Good to hear that they're organized and efficient
Im still contemplating and understanding their political ideology
However, I support their fight for liberation
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Bastar (Chhattisgarh): The Red Corridor of the Maoists begins in Nepal and runs through Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Orissa, Chhattisgarh, and Maharashtra right up to Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka.
But it is in southern Chhattisgarh where the Maoists have set up their first liberated zone - the Dandakaranya Liberated Zone.
This zone is administered by the Janatana Sarkar, a parallel government set up by the Maoists.
When the CNN-IBN Special Investigation Team went for a spot-check, it took them four days to reach a Maoist camp in the deep forests of Dandakaranya. The team traveled by train, bus and motor cycle and finally a long stretch on foot.
Walking is a way of life for all Maoists. And if one wants to know more about them, one has to walk with them. The first thing that a Dalam, or a squad of 10 armed guerillas, does at the crack of dawn, is walk.
This is standard strategy of the Maoist guerillas - not to camp at a place for more than 12 hours. Inside the forests of Dandakaranya in southern Chhattisgarh, the Maoists are setting up what they describe as their first liberated zone.
Here, one notices the familiarity between the villagers and the Maoist insurgents. They regularly exchange the 'Lal Salaam'- an unmistakable sign of solidarity, making it difficult for the security forces to collect intelligence about the movement of Maoist guerillas.
According Sannu, president of the local Revolutionary People's Committee, every village has a suraksha (security) committee to prevent the security forces from gathering intelligence.
"The (security) committee is to protect villages, people and squads against informers, CIDs and police," he says.
So much so that a Maoist squad is dependent on the villagers for cooking utensils. The squad only carries essential food supplies.
It is this familiarity with the tribal villagers that has enabled the Maoists to work freely among the tribal villages in the Dandakaranya forest.
People queuing up up to meet Maoist leaders is a familiar sight in the villages in Dandakaranya.
Claims Ganesh Uyike, Division Secretary of Dandakaranya Special Zone: "We are setting up Revolutionary People's Committees for the villages, ranging between 500 to 3,000 population. People outside commit crimes and go to courts."
"But here, the justice is immediate. It doesn't allow exploitation of one by another. It works against violence against women. Janatana Sarkar aims for peace and self-reliance," he adds. This is quiet a revolution going on deep inside the forests.
Interestingly, the Maoists also have women and teenagers in their ranks. In fact, half of the cadres are women. And almost all members of the squad are local tribals.
(With Vanaja in Bastar)
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Good to hear that they're organized and efficient
Im still contemplating and understanding their political ideology
However, I support their fight for liberation
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though i have my doubts about Maoism to say the least *ahem...big understatement* i've been hearing many good things about them lately in the Nepal-India region.
Maybe its time to like shed those prejudices about Maoists I've gotten from reading about China
ο λαός θα πεί την τελευταία λέξη - αυτές οι νύχτες είναι του αλέξη!
Freedom without equality is privilege - Equality without freedom is a barracks
'Engels, my brother from another class,
we haz got to get fucked up on the grog, and then revolt...if the lessons of the Paris Commune has taught as such, the working class cannot lay hold of the ready made bourgeoisie alcohol, they must smash it, and get pissed on cheap methylated spirits.
holler,
marxy.'
- BCBM=AndreasBaader
Are there any questions I could answer for you? If so, you're always welcome to post them here, to PM me, or even to IM my on AIM.
i have a question but it perhaps hasnt really got to do with maoism but more with what it became in china
Personality cults are wrong, i hope you agree... and i hope you agree in the case of Mao there sure as hell was one of such cults, does this have anything whatsoever with the actual Maoist ideology?
ο λαός θα πεί την τελευταία λέξη - αυτές οι νύχτες είναι του αλέξη!
Freedom without equality is privilege - Equality without freedom is a barracks
'Engels, my brother from another class,
we haz got to get fucked up on the grog, and then revolt...if the lessons of the Paris Commune has taught as such, the working class cannot lay hold of the ready made bourgeoisie alcohol, they must smash it, and get pissed on cheap methylated spirits.
holler,
marxy.'
- BCBM=AndreasBaader
Good question. I think that it is imprtant to acknowledge the difference between personality cults and popular leadership.
On many levels in China, there was a semi-fuedal trend that seeped into the masses in China. They had worshipped men for centuries, and they didn't know the difference. Mao struggled very hard against this tendency, but it is very difficult to reverse in the short period that China was a socialist country (from 1949 to 1976).
Today in Nepal, there are some Hindus trying to claim that one of the central committee members is a reincarnated god. This is a tendency that the party will have to wage a long and difficult struggle against.
However, there is absolutely nothing wrong with the masses defending, popularizing, and rallying behind their revolutionary leadership from a scientific perspective.
Everyone knows that communists want to get to a world without states or contradictions. However, objectively, we are living in a system that births inequalities and uneveness. Because of this, some people are going to advance more rapidly than others, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with the masses rallying behind their most advanced section, the vanguard, which leads them forward first against the forces of internal bourgeosie, and then against the forces of imperialism until we get to the world wide society known as communism.
If the masses were to allow the enemy to murder and attack their most advanced section, it would be detrimental to the whole revolution. For example, when Lenin died of an anarchist-assassination invoked stroke, there was no one with nearly as good of a program to look to, and they had to turn to Stalin to provide revolutionary leadership.
Similarly, the FBI was able to dissolve the Black Panther Party by targetting and assassinating the BPP leadership. They also used tactics such as isolating their leadership from the masses.
As for Nepal, Chairman Prachanda directly addressed the need to build a system differently this time. He has develop a method which will perpetually train new leaders while current leaders play their role. It will aim to solve the problem of "socialism until mao dies" that plagued the socialist experiences in the soviet union, china, and albania.
Hope that answers your question.
They, like almost all modern "Maoists" seem to be of the ultra-left variation not accepting the ideas of pragmatism and the true lessons of Mao Zedong Thought, but pinning all hopes on "Cultural Revolution" and the blind utopianist "it is right to rebel" strategy. I would hope they will come into the fold of learning from Chairman Mao's teachings and his works and his errors and the entire Chinese Revolutionary experiance to present.
"When we hang the capitalists, they will sell us the rope we use."
- Josef Stalin
Statues were built of Mao
that goes way beyond "popular leadership"
Also Mao was "the great helmsman" and all that crap
Well its the goal of marxists to do away with all forms of leadership. So promoting such, often blind, "rallying behind the leadership" is hypocritical.
say what now
Which is were it all went wrong.
It shouldnt've been necessary to turn to anyone for "revolutionary leadership". In fact, turning to leadership is in my eyes counterrevolutionary, because it reverts the situation basicly back to feudalism.
Err
so
perpetually training a new elite to take over when the old elite is gone?? thereby you make sure that when the bourgeoisie has been driven away, that the new ruling class stands ready to take over, the leaders you're training. And in the end the proletariat/peasants will be oppressed once again
Also, the "Prachanda Path", sounds a bit personality cult-ish to me, as well as the fact that a party should never have 1 leader, especially not for long amounts of time.
The only way to combat this, is to do away with leaders, and putting power with an entire class...this class being the proletariate. Which would also be the most marxist thing to do now wouldnt it.
what you seem to be proposing can be characterised with the following sentence
"say goodbye to the old boss, say hello to the new one"
meaning; NOTHING CHANGES
ο λαός θα πεί την τελευταία λέξη - αυτές οι νύχτες είναι του αλέξη!
Freedom without equality is privilege - Equality without freedom is a barracks
'Engels, my brother from another class,
we haz got to get fucked up on the grog, and then revolt...if the lessons of the Paris Commune has taught as such, the working class cannot lay hold of the ready made bourgeoisie alcohol, they must smash it, and get pissed on cheap methylated spirits.
holler,
marxy.'
- BCBM=AndreasBaader
