[Reader-list] After Nandigram

[Abhishek Hazra]

apologies for the mistake in the last post: it will be CPI(M) instead of CPM.


On Nov 14, 2007 8:17 PM, Abhishek Hazra <abhishek.hazra at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.signandsight.com/features/510.html
> was reading an interview with Daniel Cohn-Bendit reminiscing about Hannah Arendt
> there are some threads there which i thought might be pertinent to the
> ongoing discussion of communist / anti-/non communism and democracy
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> When did you begin to get interested in Hannah Arendt's work?
> In the 1970s, as the discussions about totalitarianism became more and
> more pressing. I was a leftist anti-communist and when I came to
> Germany in 1968, I was perplexed by the reluctance to compare
> communism with national socialism, which was rooted in German history.
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> and back in Calcutta, the author Sunil Ganguly has apparently done a
> televised declaration of his scanty knowledge of politics. "ami oto
> raajniti bujhi na" or something to that effect (this was after he was
> asked on his attendance at the government organized film festival at
> the Nandan film complex in Calcutta. such a lovely sound bite, alas!
> anyway, its quite heartening to see that at least there are some loyal
> "left" intellectuals who still believe in the progressive antics of
> the CPM.
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> On Nov 14, 2007 7:09 PM, Tapas Ray <tapasrayx at gmail.com> wrote:
> > It is difficult to imagine that the CPI(M), with a large following in
> > West Bengal, does not have members and supporters who possess a greater
> > ability for critical thinking and are less prone to substituting press
> > releases and the party line for rational discourse, than what has been
> > seen on this list so far. Leaving aside such events as Bantala (almost
> > forgotten), scams like treasury and waqf (again, almost forgotten), and
> > the general atmosphere of "Party control" over everything, the recent
> > events of Nandigram and Singur provide an opportunity for these sections
> > to consider the need for evolving a genuinely progressive democratic
> > politics. Only such an alternative can help the people survive the
> > present phase of development, marked by increasing insecurity due to
> > neoliberalism, the failure of the Left to present a credible challenge
> > to this, and its tendency to resort to fascistic methods in response to
> > this crisis. The alternative is an inevitable rise of communal and
> > extremist forces, as the state is experiencing today.
> >
> > Tapas
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