The country and the government running the country seem to have been caught up in a chaotic all-consuming whirlpool of inaction,intolerance,insolence and moral inebriation,and this does not seem to have any solution in the near future.
We have had a series of isolated battles over the last decade between security forces and self-proclaimed revolutionaries allegedly embracing the political model which Mao Tse Tung embraced once upon a time.The menace should have been crushed in its incipient stages by the barrel only before the Left Front and intellectual social observers started to romanticize and glorify the acts of these elements as a holy rebellion of the tribal population of central India against oppressive central governance.The issue became a political weapon before the country could tag it as acts of inhuman violence and proceed to stop it. The resultant inaction that spanned the policies of all the governments that have been in the parliament since has created a home-made frankenstein which has pushed half of the country into a virtual civil war.Sadly the government and the opposition have failed to come together to look upon the naxalite menace through a single political window,and the result is there to see.
These murderers have resorted to abductions,mass genocides,targeting especially the security forces and government establishments,keeping the tribal population in front.The day these terrorists killed 76 security-personnel in Dantewada,an Indian authoress(of course based in London) recently famed for her literary pursuits in English with a couple of paperbacks under her belt,sympathized with the murderers in a press-conference,a statement that seemed to find support from many other intellectuals who declared that this was armed rebellion by the oppressed tribal people,and thus cannot be dealt with blunt force by a democratic government.
Democracy besets Freedom.Indian democracy seems to have become an excuse to justify any sordid act under the sun.Of course there is freedom of thought,speech and expression.Indian democracy seems to have become an ideal socio-political shield behind which this freedom is a weapon for all sordid acts of crime under the tropical sun.An issue which should not take more than a week for the Indian army to smoke away to complete oblivion if given the chance,continues to lurk a potent threat against the Indian republic,just because politicians in the parliament fail to come to an unanimous decision of consensus,to identify it as a criminal conspiracy of abductions and murders,hatched by criminals.And it is not any valid and relevantly sane political ideology of intent that prevents an act of consensus in the political corridors of our democracy.It is all about money and power,of the vested interests of the mafiosi in the iron and coal belts in Bihar,Jharkhand,Orissa and West Bengal where regional politics continue to take the wind out of any government action of intent.
How should we look upon Mao Tse Tung,the revolutionary?If his portraits continue to adorn the walls of offices of Leftist political parties,then Prakash Karat and Sitaram Yechuri should be made accountable if they continue to define these criminal activities as armed struggle of the proletariate.Sadly in the last 15 years,not a single voice from the Left Front has condemned the Maoists as evil or vile,or tried to extract "Maoism" from the political agenda of these terrorists.Theoretically Left Parties are in support of these terrorists if they have failed to isolate these terrorists policies from their own which continue to look upon Mao as a political hero.
I am not very sure that now looking back upon China in the 50s and the 60s,the so called Cultural Revolution and its principal protagonists,can be honestly looked upon as establishment of democracy in a democratic way.Even if,for argument s sake,it bettered things in China,it is questionable how much improvement was palpable in the common man s life.Definitely a process that shouldn' t have been exemplified by Leftist parties in other countries.
How strong and correct the tenements of communist socialism really were? The answer can be found out in the Perestroika and the fall of communist regimes in Communist Europe,the dissolution of the USSR,and the circumstances that ultimately resulted in the fall of the Berlin Wall.And whether this socio-political change was historically correct finds its answer in the Chinese government's policy in dealing with student unrest in Tiananmen Square.
Communism,Marxist,Leninist or Maoist has failed to stand the test of time.China is highly communist anymore.But Indian Leftists continue to swear by Marx and Engels.Its contribution to Indian politics has been refusal to take part in the Freedom Struggle,creating labour unions who brought the concept of strikes and later Bandhs in Indian work culture,and failure to provide support to Indian democracy through historic blunders during constitutional crises in the last decade.And the Naxalites have become bolder and bolder.
If there is a Maoist insurgency tearing our country,would Mr.Karat and comrades disagree if the insurgency is "crushed" with Maoist armed violence?
