[Reader-list] Nandigram: Only peace is future....

[radhikarajen at vsnl.net]

Dear all.,

      When it was talked about "scientific rigging" by any one the role model that was evident to the society was that of thirty years of rule of the left parties in the nation in one state. All thinking minds started wondering how it was possible to rig "scientifically." 

 The answer is simple, organise each and every section of the society into unions, mercilessly curb all dissent, stick is always kept ready to use against any individual who even questions the top leaders, as comrade leaders live like parasytes on the subscription of the union members or ordinary comrades, any dissent about any issue is to be curtailed, nay, has to be nipped in the bud. Then  what do you have ? You have your own police, unionised, your own babus, totally unionised at various levels of grades , your own unions in every walk of life. If any small group which gathers enough courage even to think of changing their comrade leader in any of these unions, in democratic process of annual election, all that you, as comrade politburo leader has to do is ask the cadre to silence the dissent. Voting under fear with apparent joy for the party is mockery of democracy, that is cientific rigging for you. 
    The party has thus become a closely held company of politburo and ordinary members or comrades are slaves, bonded labour of the party under the leadership of gun wielding goon cadres, what is there to talk of democracy in the state of west bengal. ?

    Regards,

    radhikarajen at vsnl.net
----- Original Message -----
From: Tapas Ray <tapasrayx at gmail.com>
Date: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 3:13 am
Subject: Re: [Reader-list] Nandigram: Only peace is future....
To: reader-list at sarai.net

> Actually it's a chapter West Bengal has been reading for many 
> years now. 
> (Some people may have missed it, but that is all right.)
> 
> This chapter is about a clear erosion in the ruling party's 
> credibility 
> - which was high at one time, even with many who were not 
> necessarily 
> its supporters - and a corresponding increase in its tendency to 
> shed 
> all democratic niceties and use open violence to keep populations 
> and 
> institutions under control. In other words, in a way the 
> "liberation" of 
> Nandigram is a sign of the ruling party's desperation.
> 
> Winning control at any cost may be in keeping with Leninist and/or 
> Stalinist principles - the party's spokespersons can enlighten the 
> list 
> on that - but certainly not in keeping with the norms of democracy 
> as it 
> is commonly understood.
> 
> West Bengal does indeed need a new chapter, and events like 
> Nandigram 
> and Singur point to the fact that the people are writing it, but 
> not in 
> the way the quoted text suggests.
> 
> Tapas
> 
> 
> prakash ray wrote:
> 
> > People from all over are saluting you. Red salute to the people of
> > Nandigram. Your sacrifice, your struggle, your victory have 
> created a new
> > chapter in the glorious history of the left democratic struggle.
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