If you have come to this post in a glimpse to find answers to the recent terror attacks in my city let me tell you in the every first line that this post like many other post only asks questions, raises issues and hits back hard on our so called politicans.

          Of all the posts, articales and messages that I have come accross me for the last four days, all in one voice ask questions, raises issues about the loopholes in our system either political or security. Everyone in one way or the other fails to give any concrete response and solution to the problem. One of the post which i have read asks some Messiah of the hour to stand up and lead the nation, but fails to really make a point with the message that can actually make the Messaih to stand up and lead.

         Leading the nation from Front is the major concern with our political class for a decade or so. Be it any party leadership is the clear set back for all of them. In this our of grief in which the nation is today Ruling party is busy with saving its ass and the opposition is engrosed with pointing fingers. One of the most pathetic display of concern by the parties have been to put up Hoardings in the city displaying Politicians with our Martyns Heroes who have laid their lives in the line of duty, the political class cannot be more degrading than this. Because of such behaviour the political class have lost the confidence of the Indian public.

       People say vote and bring about change but whom to vote the Question presist, when in our last corporate election I had voted for a new party hoping to get some change in the system but it entailed that they were even worser dividing the nation on the lines of regionalism.

      So the question even stays whom to vote or better why to vote.

 

Left in India is very powerful for the time being but Leftism at the international map is a marginal force .

Leftist are still convinced that Marxism as a philosophical argument was a very effective tool for social change but its practitioners have been responsible for its demise.

According to me Indian Left are honest and committed bunch of politicians but are unwilling to look inward , to find out what is wrong with Marxism in theory and in practice.

That is the fundamental reason for their unambiguious approach towards Nuclear deal, the consequent of which might result in instability at the centre and lead to early elections . For me this is very surprising as the Indian Left were the only communists apart from Chairman Mao who realised the ground realities and accordingly experimented with Marxism .

Indian communists were also very pragmatic . They had no problem in becoming part of a feudal society with ultra modern state structure . Despite being ideologically convinced that Indian state is semi-capitalist in nature, democracy a facade they joined mainstream politics , did not go underground to launch a movement to overthrow anti-working-class-state- apparatus as Marxists did in Nepal . I am not talking about the fringe players like Naxals or Maoists who call CPM and others as Sarkari Marxists . In fact they were so successful in their approach that in 1957 they created a history when they formed the first democratically elected communist government in Kerala. And E M S Namboodaripad became their first leader to become Chief Minister . It’s a different thing that in the implementation of their government policies at the state level they became so radical that central government dismissed their government .

Despite being dismissed they did not waver from their path , they did not leave mainstream politics , they continued taking part in democratic set up , remained a powerful block , kept occupying opposition space , contested elections , and as they got opportunity formed communist governments in West Bengal , Kerala and Tripura . And gradually they become so glued to the system that CPM even accepted having functional relationship with ultra conservative forces like Jansangh in mid seventies and with BJP in late 80s .

But as success has a self destructive logic . CPM in its pursuit to power lost its revolutionary fervor and became a conservative force which did not try to redefine its ideology with a pragmatic approach to Indian society and accordingly did not re-strategise its vision and policies . It got trapped in it own Jurassic park . So when BJP discovered aggressive Hinduism and backward leaders radicalised caste politics, CPM did not have an answer to it rather they continued indulging in rhetorics . They were not even willing to understand that caste is a reality in Indian society . They were still caught in the class web . For them Ayodhya movement was only a by product of nationalism and an urban phenomena . They failed to understand that Ram Mandir movement could also be a search for a militant identity for a section of Hindus.

Now when all three new militant reflexes of Indian society i.e assertive-caste-identities, aggressive-hinduism and liberal - market-forces-creating-ultra-confident-class are consolidating their political grounds Prakash Karat is still speaking a language which is alien to them and so in direct disconnect with these aspiring sentiments.

I don’t buy this argument that Karat is opposing nuke deal because he has been told to do so by China .

His problem is that at the ideological level he is convinced by old Marxistdogma that it’s a trap laid by Imperialist America to colonise strategic Indian interest and at the political front he believes that Muslims will not vote for CPM if it is seen favouring nuke deal meaning perceived anti-Muslim America. This dual logic has two inherent contradictions . One , America is no longer the same Capitalist nation and world is no longer captive to communism vs capitalism logical divide . At the normative level communism can no longer boast of the final victory for the struggling working class which was the single most inspirational motivating factor in their fight against oppressive capitalism . Communist models all over the world have proved to be equally repressive and anti -freedom to common man . And at the empirical level world has seen disappearance of communist states one after another without any resistance in late 80s and early 90s .

Iraq war has made America realise that powerful economy and military might can not win a war . In modern times, defined by interdependent-global-economy and inter-linked-virtual-web-world, winning of minds are more important than winning a strategic battle . America first time in history is defensive and vulnerable as it has lost the moral battle after the attack on Iraq . Emergence of economically and startegically growing China and slowing down of American economy has created more cracks in its armour .

Two, Indian Muslim is now a changed lot . Al-Qaeda style of terrorism has made them a suspect globally and Modi brand of Hinduism has forced them to strategise their political understanding . They have realised that minoritism and secularism is no guarantee for their physical security . So there is no point in living dangerously . It is more important to have a strategic alliance under the gab of silence and surrender with pro-Hindu forces with the intention to extract better benefits for their physical needs and their families .

Unless Prakash Karat realises these new trends, sheds his old mind set, tries to rediscover new ideological moorings he will remain prisoner of the past and keep the country hostage to his whims thereby confining CPM as a party of only three states . I am sure Karat will not like to lament like my professors that they wasted their lives chasing an utopian dream in the age of virtual world.