[Assam] From Tehelka

[Rajib Das]

Yes, I agree completely. Labels of any kind don't
amount to much. The Indian political class has only
now started to shed labels. Within those, the ones to
do so thoroughly were the Indian nationalists however.

If the Indian nationalists are green with envy of
China, it is great. At least envy might lead to
something sustainably productive - as opposed to
labeling China's progress as a CIA ploy or some such
thing.

The questions beneath the labels however are
important. 

It is important to know what would be ULFA's agenda in
an independent Assam (and that includes how they will
govern, what "freedoms" would be allowed or
disallowed, how will the government be run etc.).
Wouldn't we all expect to get those answers to form a
complete opinion? And wouldn't we be right, in the
absence of any such answers, in determining that this
would spell anarchy, no less?

And no, the Oracle's (Mike Da) monologue, "Main Hoon
Na" is not enough :-)



--- Chan Mahanta <cmahanta at charter.net> wrote:

> If so, those labels are that much meaningless,
> aren't they?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> At 3:14 PM -0700 8/16/06, Rajib Das wrote:
> >I thought that wasn't really Marxism (or for that
> >matter Maoism) that did it in China - it simply was
> >sheer capitalism.
> >
> >Before they started off on this Capitalist route 20
> >years before India, they were reeling off from yet
> >another one of the Maoist (or is it Marxist)
> >endeavors.
> >
> >
> >>  Also, even though Marxism might not be your cup
> of
> >>  tea or mine, can
> >>  you go tell that to Chinese? A nation way worse
> off
> >>  than India 50
> >>  years back, now has no one going hungry or
> homeless
> >>  or without health
> >>  care, leaving Indian nationalists green with
> envy,
> >>  isn't it?
> >>
> >
> >
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