful sections of the CPI supported both the Pakistan demand and the demand for a Sikh homeland in the 1940s. The CPM allied with the Muslim League in the 1967 elections in Tamil Nadu. AISA in Delhi is more interested in waving flags in Jamia after the Batla House encounter than in seeing which workers are being retrenched by capitalists.
Interestingly, not a single Communist was seen saying or doing anything about workers fired by the Italian company whose CEO was murdered in NOIDA recently or protesting against Jet Airways' threat to fire 1900 employees recently. It was left to the goon Raj Thackerey to speak for these workers on the idiot box -- one can now understand how his estranged uncle Bal Thackerey could wipe out communists so easily from Mumbai some decades back.
The only concern of the Left today seems to be Indian Islam and its representation. Had Mahatma Gandhi taken this concern one could have understood it. But the fact that this concern has become the primary one for the self-proclaimed radical lilliputs of Marx can only leave one surprised.
The Indian Left had begun its rightward shift in terms of what Marxists once called the economic base -- human history being a product of the dialectics of material forces -- with Singur and Nandigram. Communist China had anyway shown dialectical materialism the dustbin long ago.
But now the superstructure in classical Marxist theory -- meaning the non-economic realm of culture, politics, ideas and religion that are supposedly dependent on the economy -- has also been contaminated. Naturally, when the base has collapsed, the superstructure will automatically cave in.
Two days back, our Left leaders like D. Raja, Atul Kumar Anjan and Sitaram Yechuri reportedly shared the dais with a group of 50 anti-Batla House encounter Muslim organisations looking for a non-Congress, non-BJP alternative. Among these was Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, an organisation that believes in establishing in India a society based on Islam. It was the brainchild of Maulana Maududi, the founder of Jamat-e-Islami Pakistan.
So, now our scientific-socialist clowns are flirting with radical Islam. They have effectively become the counter-part of Bajrang Dal and VHP -- who believe in Hindu Rashtra, though this is a rather un-defined concept. The BJP still looks at politics through the 'secular-pseudo-secular' discourse and is not really a Hindu Rashtra votary.
But this is not the first sectarian slippage of the Indian Left. Powerful sections of the CPI supported both the Pakistan demand and the demand for a Sikh homeland in the 1940s. The CPM allied with the Muslim League in the 1967 elections in Tamil Nadu. AISA in Delhi is more interested in waving flags in Jamia after the Batla House encounter than in seeing which workers are being retrenched by capitalists.
Interestingly, not a single Communist was seen saying or doing anything about workers fired by the Italian company whose CEO was murdered in NOIDA recently or protesting against Jet Airways' threat to fire 1900 employees recently. It was left to the goon Raj Thackerey to speak for these workers on the idiot box -- one can now understand how his estranged uncle Bal Thackerey could wipe out communists so easily from Mumbai some decades back.
The only concern of the Left today seems to be Indian Islam and its representation. Had Mahatma Gandhi taken this concern one could have understood it. But the fact that this concern has become the primary one for the self-proclaimed radical lilliputs of Marx can only leave one surprised.
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