Originally posted by RedDali+April 29, 2007 12:00 am--> (RedDali @ April 29, 2007 12:00 am)
@April 28, 2007 05:06 am
How many of you guys are aware of the Nandigram issue? Please read the link which I have provided below.
India: Nandigram – the brutal massacre of peasants at the hands of the ‘Left’ front government
What political system should be installed ? Easy............Maoism. Marxism would totally cripple the booming Indian market economy and reduce living standards to below tolerable. In Maoism, and contary to Marxism, capital is embraced, hence, China's booming economy.
Maoism has nothing to do with Chinas booming economy and also the Maoists in India are against globalization and other neo liberal policies, that doesn’t mean that I am for globalization.
Personally, I think the IMT is being far too kind in taking a line that the CPI and CPI(M) are being led by social democrats: Trotsky would have called them fascists.
What the "communist" government is doing is no different than Prescott Bush's role in the building of the Auschwitz death camp. (He owned a steel manufacturing company and made a fortune building the raw materials that were used in Auschwitz's construction...) Working with Salim is the moral equivalent to working with Nazi-era Volkswagen, to use one of many examples of German corporations implicated in Nazi crimes against humanity: The Suharto government's massacres of communists, ethnic minorities, and religious minorities are exponentially worse than anything the Soviets did in Afghanistan and rival the atrocities committed by the Nazi regime.
I would suggest that you read
Fascism: What It Is and How to Fight It. I would hate to be accused of nitpicking; ignoring what you completely wrote while going off the intended subject of this thread, but I think your statement is fundamentally incorrect. In the introduction of this work, George Lavan Weissman sums up what I am about to tell you.
George Lavan Weissman wrote:
The Communist movement was still on its ultra-left binge (the so-called Third Period) when the Nazi movement began to snowball. To the Stalinists, every capitalist party was automatically "fascist". Even more catastrophic than this disorienting of the workers was Stalin's famous dictum that, rather than being opposites, fascism and social democracy were "twins". The socialists were thereupon dubbed "social fascists" and regarded as the main enemy. Of course, there could be no united front with social-fascist organizations, and those who, like Trotsky, urged such united fronts, were also labeled social fascists and treated accordingly.
In other words, I think you should suggest otherwise, and take the burden of such an accusation off of the back of Trotsky.
But to get on the topic of India, I think an endorsement of the Naxallites would be disastrous for the workers. In February, the Naxalites blew up a truck carrying striking workers back from a rally, while also killing more than 50 people. They usher from a semi-literate peasantry that is struggling to maintain their social relations amidst an attempt by the bourgeoisie to introduce industrialization to the forested area. They have targeted power stations, steel mills; attacked mines, blown up electricity pylons, and have torched cars. It is clear that their objective is to preserve their class; the peasantry that is facing displacement and forceful eviction through the expansion of capitalist production into their tribal areas. I don't think we should recognize this as some sort of
revolutionary movement, in that it wants to preserve the archaic and destitute past.
The class composition of India is mostly that of peasants, agricultural laborers, and other petty artisans; with the urban working class composing of only 21% of the entire population. There is clear proof of erosion of workers’ real earnings, which in a decade has fallen drastically to less than half, so we can expect the class divide to increase in a few years if this trend continues. But still, we have seen a weakening of working class organizations, and a decline in class action, such as strikes, walk-outs, and other forms of class struggle. I do not know the situation as well as I should, but I will look this subject up.[/b]
