[Assam] From Tehelka

[Chan Mahanta]

I don't know Pradip Gogoi from Adam, Ram, even though he is a fellow 
Jokaisukiya from perhaps thirty miles or so from where I grew up. I 
don't know under what context he said what he did. But regardless of 
their political creed NO revolutionary could deny Castro his due 
place in the history of revolutions. Similarly, regardless of the 
failures ( or successes) of Marxism as a system of governance, no one 
can deny the enormous influence Marx left in the formation of 
contemporary human civilization.

>will there be a Communistic slant in their rule?

*** Even if I were to be in a position to answer such questions, I 
could not have answered such a vague question. What exactly is a 
communistic slant? Is Israel with its Kibbutzes ( Communes) and 
absence of private land-ownership and socialist governance 
'communistic'; fit to be tarred and feathered with such simplistic 
labels ? How did Menachem Begin get rehabilitated as a 
'freedom-fighter', while he was instrumental to blowing up Britishers 
and their installations and was once branded by them a 'terrorist'? 
What kind of cleansing solvent did Begin's followers find to wash off 
his 'terrorist' label?

There is way too much hypocrisy and self-serving piety going on all 
around us today to give such labels any credence at all Ram. 
Particularly by people who are informed and are able to reason.

c-da









At 12:31 PM -0500 8/16/06, Ram Sarangapani wrote:
>C'da
>
>Thanks for sharing that with us. Pretty interesting. Gogoi does have 
>the tenacity and passion - one must give him that, even though I 
>necessarily do not see things his way.
>
>Its is intriguing that his passion for independence is built upon 
>the ideals of Marx and Castro.
>
>The question is, if people like him become leaders of an independent 
>Assam, will there be a Communistic slant in their rule?
>
>Just thoughts.
>
>--Ram
>
>On 8/16/06, Chan Mahanta 
><<mailto:cmahanta at charter.net>cmahanta at charter.net> wrote:
>
>ULFA's Pradip Gogoi in Tehelka:
>
><http://www.fromallangles.com/newspapers/country/india/tehelka.com.htm> 
>http://www.fromallangles.com/newspapers/country/india/tehelka.com.htm
>
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