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A spectre is haunting India, the spectre of communism
Report and updates on the developing revolutionary situation in India
The revolutionary situation in India today stands at a crucial juncture
and events in the next few years could very well decide it's
success or failure.
India is country with a population close to 1.1 billion but what many don't know
is that it is also one of the two countries in the world to have an estimated
100-120 million workers in trade unions and as members of communist
organizations.(China being the other one)
They are extremely fragmented,divided and opposed to each other but
nonetheless have immense potential.
With the rise of the CPI(Maoist) there is now hope that many of these
organizations could consolidate.
Who are the Naxalites ?
Naxalite or Naxalism is an informal name given to revolutionary communist groups that were born out of the Sino-Soviet split in the Indian communist movement. The term comes from Naxalbari, a small village in West Bengal, where a leftist section of Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) led by Charu Majumdar and Kanu Sanyal led a militant peasant uprising in 1967, trying to develop a "revolutionary opposition" in order to establish "revolutionary rule" in India.
Father of the Indian revolution - Comrade Charu Mazumdar
Majumdar greatly admired Mao Zedong of China and advocated that Indian peasants and lower classes must follow in his footsteps and overthrow the government and upper classes whom he held responsible for their plight. In 1967 'Naxalites' organized the All India Coordination Committee of Communist Revolutionaries (AICCCR), and broke away from CPI(M). Uprisings were organized in several parts of the country. In 1969 AICCCR gave birth to Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist). After the internal revolt led by Satyanarayan Singh in 1971 and the death of Majumdar in 1972, the movement was fragmented into many competing factions.
Since then in the last three decades the movements have witnessed splits,petty ego clashes,recombinations and what has remained constant throughout is the brutal state repression.
Today, there exists a large number of political organizations whose roots are in the AICCCR/CPI(ML). Some maintain and develop Majumdar's concept of armed revolution, whereas others have condemned the excesses of the sectarian epoch. The organizations belonging to the latter category have established legal overground structures (trade unions, student groups, etc.) and started participating in elections.
The more militant sector comprises:Take part only in armed struggle.
* Communist Party of India (Maoist) -- result of a September 2004 merger
between the Maoist Communist Centre (MCC) and the
Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) People's War,
also known as the People's War Group (PWG)
* Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Janashakti
* Communist Party of United States of India
* Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Naxalbari
* Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Mahadev Mukherjee)
The more moderate sector comprises:Take part in parliamentary elections.
* Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation
* Provisional Central Committee, Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)
* Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist), led by Kanu Sanyal
* Communist Revolutionary League of India
* Marxist-Leninist Committee
A middle-category can be said to consist of parties such as Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) New Democracy (who combine legal methods with armed struggle).
What is currently being witnessed in India is the third wave
of expansion, the first two in the 1970's and mid 1980's
were brutally crushed.
Out of all these naxalite/maoist parties ,The Communist Party of India(Maoist)
has emerged as the largest and the most powerful organisation.
Some pictures of CPI(Maoist) cadre
At a Training camp in Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh
Young maoist soldiers practice war
Members of the a CPI(Maoist) Dalam(squad)
CPI(Maoist) Rally deep inside the jungles
A Maoist martyr's memorial in secundrabad,Andhra Pradesh
The Maoists have spread and grown rapidly from
55 districts in 9 States in 2003 to
105 districts in 13 States in 2004 to
170 districts in 15 States in 2006.
India is divided into 28 states and seven union territories,
and has approximately 600 districts
The above map mainly shows the areas where the CPI(Maoist)
is waging People's War.
They have around 10,000 armed cadres with 50,000 active supporters and
15 to 20,000 weapons of all makes including AK-47's and INSAS rifles.
There are 1500 illegal arms manufacturing units in Bihar alone and an
indeterminate number in dense forests of other States.
A recent study by Amnesty International and OXFAM estimated that out of 75 million illegal arms worldwide, 40 million guns were in central India. The annual budget is approximately Rs 200 crore supported by taxations amounting to Rs 250 crore.
It is estimated that they run 80 training camps and train 300 Maoists at any one time.
The people's militia which is currently untrained and does not possess
many weapons easily runs into a couple of millions.
Government of India Response
The ruling classes have been gripped by panic and paranoia.
They have unleashed large scale repression.
Since the last one year a brutal anti-maoist campaign called
Salwa Judum is being carried out in the state of Chhattishgarh
the strong hold of Maoists.
An estimated 75,000 people have been moved out of their villages
and are being held in concentration camp like conditions.
Most of these people were formerly maoist sympathisers.
Chairman Mao had said the guerilla is a fish in an ocean of people.
The Indian government is trying to empty the ocean.
Hundreds have been killed in the last one year alone.
List of women raped and hacked to death by Salwa Judum goons,CRPF and Naga Battalion and State Police Forces
List of people killed by state police, Naga police, para-military forces and goons in the name of Salwa Judum(Partial)
List of villages burnt by Vigilante Gangs of Salwa Judum, CRPF, Naga Police and State Police Forces(Partial)
For detailed coverage on Salwa Judum
http://naxalrevolution.blogspot.com/...el/Salwa-Judum
It has deployed 23 central paramilitary battalions,
several battalions of the Indian army, UAVs and helicopters.
It has also stepped up recruitment and is assembling new
anti-maoist units.
The total number of personnel currently engaged in the
anti-maoist drive exceeds 100,000 personnel.
In October 2006
The Centre and the Naxalite-affected states drew up a 'hit list' of 100 top
Maoists who have to be neutralised as part of a strategy to tackle this
serious internal security threat.
Newsreport-Government of India plans to neutralise top 100 Maoists
2-3 of the top maoist leaders in the list have already been killed in encounters
in the last two months.
Spread of Maoists in India causes panic among the American government.
CIA and World bank closely monitoring the situation.
The mixed success of the Maoists in Nepal shook the US government out
of it's slumber.Afraid that India is headed the nepal way the US has chosen
to directly intervene with the help of Indian ruling classes.
In May 2006 the U.S government offered India help to fight the Maoists
http://naxalrevolution.blogspot.com/2006/0...-is-afraid.html
In Novemeber 2006, the US Army and Indian Army held joint millitary exercises
in Maoist territory.
News Report - US army holds joint exercises with Indian army in maoist territory
A Band of fierce maoist warriors
As of today civil war like conditions exist in large parts of the country.
The state repression is immense and Maoist sympathisers
have been jailed and killed in fake encounters,prison cells.
Thousands of students have jumped into the movement
and slowly the flame shall engulf the entire country.
The path of the Indian revolution has been long,
painful and torturous. But the struggle carries on.....
Will post more updates as and when they happen.
Below I leave you with some documents and material on the
Maoist Movement in India.
Blazing Trail: A Journey Through the Indian Revolution
An awe inspiring video documentary from the Red areas of India. This film documents the emergence of the Indian revolutionary process, coming as it is in a world of struggle, mass upheaval, rebellion and revolution!
This film includes footage of the Vietnamese people's defeat of the US imperialists, the victory and success of the Chinese People's Revolution and massive street rebellions shaking the citadels of imperialism. It shows the overall dialectical development of revolution, both in the oppressed and oppressor nations, shaking the imperialist system's foundations.
Today in India, the communist forces are stronger, united within the Communist Party Of India (Maoist), leading the Indian revolution by developing People's War.
This movie is a saga of heroism and sacrifice in the face of a brutal enemy masquarading as the World's "largest democracy", foundations are being laid for a New Democratic India..
Click below
Watch the documentary Blazing Trail - journey of the Indian revolution
Ganapathy, General Secretary of CPI(Maoist) replies to questions posed by
Independent Citizens Initiative
Maoist reply to Independent Citizen Initiative on Dantewada
Important Articles on The Maoist Movement in India
from Economic and Political Weekly(A progressive magazine of India)
Beyond Naxalbari
Learning from Experience and Analysis
Maoism in India
On Armed Resistance
The Spring and it's Thunder
The Maoist Movement in Andhra Pradesh
Comrade Azad official spokesperson of the CPI(Maoist) responds to
the above articles which appeared in the Economic and political weekly
Maoist reply to the above articles
Other Resources
Website of the CPI(Maoist)
Communist Parties of India List on Wikipedia
The economist-India's Naxalites : A spectre haunting India
Guardian Article Inside India's hidden war - Mineral rights are behind clashes between leftwing guerrillas and state-backed militias
Vice Magazine-In the name of Mao, India pick's up the slaughter
The Naxalite Movement in Central Bihar- By Bela Bhatia
Becoming a Naxalite in rural Bihar: Class struggle and its contradictions
A State at War With its People Anything goes against the Maoist insurgency in Central India
July 2006, Interview with CPI(Maoist) spokesperson on Nepal developments
Varavara Rao Archives(Revolutionary poet)
Chattishgarh People's Website on Naxal Issues
November 13th. Latest Press release of Com Azad spokesperson of CPI Maoist on Nepal Developments
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Please note I am here to inform
I understand that this forum is populated by anarchists
who are not very fond of maoists.
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As a person living in India this posts simply exaggerates the strength of Naxalites.The soul and Brain of Naxalites is gone with Death of Charu Majumdar and Vinod Mishra. In reality Naxals have not a bit of support or Enthusiasm outside ther strongholds in Telengana Region in AP,Chhattisgarh and Bihar. And Maoists their strength too is waning now a days because of more reforms taken by the respective state govts.
And most of the moderate reformist state govts makes it totally an unfavourable situation for guerilla wars.
a Personal Request: Could please give me an Update about Salwa judum ? Nothing is in Newspapers and Big Media and People's march site is Shut down. Thanks.
It is possible to build gigantic factories according to a ready-made Western pattern by bureaucratic command – although, to be sure, at triple the normal cost. But the farther you go, the more the economy runs into the problem of quality, which slips out of the hands of a bureaucracy like a shadow. The Soviet products are as though branded with the gray label of indifference. Under a nationalized economy, quality demands a democracy of producers and consumers, freedom of criticism and initiative – conditions incompatible with a totalitarian regime of fear, lies and flattery.
-Trotsky
Marx & Engels ! Lenin ! Trotsky
@ G Ram
You are entitled to your views but please note you claims
are not credible and you have not posted any evidence to back them up with
while I have
All updates on Salwa-Judum can be found at the link below
Salwa-Judum - A brutal state sponsered anti-maoist campaign
Peoplesmarch can now be accessed at
Peoplesmarch
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Hello Naxalrevolution, it is good to see you here. I completely disagree with g.ram about the size or the strength of the Naxalite movement. Today the movement definitely is strongest in Andhra Pradesh, Chhatisgarh and Bihar, however, it has a lot of support in several other regions including Punjab, Maharashtra and West Bengal. A report that was put out suggest that today the 12% of India is either under control or infiltrated by the Naxals. However, it must be noted that this infiltration or control is not singularly under one party, so one must speak of the 'Naxalite Left'. I think that the Naxals have a lot more support than people are willing to give them credit for.
Comrade Brownfist
Good to see you here...
Yes you are right the control does not rest with one single party
Historical reasons, bad blood and petty ego issues might prevent
any consolidation for now until a new leadership rises which will be
able to rally them together.
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I agree that there is an element of bad blood and petty egos that make it more difficult to have the kind of consolidation that is required in India, however, there are some very large tactical and ideological differences between the parties as well, especially if we look at the CPI(Maoist) and the CPI(ML)Liberation. However, I do think that if we look at the last 10 years of history there has been a lot of principled ideological struggle which has allowed for the consolidation of numerous parties. Whether this be the CPI(ML)Kanu Sanyal, the CPI(Maoist) or the Punjabi CPRCI(ML). I mean the situation is a lot more clarified than it was less than 20 years ago. I mean there are some rumors of 1 or 2 other mergers between parties, but those have yet not occurred.
I agree comrade
There has been some consolidation.
Now if only they could all find a way to blunt
the offensive of the security agencies....
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great to see you here comrade, I enjoy your blog very much. I am a Maoist and one of the reasons I became interested in Mao Zedong Thought was the Revolutions in Nepal, Peru, the Philipines, and of course India where workers and people continue to fight for socialism in the day and age where communism is supposedly "dead". Keep up the fight comrade.
As for G.Ram/Ganapytharam and the Naxalites: he criticizes the Naxalites once for "following the Mao to much" lol
"Love Other Human Beings like you would Yourself"
-- Ho Chi Minh
"We Don't Care who gets elected, because whoever it is will be Overthrown"
-- Subcomandante Marcos
Also, comrade Naxal would you mind if I reprint your original post and link to your blog?
"Love Other Human Beings like you would Yourself"
-- Ho Chi Minh
"We Don't Care who gets elected, because whoever it is will be Overthrown"
-- Subcomandante Marcos
I criticise Naxalites more for doing what Mao did in China which more different than India.
And have no presence in other states. It not weakness of them alone. There many regional differences in India and mode and methos which works in One region may/do not work in another.As Internationalists Naxalites must have grown past this but the fact they too have stuck within it shows their bankruptcy. And once Naxalbari movement had a great following all over India from which they have been reduced in to those Mentioned states.And i say i am truly not happy for it.
naxalrevolution
Thanks for the Links. I am not claiming anything but just gave an Opinion.
It is possible to build gigantic factories according to a ready-made Western pattern by bureaucratic command – although, to be sure, at triple the normal cost. But the farther you go, the more the economy runs into the problem of quality, which slips out of the hands of a bureaucracy like a shadow. The Soviet products are as though branded with the gray label of indifference. Under a nationalized economy, quality demands a democracy of producers and consumers, freedom of criticism and initiative – conditions incompatible with a totalitarian regime of fear, lies and flattery.
-Trotsky
Marx & Engels ! Lenin ! Trotsky
Can somone please say exactly what support this movement has with the every day Indian? Are they criticised for using violent tactics or being too tough/authoritarian? How do they relate to other social movements in India? Do they hold strong sectarian views as to who they cooperate with? How do they justify using tactics which might hurt civilians (not a loaded question, the topic of mines especially concerns me: how do they ensure that civilians are not killed?) What relation do they have with other violent factions in India and in the area. More specifically how do they relate fundamentalist relgious groups (Muslim, Hindu and any other)?
Please no: "We will blaze the path you utpoian anarchist! The People demand it! For Mao!" I would like some answers please.
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India is very much diversified country so some things which apply and work in one place may not be applicable or workable in other.During the early 60's during Sino-Soviet split Naxalites broke from CPI and CPI(M) broke that barrier and had great following and sympathy from people all over India.They were so much feared by the Indian ruling elite that they implemented halfheartedly Land Redistribution as a way to check their influence and it worked partly.Actually Naxalites committed a political suicide during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation war when Mao's China asked them to support Pakistan(Charu Majumdar opposed this proposition from CPC leading in to the first split) and after Majumdar died in police custody naxlaites suffered from extreme repression from the Central Government and Various state governments and also from the lack of unity among themselves(which is very difficult in Indian politics almost all parties have split in to various times here) and lack of tactics.
They have good strongholds in
(1) Telengana region in AndhraPradesh(It is the most backward area in that state and for many years the people have been demanding for a seperate state there)
(2)Many country side in Chattisgargh(It is the most backward state with still remains of feudalism still present.Oppressed people there follow their leadership passionately).
(3) In Countrysides of Bihar and Jharkhand(These two states are very much rich in Natural resources despite it are the poorest and most underdeveloped states in India because of super exploitation of those resources by Big Businesses in coalition with corrupt politicians)
Outside these states some groups do not carry out the people's war instead participate in elections.
Well this list shows how much sectarian they are.
I cannot say much about Muslims in India. They always vote for CPI and CPI(M) as long as there is BJP.Naxalites strongholds have very little Muslim population and as long as they are not interfered in their religious practices they will not oppose any body(most of the Indian Muslims have more moderate and reformed outlook than their world counterparts).Most of the Naxalite ranks are filled by Hindu OBC's,MBC's and (Hindu and Christian)Dalits who are not fooled by their respective caste based populist politicians.
Their rank and file is formed by oppressed masses. In their strongholds they have total control and they are conducting a War against Central and State governments.Of course it affects civilians as they form a part in Modern warfare right from WW2.
It is possible to build gigantic factories according to a ready-made Western pattern by bureaucratic command – although, to be sure, at triple the normal cost. But the farther you go, the more the economy runs into the problem of quality, which slips out of the hands of a bureaucracy like a shadow. The Soviet products are as though branded with the gray label of indifference. Under a nationalized economy, quality demands a democracy of producers and consumers, freedom of criticism and initiative – conditions incompatible with a totalitarian regime of fear, lies and flattery.
-Trotsky
Marx & Engels ! Lenin ! Trotsky
Thnaks for that g.ram . You will have to forgiv eme for not using any of the various names and acronyms seeing as i havent quite identified what and who every one is yet.
What kind of suppor tis their in Urban areas? As far as i understand it appears that they are mostly focusing their war on the areas outside of large cities and have support base outside of the cities as well and mostly in rural areas.
Does the list mean they are quite sectarian. Because forgive me, but those are a lot fof different partys. Though when taking into account how utterly huge India is it is not that much. Do the Communists run in both national and regional elections?
I was referreng to the alleged terrorist groups. I have heard that there is some relgious warring goign on in India. Specifically there was an atttack on a train in which some hundreds (thousands?) died. Do the Maoists see this as a threat or as de-facto allies ina greater war against the Indian government. How differnet ifs the Governmental response to the Local response? In the Zapatista upriosing of 1994 in Mexico i know that the Federal Government was much more reluctant to fight the EZLN than the local government. In Oaxaca we saw a converse effect in which the Local government was much less strong than the Federal response.
This implies that civilians are used as legitimate targets by both side. This is how modern warfare has been conducted by most (by no means all) armies. For example the Nazis targeted civilian populations in the UK and the Allies targetted civilians in Germany (London Manchester, Cologne, Dresden etc). Do the Maoists see civilians contained wihtin government controlled areas as enemy combatants and target them specifically? Or is it "just" cross fire?
How do the Indian Maoists defend the failures of Maoism in China? These failures are in my view millions of unecessary proletarian and intelectual deaths in the Great Leap Forwards, brutal repression and dictatorship on the people, involvement in imperialist struggles (Tibbet) and a slow but definite migration towards a corporate dictatorship.
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The Naxal support in Urban areas mostly varies. In some cities most people with sympathise for their cause and in others they might not.But for most of the Urban workers everyday life is is basically hell as they have a big competition for their jobs most of the Indian workers are the hardest working people in the world working as much as 10 times worth their wage every day.So it is difficult for them to analyse every news so they take news for facts and few big businesses control all media outlets.So we can't determine what urban workers truly think about Naxals.
But the Naxalites do not seem to care about it.It is perhaps my biggest criticism of them.
Most of the splits occur because of petty politics of Individuals.The first split in CPI occurred before Independence when some of them refused to go in line with Comintern's policy of supporting British imperialism during WW2.The next one is even before Sino-Soviet split and following Sino-Soviet Split and many more afterwards mainly due to leadership issues.
Yes CPI and CPI(M) and many leftist parties(except die-hard Maoists) have joined a big alliance and that alliance Have captured power in states of Kerala and West Bengal and offer critical support for the present neo-liberal Congress led United Democratic Front.They oppose neo liberal policies in states they don't rule and implement them in the states they rule making them biggest hypocrites in the eyes of Indian Masses.
Maoists who participate in elections have some minimal support in Most industrialised areas.They dont have big base as their armed Naxalite counterparts or CPI and CPI(M).
There have been no year passed in India without major a religious clash from the day Babri Masjid was demolished in 1991.Trains and buses are favorite target for both Hindu and Muslim fundamentalists.Which incident are you referring to
? Recently some bombs have been planted in trains in Mumbai which weer set to explode during the peak hours.Indian govt suspects range from local mafia to Al-Quaeda.
They cant ally with Hindu fundamentalists. As far as Muslim fundamentalism 80% of which exported from Pakistan I suppose they neither ally or oppose it.
The central government here normally does not respond every petty issues going on in the states(Except Jammu and Kashmir). It involves only when thing get out of control(means when opposition party gets voted to power in state). It is mostly the state government which responds to Naxalites and they receive special funding from the Central government.
I don't live anywhere near those states which have been controlled by Naxalites . So i am not in a position to give you a honest answer.
For most part they put the Blame on Deng Xio Ping.
In this case they acknowledge that it is good for the Tibetan people who had been freed from Lamas.Trust me lamas are not as good as they are projected in the west but China's occupation of that region has more military and strategic reasons apart freeing Tibetian masses from Lamas oppression.
It is possible to build gigantic factories according to a ready-made Western pattern by bureaucratic command – although, to be sure, at triple the normal cost. But the farther you go, the more the economy runs into the problem of quality, which slips out of the hands of a bureaucracy like a shadow. The Soviet products are as though branded with the gray label of indifference. Under a nationalized economy, quality demands a democracy of producers and consumers, freedom of criticism and initiative – conditions incompatible with a totalitarian regime of fear, lies and flattery.
-Trotsky
Marx & Engels ! Lenin ! Trotsky
I have been studying the Naxalite movement pretty closely for the last 3 years and these are some of the few inflections and thoughts on the below questions. There are several good books on the topic of the Naxalite movement, and if one reads them they will find that there have been numerous disagreements and debates in the Naxalite movement from Day 1 which has resulted in the history of the movement being incredibly complicated, and thus one cannot talk simply of the Naxalite movement as if it were a unified movement, but rather one can see some general trends but have to focus on some very specific parties and their particular policies.
The Naxalite movement does have some support in urban areas but much of the focus indeed has been on the countryside. However, we must look at which sectors of the Indian city have supported the Naxalite movement, and which have not. Largely the city-based support from my study has come from working-class and petite bourgeois students enrolled in a wide variety of universities. There has been less support from the working-class. However, the CPI(ML)Liberation for example, which is the pro-Deng Xiaoping faction of the larger movement has made several in-roads in the last 20 years into the urban centers, and has developed several small-medium sized trade unions. In recent years however, even the CPI(Maoist), which g.ram would characterize as "not seem[ing] to care" has started to work with the Indian urban working-class. I have met several comrades in places like Delhi who are now organizing trade unions within the industrial working class. Having said that, it is still largely true that the movement has concentrated on the rural peasantry and tribal populations, but this is largely due to the kind of exploitation, oppression and dispossesment that they face, which no party or grouping in India has been adequately been able to deal with.
The series of splits that we can see in the list are due to numerous reasons, some of which are indeed due to petty politics of individuals. Many of the groupings that you see are limited to regions, in which a CPI or CPI(M) state committee will have a split. However, there have been several real tactical line differences which have caused differences as well. Within the Naxalite movement there were numerous splits according to various issues. One of which actually occurred in 1969, due to major tactical issues between Charu Majumdar, who advanced the annihilation line and T.N. Reddy who advanced a mass line. The Charu Majumdar CPI-ML went through a series of splits and consolidations on various questions including 1) Lin Biao 2) Deng Xiaoping 3) Tactical line 4) Maoism vs. Mao Zedong Though 5) Annihilation line 6) People's War. Indeed some of the differences are due to sectarianism, but also one has to see the list as actually demonstrated the vibrancy of the Indian party left, which consistently is debating theoretical and political line.
What g. ram has written is largely true. However, the one exception is the CPI(ML)Liberation that has given up people's war and has advanced a line of parliamentary communism. They have had success not at a national level, but at a regional level, in which they have several MLA's in Jharkand, Bihar and Andhra Pradesh. But it is true that majority of the Naxal or Naxal-inspired parties have not much success in elections. But, I do need to remind people that rural people get to vote too, so let us not act as if the elections in India, or the nature of Indian economy, is completely industrialized.
There is no religious warring in India. Indeed there have been dreadful moments in India when religious fundamentalist forces, especially Hindu fundamentalist forces, have conducted mass pogroms against the Muslim population. This has been done by the states in which the BJP, a Hindu nationalist party, has taken power. The incident that you are referring to is the Godhra train massacre, which resulted in a series of pogroms being conducted in the state of Gujrat. The supreme court ruled that the incident had not been started by Muslims, and that the incident had been created with the direct intention of starting the pogroms. Thus, what we see in India is a fascist party which is trying to create a crises so that they can regain control of the state.
The Maoists are opposed to any kind of religious fundamentalism and do not work with any of these parties. The Maoists are not interested in the destruction of the country, rather they are patriots that would like to see the end of semi-colonial rule in India, and the proper and egalitarian distribution of wealth within the Indian polity.
The Maoists do not see civilians that live within government-controlled areas as enemy combatants, rather they unfortunately get hurt due to crossfire between Indian forces and the Maoists, especially during raids on police posts. In recent years the police has funded a group called the Salwa Judum, which was initially heralded as a civilian response to the Naxalite movement, but subsequently has been found by numerous independent citizen committees to be funded, armed and paid for by the Indian state governments (they essentially pay the Indian peasants and tribals to fight against the Naxals).
The Indian maoists would argue that the failures that you speak of are due to bourgeois propaganda, and indeed much of what you are stating is exactly that. There has been some initial good work done on whether the deaths that are attributed to the Great Leap Forward actually occurred, and if some deaths occurred what were the causes. I would suggest that you read an article that is on the Monthly Review website entitled, "Did Mao Really Kill Millions in the Great Leap Forward?" The website link is http://monthlyreview.org/0906ball.htm. I think that we need to recognize that or a revolution to occur, and for the necessary changes in the modes of production people will die. This is unfortunate but true. Even if we look at the changes in the modes of production that occurred in Europe from feudalism to industrial capitalism to finance capitalism, we see millions of deaths occurring except that they are spread over time thus making them invisible (and also the fact that in the capitalist narrative of Western development these deaths are consistently downplayed). Marx writes about this in Capital Vol. 1 in his chapter on "Bloody Legislation", Michel Foucault (who is not a Marxist) writes about this when he writes about the birth of prison and the mental establishments. The debate about what actually happened in China during the Great leap Forward and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution needs to be still written.
As for the restoration of capitalism in China the blame goes to capitalist-roaders. These are people within the Communist party who wanted to liberalize China economically, this people were led as mentioned earlier by Deng Xiaping and we do see that under his leadership that China does start to take a capitalist path. There will always be ideological struggle in a party, and we cannot assume that just because one is a left-wing group or collective (be it communist of whichever shde or anarchist) they have been able to expunge the mode of thought that they learnt under capitalism. Thus, the party tried to ensure that capitalism did not occur in China by engaging the in the Cultural Revolution and for a time it was successful, but with the death of Mao and the imprisonment of the "Gang of Four", we see a complete putsch by the capitalist-roaders.
I think that on the question of Tibet the movement in India would indeed argue that there have been benefits to Chinese interventions in Tibet, and the removal of the Lama regime. However, I think that they would be (and I cannot find any documentation to support or counteract this) that what would be needed in Tibet is a national liberation struggle in which the Tibetan people would engage in their own people's war against the Chinese revisionist state.
There is Possibly 0% chance for it as all religious and ethnic minorities(like Tibetians,Uighurs,Mongols etc) enjoy more freedom and autonomy than the majority Han people.So if any resistance will be started by Han people which is likely as generally chinese workers and leaders approach any problem in Nationalistsic rhetoric and rarely use Marxism(Even Mao is no exception to it)
It is possible to build gigantic factories according to a ready-made Western pattern by bureaucratic command – although, to be sure, at triple the normal cost. But the farther you go, the more the economy runs into the problem of quality, which slips out of the hands of a bureaucracy like a shadow. The Soviet products are as though branded with the gray label of indifference. Under a nationalized economy, quality demands a democracy of producers and consumers, freedom of criticism and initiative – conditions incompatible with a totalitarian regime of fear, lies and flattery.
-Trotsky
Marx & Engels ! Lenin ! Trotsky
CM rules out stopping industrialisation
(Source: The Statesman)
Statesman News Service
KOLKATA, Jan. 3 : “History of Bengal will come to an end if we stop the process of industrialisation just because the Opposition wants us to stay away from agricultural land. And, history will not spare us”, the state chief minister,Mr Buddhadeb Bhattcharjee, said this afternoon even as reports of the clash at Nandigram were coming in. “We are on the right track. The government accepts the moral responsibility to provide affected people with alternative means of livlihood”.
Addressing audience at the 41st foundation day celebration of the CPI-M mouthpiece, Ganashakti at Netaji Indoor Stadium,Mr Bhattacharjee made it clear that the political impasse over Singur will not affect the process of acquiring agricultural land for industry and Sez in other parts of the state.
The chief minister quoted statistics in support of this statements. “About 68 per cent of Bengal’s population now depends on agriculture while it contributes only 26 per cent to the state’s total income. We have to boost industry....People of this state cannot sustain on agriculture forever.”
The CPI(M) and the Left Front are displaying their revisionist pro-capitalist anti-worker politics in the open. There cannot be any dispute that the CPI(M) and the Left Front have become the handmaidens of the capitalists in West Bengal. They have given up any pretense that they are truly concerned with the plight of the working-class and the peasantry.
They are no longer communists. They are Neo-Liberal sellouts.Obviously Buddhadeb Bhattacharya takes China and DengXioPing as his role model.
And worse is Kerala chief minister Achuthananthan.He is driving on a wave of Anti-Tamil(People of his neighbouring states) on the Mullai-Periyar Dam issue. I really don't know why the fuck they call themselves Marxists and Communists.
It is possible to build gigantic factories according to a ready-made Western pattern by bureaucratic command – although, to be sure, at triple the normal cost. But the farther you go, the more the economy runs into the problem of quality, which slips out of the hands of a bureaucracy like a shadow. The Soviet products are as though branded with the gray label of indifference. Under a nationalized economy, quality demands a democracy of producers and consumers, freedom of criticism and initiative – conditions incompatible with a totalitarian regime of fear, lies and flattery.
-Trotsky
Marx & Engels ! Lenin ! Trotsky
