[Assam] From Tehelka

[Ram Sarangapani]

Exactly Rajib.

That is why Pradip Gogoi's idealogical infatuation with the likes of Marx
and Castro cannot be just set aside.

All we have heard so far is that a group of insurgents want freedom at any
cost. They won't give the people (that they are supposedly fighting for) a
plan, what kind of governance,  or even how they would envision to protect
the state once it is free.

--Ram







On 8/16/06, Rajib Das <rajibdas at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> 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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