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Defected to the U.S.S.R.: 11 Nov 2009, 07:13 Ideology: Other Leftist Politburo
Do you support the Naxalite rebels in India? Why or Why not?
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Defected to the U.S.S.R.: 13 Feb 2008, 15:25 Ideology: Other Leftist Politburo
Yes. If nothing else, the Naxals serve to destabilise the present right wing and reactionary Indian government. I wish them well and hope they don't make the same mistakes Mao made.
I wonder how anybody could answer no to this. Of course I do. I dunno if they're going to have a proletarian revolution, but they're still the most progressive force in India.
"Don't know why i'm still surprised with this shit anyway." - Loz
How could they be the most progressive force in India? They don't have a working class programme.
They're peasant terrorists who emerged in opposition to industrialisation. In as far as they support the development of industrial capitalism the Congress Party is more progressive than them. The moment one accepts the notion of 'totalitarianism', one is firmly locked within the liberal-democratic horizon. - Slavoj Žižek
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Defected to the U.S.S.R.: 15 Jul 2009, 21:32 Ideology: Democratic Socialism Pioneer Mabool wrote: This.
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Defected to the U.S.S.R.: 11 Nov 2009, 07:13 Ideology: Other Leftist Politburo
Some dislike the Naxals because they kill peasants and CPI(M) members.
I don't think that is a scientific reason to reject them since the CPI(M) allows peasants to die by the hands of the state which they participate in. ![]()
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Defected to the U.S.S.R.: 14 Jan 2010, 05:46 Ideology: Marxism-Leninism Party Member Whitten wrote: Industrialization does not help the people and peasants of India. Especially the indigenous people of India. The CPI(M) have sold out to the capitalists, so supporting the Naxalites seems like the best choice. "Those who do not move, do not notice their chains." - Rosa Luxemburg Long Live The Bolivarian Revolution! RIP Muamar Qadafi RIP Hugo Chavez
No industrialization is absolutely necessary to the workers of India being able to stand up for themselves. A massive peasantry is a hindrance if anything. The Naxalites murder communists not because they're corrupt or have "bought into capitalism" but because what the CPI(M) proposes would destroy the base of the Naxalites. They [Naxals] are terrorists posing as communists.
That said voted Other because we're weak enough to support even people of this sort to a certain degree. ![]()
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Defected to the U.S.S.R.: 14 Jan 2010, 05:46 Ideology: Marxism-Leninism Party Member
If the CPI(M) don't seem to care about the people of India. They definitely did not care about the people of Nandigram.
"Those who do not move, do not notice their chains." - Rosa Luxemburg Long Live The Bolivarian Revolution! RIP Muamar Qadafi RIP Hugo Chavez Quote: Interesting wording, "the people and peasants." The peasants are specifically that class of people in society who have not had capitalist relations brough to them yet, so it's almost true by definition that they are not the beneficiaries of industrialisation. All the more cruel that the Naxalites should seek to deprive them of its fruits, to prevent their assimilation into capitalism. On the contrary, industrialisation has greatly improve the lives of many workers and the middle classes. Those proletarians in India able to find stable employment enjoy many of the same luxuries that we have in the west. Has it improved their lives enough? No, of course not. But even if we conceded the claim that industrialisation had been of no help, the Marxist answer to this is industrialisation under workers' ownership and control (so that they may also own the benefits), not to oppose industrialisation. The Naxals should re-examine the revolution they claim their inspiration from and dust off their books, whatever happened to the Great Leap Forwards, comrades? Quote: The who now? When did indigenous and non-indigenous peoples of India enter this? Quote: The Jacobins supported the capitalists, so we should support King Louis? Why should we support peasant reactionaries just because they're anti-capitalist. The moment one accepts the notion of 'totalitarianism', one is firmly locked within the liberal-democratic horizon. - Slavoj Žižek
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Defected to the U.S.S.R.: 04 Aug 2004, 20:49 Ideology: Democratic Socialism Embalmed
Yes, because it's lulzy to read the stories where up to a hundred policemen die when the cops try to invade their territory. Hilarity, endless hilarity!
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Defected to the U.S.S.R.: 14 Jan 2010, 05:46 Ideology: Marxism-Leninism Party Member Quote: Villages and forests of the indigenous Adivasis people are destroyed to build mine's, refineries, and factories. The Adivasis are sent to camps to live in, they are promised jobs but they never get them. "Those who do not move, do not notice their chains." - Rosa Luxemburg Long Live The Bolivarian Revolution! RIP Muamar Qadafi RIP Hugo Chavez
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Defected to the U.S.S.R.: 14 May 2013, 19:04 Ideology: Maoist Pioneer
My answer is yes.
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