[Reader-list] Maoists violence

[Kshmendra Kaul]

What is Maoism?
 
>From Wikipedia (1) : 
""""""Maoism, ......... is a variant of Marxism derived from the teachings of the late Chinese leader Mao Zedong""""""  
 
The Maoists would seem to be more connected to Marxists and Communists. Makes suspicious P K Ray's claim of "common knowledge" that  " that many leaders from the Congress, the BJP, the TMC and the JMM are providing shelter and support to the Maoists for their own political and criminal advantages." 
 
>From Wikipedia (2):
""""The basic tenets of Maoism include revolutionary struggle of the vast majority of people against what they term the exploiting classes and their state structures, termed a People's War. """""
 
That again would seem to be what the Communists of India should be doing. PK Ray seems to suggest that the Maoists are dumb idiots who have sold their ideological souls to "Congress, the BJP, the TMC and the JMM"   
 
>From Wikipedia (3):
""""" Usually involving peasants, its military strategies have involved guerrilla war tactics focused on surrounding the cities from the countryside, with a heavy emphasis on political transformation through the mass involvement of the basic people of the society. Maoism departs from conventional European-inspired Marxism in that its focus is on the agrarian countryside, rather than the industrial urban forces.""""
 
Ahhhhh! Now it makes sense as to why the Communits are badmouthing the Maoists instead of embracing them as soulmates subscribing to a somewhat common ideology.
 
The Communists in India, by and large, confined their activities around the 'workers' in the Organised Industries Sector. That addressed a tiny number from the total of the "workers" in India suffering exploitation who predominantly were in the Agricultural and other Rural Sectors.
 
Political activism like Maoism (Naxalism) tried to attend to the sufferings of the "workers" in the Agricultural and other Rural Sectors. 
 
These are the "workers" who have been 'ignored by the Communists'. Powerful Political Space that did not interest the Communists and which they have lost out on although the Communist should have been the ones most active in it. No wonder the Communists whine.
 
 
Kshmendra


--- On Thu, 4/30/09, prakash ray <pkray11 at gmail.com> wrote:

From: prakash ray <pkray11 at gmail.com>
Subject: [Reader-list] Maoists violence
To: reader-list at sarai.net
Date: Thursday, April 30, 2009, 10:09 AM

Dear all,

After many mindless violent attacks in Jharkhand, Bihar, Chhatisgarh and
Andhra Pradesh during the first two legs of the general Elections, the
Maoist terror is targetting the election process in West Bengal. Within one
hour, they have attacked more than a half dozen places.

These attacks have once again exposed the ideological and political
bankruptcy of the Maoist terror. The time has come to take a firm ressolve
to fight these goons. However, it is a matter of commom knowledge that many
leaders from the Congress, the BJP, the TMC and the JMM are providing
shelter and support to the Maoists for their own political and criminal
advantages.

One can only hope that the next government at the centre with the state
authorities will do something to end this menace.

PKR
_________________________________________
reader-list: an open discussion list on media and the city.
Critiques & Collaborations
To subscribe: send an email to reader-list-request at sarai.net with subscribe in
the subject header.
To unsubscribe: https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/reader-list 
List archive: &lt;https://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/>