Sinister Cultural Marxist
15th February 2011, 02:20
The Naxalites are fighting for the rights of poor tribal people, and claim to uphold Maoism as their ideology. But the treatment of religious institutions and priests in China was harsh during the cultural revolution, and resulted in the destruction of a lot of China's heritage.
India's very religiously diverse, and some parts of India are incredibly religious. How will Naxalites relate to the religious practices in India? What does it make of the unique cultural background of religion as it manifests in India, as opposed to how it manifested in Europe or China? Clearly their "New India" will be a secular state, there is no doubt about that, but will it impose atheism by force, or will it take a more nuanced approach where the viewpoints of religious people are respected to varying degrees, as long as the state does not accept theocracy or religious law? In my opinion, bringing harmony to the various groups, not controlling any particular group or diminishing its freedom, should be the goal of the government.
Obviously, the movement will have to fight tooth and nail against all "counterrevolutionary" currents from religion (casteism, religious discrimination, religious violence), but what about the general practices of the broader populace?
India's very religiously diverse, and some parts of India are incredibly religious. How will Naxalites relate to the religious practices in India? What does it make of the unique cultural background of religion as it manifests in India, as opposed to how it manifested in Europe or China? Clearly their "New India" will be a secular state, there is no doubt about that, but will it impose atheism by force, or will it take a more nuanced approach where the viewpoints of religious people are respected to varying degrees, as long as the state does not accept theocracy or religious law? In my opinion, bringing harmony to the various groups, not controlling any particular group or diminishing its freedom, should be the goal of the government.
Obviously, the movement will have to fight tooth and nail against all "counterrevolutionary" currents from religion (casteism, religious discrimination, religious violence), but what about the general practices of the broader populace?