Saturday, November 18, 2006
CPM may be on the wrong track
A commentator on political affairs says: The blatant hard sell of Chinese commercial interests by the Communist Party of India Marxist (CPM) is providing valuable ammunition to its enemies.
By getting overenthusiastic about China with its President Hu Jintao’s visit here round the corner, the Marxists are allowing themselves to be projected as Beijing’s stooges, a charge that could cause them incalculable political harm. Nationalism has remained the main political force over the past century, sustaining even successful Communist regimes. The CPM would pay a heavy cost by getting identified with another country. The scars left by the 1962 war and Chinese involvement in Pakistan’s military build-up makes such a strategy even more suicidal.
This is not to minimise the importance of cooperation between India and China. Nor should the genuine interventions by the Marxists along with other Leftist groups on behalf of the urban and rural poor be ignored. But the CPM would do well not to mix up the two issues because of some dubious ideological loyalties of the past.
IMO: There certainly seem to be issues here. Decent people, Marxist or not, do not want importation of foreign methods and ideas to India which could disenfranchise or disadvantage the poor. There are a lot of international issues, such as the future of French socialism, which looks as if it could be promising at this time, and the UK's so-called 'New Labor' which sounds like it may be becoming a puppet for any vote provider. Hard to see direct benefit from the big money the UK politicos intend to hand to Pakistan other than votes from UK ethnics. But the money may be used to eliminate madrassas. These days of genetic engineering, pigs may indeed fly. Really the UK should be a good bet for socialists. But for the sake of international socialism, China looks a bitter and rather stale pill if CPM want to swallow it, in fact China is beginning distinctly to look like a reactionary capitalist state. The Chinese leaders, not necessarily the people, may be becoming fast the dalmations running under the chariots of the US capitalist warlords. CPM perhaps should take heed of the real time situation, not what it used to be.
By getting overenthusiastic about China with its President Hu Jintao’s visit here round the corner, the Marxists are allowing themselves to be projected as Beijing’s stooges, a charge that could cause them incalculable political harm. Nationalism has remained the main political force over the past century, sustaining even successful Communist regimes. The CPM would pay a heavy cost by getting identified with another country. The scars left by the 1962 war and Chinese involvement in Pakistan’s military build-up makes such a strategy even more suicidal.
This is not to minimise the importance of cooperation between India and China. Nor should the genuine interventions by the Marxists along with other Leftist groups on behalf of the urban and rural poor be ignored. But the CPM would do well not to mix up the two issues because of some dubious ideological loyalties of the past.
IMO: There certainly seem to be issues here. Decent people, Marxist or not, do not want importation of foreign methods and ideas to India which could disenfranchise or disadvantage the poor. There are a lot of international issues, such as the future of French socialism, which looks as if it could be promising at this time, and the UK's so-called 'New Labor' which sounds like it may be becoming a puppet for any vote provider. Hard to see direct benefit from the big money the UK politicos intend to hand to Pakistan other than votes from UK ethnics. But the money may be used to eliminate madrassas. These days of genetic engineering, pigs may indeed fly. Really the UK should be a good bet for socialists. But for the sake of international socialism, China looks a bitter and rather stale pill if CPM want to swallow it, in fact China is beginning distinctly to look like a reactionary capitalist state. The Chinese leaders, not necessarily the people, may be becoming fast the dalmations running under the chariots of the US capitalist warlords. CPM perhaps should take heed of the real time situation, not what it used to be.
# posted by uv : 6:13 PM
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