[Reader-list] Fwd: Team Anna Successfully Blocked the People from Questioning the Fountainhead of Corruption..."Capital". A FACE BOOK NOTE by Sushantha Roy

[Lalit Ambardar]

What was one of the fundamental reasons for the fall of USSR-it was corruption that had seeped in to the 'party' as well as the administration & it was supposedly a 'capital' free economy.
One can understand the possible revulsion of the elite to the fact that common masses have begun to seek a dignified life,but so called 'social intelligentsia' coming together to  demonise anti corruption mass-movement is intriguing?
Rgds
LA
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------> Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2011 14:19:27 +0530
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> Subject: [Reader-list] Fwd: Team Anna Successfully Blocked the People from Questioning the Fountainhead of Corruption..."Capital". A FACE BOOK NOTE by Sushantha Roy
> 
> Team Anna Successfully Blocked the People from Questioning the Fountainhead
> of Corruption..."Capital".
> 
> 
> I have been thinking about this for days & cannot finally brush it off as
> idle speculation. The entire Anna movement seems to have been designed to
> mortally weaken the govt( as in the people's rule ) & pave the way for the
> gradual take overof governance & the nation by the pvt sector. The just
> public anger against corruption was hijacked by team Anna & the opportunity
> used to embed this in the people's mind. They derided the election process,
> insulted & accused all parties, which no honest man wd do, mocked the
> parliament process, claimed the legitimacy of the mob, nowhere close to the
> nos that constitute a majority & tried to claim victory of their methods
> over the democratic ones. The people want to rid the governance process &
> society of corruption & tyranny, not rid the process itself. Team Anna
> successfully blocked the people from questioning the fountainhead of
> corruption, the corporations, the pvt sector, "Capital".
> 
> 
> 
> Is it a oversight? I think impossible, considering that NGOs too are
> glaringly protected. Heap on that connections to the Sangh, Ford Foundation,
> etc & there emerges a pattern which cannot be dismissed as mere
> speculation." All Indian govts & parties( even the left is not spared) are
> corrupt & this needs to be destroyed for ever". How? Thru a Jan Lokpal bill.
> It is not accidental that this team wanted a bill which creates a 4th pillar
> which subsumes all the other 3 pillars, the executive, bureaucracy & the
> judiciary. A huge monolith, with lakhs of employees which has all possible
> powers over everybody else with power in our republic, from the smallest
> govt employee to the PM, the CMs, the chief justices!! Lets look back at
> modern history & see what this means. Such an organisation has always been
> set up by all powerful dictators after they have taken over a country. In
> this case we see an organisation being suggested to be set up which can
> bring in one?? Is this mere over-enthusiasm of the few most honest souls of
> the times?? I think not.
> 
> 
> 
> The state( people's govt) has been systematically, since independence,
> weakened, impoverished & bought over by the rich, ie., capital. Even left
> govts have been made to appeal to pvt capital. They have had active help
> from the mainstream political parties, be it the Cong, BJP, the regional
> parties, including their best minds, in this overthrow of govt. Of course,
> they have taken their pound of flesh by joining the ranks of the super-rich.
> The main political class, without distinction, have been co-opted into the
> richest class & to actively own the objectives of this class. Its no longer
> a bargain, they are on the same side of the table, fashioning out a world
> ruthlessly based on their interests. Its a perfect 'Mafia" now.
> 
> 
> 
> Whats interesting is that this very mafia argues both sides, creates the
> issues, supports the Annas, imprisons him, makes him a hero, then gives it
> coverage, till all voices questioning its legitimacy is blanked out of
> public consciousness, in short, as a class, in complete control. It ensures
> that the legitimate fighter of this system, the left, the poor is left out.
> Is this accidental or even new? Not so.
> 
> 
> 
> Post WW-2, the US, clearly understanding the changing paradigm after that
> Pyrrhic war & the explosion of scientific thought, knew that imperialism has
> to be given a new form. The days of its brutal visage plowing thru the lives
> of the majority was over. It then, with the help of the old & wise Europe,
> fashioned its own opposition in the form of post-modernism. It sought to
> create a myth of universalisation of power, the infallible nature of law &
> democratic processes & urged people, "civil society" to come forward & fight
> for rights! No revolution by the left was necessary. The pvt citizen
> alongwith the pvt sector cd provide the best society for our race & the govt
> sd go small & finally disappear! The universal people's fight has been
> fractured or frustrated, wealth & power is again concentrated in a few
> hands, like old times & finally the middle-class has been bought over from
> the left, suitably fattened to be non-liberal." Globalisation" has replaced
> the " International" & ownership of capital instead of going to the people
> has bought them over thru the stock-market & the mirage of the American
> dream!
> 
> 
> 
> Isnt this already the case in India? Intellectuals now fight for the rights
> of the big "bribe giver" & wants govt to end. The govt has already been made
> to lose its capability to create production assets. All the anti-people
> reforms, with more in pipeline,the 2nd & the 3rd..has been legitimised, more
> so, post Anna; if there is no govt , there wd be no corruption! Simple! The
> left, unable to fight for the people, this space taken up by the mafia's
> agents , will lose credibility & once the people's angst is under remote
> control, the entire country cd be privatised.
> 
> 
> 
> With no real voice to oppose, every poor man's cry for help can be dubbed
> terrorist & stopped for ever. By then, we will be at decisive war with our
> neighbours & wd be critically dependent on the West for military &
> diplomatic support. By then, every capital holder & its middle-class
> employees wd be one with the west & cultural warriors for capital. The
> difference between this class & the rest of humanity, about 70% of them wd
> be so high that they wd termed mutant & annihilated to save the human race.
> 
> 
> 
> The whole world wd be rich & glorius!
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