Comments on: Under Siege

By: sapera

sapera — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 08:37:17 +0000

“Not just the borgadars, the CPM has also lost the intellectuals and the liberals who now are all for property rights (while they were against it during the 80s) even though it stands to reason that industrialization will bring about more jobs and “greater good”.”

wow, there’s just so much wrong with that assertion. the first time it was to (at least theoretically) dismantle feudal proprietary rights, the second time it was to preserve them FOR the peasants. it’s so disingenuous of you to gloss over this bit. i’m hardly a CPM doctrinaire, but even i recognize the land reforms as a (perhaps the only) major achievement which didn’t happen in UP/Bihar btw, and WB is better for it. Could you write one thing on here that isn’t stale hearsay? This blog is full of the sort of ad hominem stuff my mom would say. but then, she isn’t attempting to write a political blog!

i’m convinced you are a political conservative, who has been soured by the reality of CPM’s Stalinist electoral politics into stubborn recalcitrance and thus refuses to ever have a dialogue with any progressive whom you dismiss as effete liberals with your magic wand of anti-intellectualism.

also, your slant is terribly obvious. you need to not equate Marxism with Communism. Define your terms. you’ll be a better writer for it. and being pro-free markets isn’t being very objective/moderate.

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By: DDeb

DDeb — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 17:27:10 +0000

Many of the respondents have sent entries that reflect loyalty to a fascist party, and reminds me of Bob Dylan’s famous line: “How many times can a man turn his head pretending he just doesn’t see?” Of course blind support to the CPIM has over the past 30 years given enough dividends to the party’s supporters, and that’s enough cause for many to close their eyes on the state violence at Nandigram and Singur. Of course the justifiers have never visited Nandigram and talked to the villagers there after the massacre, ever – just as none of the ministers have dared to visit the place till date.

Unless you believe “whatever my party does must be sacrosanct”, it’s impossible to justify (a) raping 10 women, ripping children by the legs and killing 14 men because they refused to give up their land, (b) vituperating Medha Patkar, Arundhati Roy and all intellectuals – including Sumit Sarkar and Tanika Sarkar – whoever spoke against the state-sponsored brutality, and (c) shooting bullets and bombs at Nandigram from Talpati across the canal every day, a fact that anyone can witness if one wishes to stay in Nandigram for half a day – anyday.

I urge all decent communists to visit Nandigram just for a day (I will assure all security to them), because I witnessed the witnesses of victims at the People’s Tribunal held on 26-27 May 2007. I also witnessed the abysmal morals of CPIM party cadre when Medha and others were blocked from entry into Nandigram in April. I am ashamed here to mention that on the day of Medha’s trip to Nandigram, the male cadre lined up on the road to put down their pants, while a local leader was shouting at their women cadre to “Lift! Lift!” their sarees to show their “leftist” bottoms to the “outsiders”. To our relief, the women failed to obey their leader, demonstrating that feudal good sense still can prevail over party commands amongst the party supporters…. I hope the loyalists follow their women’s example.

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By: emgeez

emgeez — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 06:35:30 +0000

Three cheers to Aby & Rohan!!

By: sunny

sunny — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 08:27:01 +0000

@aby:
“Apologies to all for the innumerable spelling and grammatical mistakes in the above. I clicked submit by mistake, before checking the contents.”

And no apologies for ….everybody knows what i mean!!

By: sunny

sunny — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 07:50:22 +0000

hey guys …
mamta banerjee is asking for a solution at yahoo answers …plz VOICE ur CONCERNS directly….and make a post of what you wrote there….

http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Aj6CnWNt_4ElZnPWEQFJ2ziQHQx.?qid=20070320204453AAsbDgV

mamta:
“How can Agriculture and Industry grow together, not one at the cost of the other? “

By: Seriously Sandeep

Seriously Sandeep — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:34:01 +0000

Is the Left on its Last Legs?…

I’ve purposely refrained from writing anything on the Nandigram issue apart from merely linking to stuff. It’s not just that other bloggers have shared excellent thoughts about it but I’d rather watch just how long the drama, with all…

By: INI Signal - » Is the Left on its Last Legs?

INI Signal - » Is the Left on its Last Legs? — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:32:02 +0000

[...] I’ve purposely refrained from writing anything on the Nandigram issue apart from merely linking to stuff. It’s not just that other bloggers have shared excellent thoughts about it but I’d rather watch just how long the drama, with all its turns, will last. I mostly want to watch if Nandigram will set the tone for West Bengal’s liberation from the Red Grip. [...]

By: Aby

Aby — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 05:42:11 +0000

@Debkumar
Spelling mistake Read “omay” as “company”