Nidhu Bhusan Das
I’m a Marxist.
Is it?
Very much.
Where’s your beard?
Is it necessary to have a beard to be a Marxist?
Marx’s bearded. I’ve seen his photo.
Karat, Yechuri, Bhattacharyya, Bose, Konar et al are not bearded, yet Marxists.
You see, they have scored good marks, and you know to-day marks are marx as pictures are pix.So, they are Marxists.
What do you mean?
Karat and Yechuri are JNU alumni, Bhattacharyya’s alma mater is Presidency College, Kolkata.Besides, and he’s two times Chief Minister and long serving state Home Minister. Bhattacharyya, Bose and Konar are superb in letting out streams of invectives against the opposition. Have you heard them speak?
Yes, they declaim and gesture like protagonists in an Elizabethan Revenge Play and win the claps of the neo-proletariats. This is their score.
Who are neo-proletariats?
Oh! You don’t know? Well, they are red capitalists, their henchmen.Anti-Marxists or reactionaries call the henchmen lumpen proletariat. They play a glorious role in keeping the Marxists in power. They are sharp shooters, can make and use bombs. They are an important feature of a ruling Marxist procession and meeting. They are expert in impersonating, booth jamming and rigging polls. They can keep the voters indoors, spare the people of the trouble of coming to the polling booths. All the votes of such people go in favour of Marxists candidates. At least the opposition has such allegations.
The opposition is reactionary.
So, the Chief Minister Bhattacharyya and Chairman Bose call the lady at the head of the opposition a liar and the oppositoion led by her indisciplined and trouble-monger.
Is it true the lady was once mortally wounded by a Marxist street fighter? His name’s Alam?
It’s correct and also right in all senses. Let me clarify. She was in the right against the left led by the Marxists and it was right for the left to try to annihilate her. Also, in the Marxist dispensation Marxists street fighters are allowed the right to do so. In such cases, the constitutional right to life is suspended. No case is filed for such attack.
Well, I am enlightened. Now what will the Marxists do to face the Assembly polls in
2011? Do they believe a change is on the card, as the lady in the opposition claims?
Marxists believe only in Marxism, nothing short of it. Marxism thrives only when the party is in power. So, they will try to retain power. Marxists could be Machiavellians to accept that the end determines the means.
You’re a Marxist because you understand the Marxists.
You’re correct. I know the Marxists around me and their modus operendi.I don’t know what is there in the Das Capital and the Communist Manifesto.That doesn’t matter.
Choreographed Violence
Nidhu Bhusan Das
Witness the dance of violence in West Bengal. You will find it reasonable to believe it is meticulously choreographed. Since the Lokshabha polls the spate of violence continues unabated. No let up appears to be in sight. Bloodshed has been routine. Governance is virtually absent. Constitutional machinery has been rendered ineffective. Government is in place sans governance. An alarming situation prevails. Right to life has ceased to exist. We have an elaborate arrangement for democratic rule in the absence tolerance. The discourse of violence and invectives has replaced debate, dialogue and discussion. Terror looms large ahead of the Assembly polls.
The reason is obvious. We have democracy on the lip and disregard for the demos i.e., the people and their free will. We are afraid of the free and fair expression of people’s will at the hustings. So, we intimidate people, terrorize them with a view to preventing them from the expression of their free will. Yet we boast of our democracy. It is ironical, and we are not ashamed. Coercion and terror cannot be in use to the degeneration of democracy if the ruling party acts in earnest to prevent such misadventure. In fact, the ruling party is often found to use such methods to cling to power where informed and educated public opinion is sought to be relegated to insignificance and the government seeks to be the guardian of the public mind.
Our Chief Minister seems to be more loyal to the party than to the Constitution he was sworn- in to protect. He is in the habit of hurling invectives at the leader of the main opposition, the party which has thrown the toughest challenge in about three decades and a half of their rule during which the economy, education and healthcare and work culture have nosedived. Those accused in murder cases are at large, and the police cannot trace them if they belong to the ruling Marxist party. The Chief Minister is vociferous when he digs at the opposition blames it for all evils, and is tight-lipped even when his cabinet colleague is seen leading a procession of party men armed with bombs and staves.
This being the scenario, the ruler may wield power but loses authority. This is a precarious situation in the state. The rule of law is at stake when the ruler loses authority and the dictum of the Constitution that all are equal in the eye of law is not followed.
Witness the dance of violence in West Bengal. You will find it reasonable to believe it is meticulously choreographed. Since the Lokshabha polls the spate of violence continues unabated. No let up appears to be in sight. Bloodshed has been routine. Governance is virtually absent. Constitutional machinery has been rendered ineffective. Government is in place sans governance. An alarming situation prevails. Right to life has ceased to exist. We have an elaborate arrangement for democratic rule in the absence tolerance. The discourse of violence and invectives has replaced debate, dialogue and discussion. Terror looms large ahead of the Assembly polls.
The reason is obvious. We have democracy on the lip and disregard for the demos i.e., the people and their free will. We are afraid of the free and fair expression of people’s will at the hustings. So, we intimidate people, terrorize them with a view to preventing them from the expression of their free will. Yet we boast of our democracy. It is ironical, and we are not ashamed. Coercion and terror cannot be in use to the degeneration of democracy if the ruling party acts in earnest to prevent such misadventure. In fact, the ruling party is often found to use such methods to cling to power where informed and educated public opinion is sought to be relegated to insignificance and the government seeks to be the guardian of the public mind.
Our Chief Minister seems to be more loyal to the party than to the Constitution he was sworn- in to protect. He is in the habit of hurling invectives at the leader of the main opposition, the party which has thrown the toughest challenge in about three decades and a half of their rule during which the economy, education and healthcare and work culture have nosedived. Those accused in murder cases are at large, and the police cannot trace them if they belong to the ruling Marxist party. The Chief Minister is vociferous when he digs at the opposition blames it for all evils, and is tight-lipped even when his cabinet colleague is seen leading a procession of party men armed with bombs and staves.
This being the scenario, the ruler may wield power but loses authority. This is a precarious situation in the state. The rule of law is at stake when the ruler loses authority and the dictum of the Constitution that all are equal in the eye of law is not followed.
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