[Reader-list] Kashmiri-intifada

[Pheeta Ram]

Inder bhai! Zyada zor lagaane ki zaroorat nahin! Hum sehmat hain!
"Azadi in Kashmir needs a broader conceptual frame to sustain the
dialogue of Freedom.."



On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 8:23 PM, Inder Salim <indersalim at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks dear A Mani
>
> It is always very wonderful to read a new perspective concerning K Issue.
> which in fact is extending  K boarder and beyond.... Here the term
> like Marxist might open new vistas of different terminology to connect
> itself with others to bridge the growing new robust youth who are
> already looking different with new avenues to express change of status
> quo. Thereby softening the crest of the terms .... It is JP Sartre
> warns about how we owe our expression to the sumptuousness of terms
> and phrases and terms. so,....
>
> It is really heartening that POK has a visible base of such a wave
> which can sabotage  the USA deep state politics in our region. The US
> aversion of terms like communist has a history of its own which has
> created right wing demon, and it looks it is a matter of time before
> these demons realize the benefits of new understanding the universal (
> change )  rather than remain confined to religious bigotry and
> fantasy, which only provides an alibi to US and allies to strike at
> will, and keep us fighting each other. Time should come soon when we
> refuse to buy their arms to kill our people..
>
>
> The are many terms in vogue at the moment in Kashmir which can
> radically change to more universal terms like Pro-Freedom Movement,
> People for Change, Boarder Riders etc. which can attract more and more
> free minds from both sides of the boarder and beyond.
>
> the change is inevitable, may be it is too soon to see a big wave
> picking up the entire region. I am optimistic,
>
> with love
>
> is
>
> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 4:46 PM, A. Mani <a.mani.cms at gmail.com> wrote:
> > See http://www.marxist.com/kashmiri-intifada.htm
> >
> >
> > The site is of course completely Trotskyist, but the article should be
> > of some interest.
> >
> > Excerpt
> > "Time and again the masses of Kashmir, and specially the youth, have
> > been crushed by state repression but the movement keeps on erupting.
> > However, the present movement is in the hands of a different and a new
> > generation (which was raised in the violent period) and instead of
> > emotional slogans and metaphysical ideologies it is based on the firm
> > realities of deprivation with clear economic and social demands. The
> > rulers of India cannot therefore label it as being sponsored by
> > Pakistan or Islamic fundamentalism.
> > .........
> >
> > The character of the movement shows that there is growing
> > radicalisation in Kashmiri society and particularly among the youth,
> > and the distrust in religious and so called nationalist parties is
> > proof that this radicalisation is clearly going towards the left. The
> > CPI(M) which has some basis in Kashmir if not vast support, but it
> > needs to provide a clear programme of revolutionary socialism that
> > would inevitably connect with the aspirations of this movement and
> > transform the whole dimension of the conflict in Kashmir on both sides
> > of the ‘line of control’. If the central leadership of CPI(M) instead
> > of following the policy of bourgeois Indian nationalism and the
> > so-called “national democratic revolution” based on the two-stage
> > theory, were to adopt a clear Leninist class policy on the national
> > question by providing solutions to all the problems, including that of
> > national liberation, linked to a socialist revolution and unite the
> > struggle in Kashmir with the class struggle of the Indian proletariat,
> > the state would face a formidable challenge that it would not be able
> > to confront and would be forced to withdraw its armed forces and end
> > these brutalities. Such a victory would open up the floodgates of a
> > revolutionary upheaval throughout the South Asian subcontinent. The
> > compromising policies of the left parties’ central leadership have
> > crippled the CPIM in Kashmir and it has thus failed to gain the
> > support among the youth which it could easily have won.
> >
> > ..............
> >
> > This will also have a revolutionary impact in Pakistani Occupied
> > Kashmir where the Marxist forces are already growing and gaining
> > popular support. The JKNSF has gained a mass basis amongst the youth
> > on a revolutionary programme and with the slogan, “Freedom is our aim,
> > Socialism is our destiny”.
> >
> >
> > However, a socialist revolution in Kashmir cannot remain confined to
> > its borders; in fact it is very difficult to carry out a socialist
> > revolution within Kashmir alone without the class solidarity and
> > active participation of the working masses of Pakistan and India and
> > even if a revolution were to be victorious it could not be sustained
> > for long the capitalist imperialist states of India and Pakistan
> > remain intact. But the situation is changing not only in Kashmir;
> > there are new revolutionary storms that impend across the horizon,
> > across the whole of the subcontinent. The conditions for social
> > upheaval and militant class struggle are being created everywhere."
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Best
> >
> > A. Mani
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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