THE NEVER ENDING RED-ROMANCE


com•mu•nism \'käm-y?-"ni-z?m, -yü-\
n [F communisme, fr. commun common] (1840): a theory advocating elimination of private property b : a system in which goods are owned in common and are available to all as needed

The Indian romance with communism is very rapidly turning into a gory scene.Have the left wing extremists finally declared full scale war on authorities by this "Taliban inspired" diktat on a Govt official in Jharkhand?Or has the CPI(Maoist) lost it completely by disappointing it's long-awaiting-lorn support from India's intellectual sympathizers? This recent act by the red rebels seems as aloof from ideals of communism as Henry Ford was from Chairman Mao and this moment itself draws us into initiation of left-wing extremism in India. The CPI(Maoist) in it's present form came into force on 21st september 2004 by the merger of CPI(Marxist-Leninist)People's war group and Maoist Communist Center(MCC) of India.Although active as a political outfit,it encouraged extremist ideas through guerrilla warfare and protracted arms struggle to create the so-called "liberated zones".Perhaps for the fear of loss of face ,the Indian authorities seriously understate to say that currently in 2009 ,Maoists have a fighting strength of 8000-9000 personnel and around 6500 firearms but there are reports to suggest that their numbers have swelled to 20,000 and witnessing the acts of "horror" in last 2-3 years ,I have very little doubts that it's very true.The case with our country is,here Govt is the problem ,rather being the solution.It has been fighting "Maoists" but never thought of confronting "Maoism",it has been fanning the very cause of left wing extremism in places as Singur,Nandigram and off late Lalgarh. UPA had enough of it and banned CPI(Maoist) on 22nd June 2009 but the status-quo persists as Maoists currently have a formidable presence in 17 Indian states and 90% of internal violence is attributed to left-wing extremists. Hence the situation now is,as Govt remains tied up in its "red tapes" and self-diminutive politics in safe alleys of state and national capitals,Maoist cauldrons are adorned with "kangaroo courts/public courts" that care in the least for laws of the land. Slowly as the egalitarian ,classless and stateless dreams of Marx,Lenin and Mao get trampled under capitalism(which I like to call neo-imperialism for reasons of my own),we citizens of democratic India gaze into a mystic crystal ball to see the future of such people's war groups and it's effects.In this distorted illusion of haves and have-nots and offcourse have-more-than-enoughs one thing is that we as common citizens are a victim for sure,victims of democracy ,victims of our own sordid pasts and victims of a habit of not seeing humanatarian faults under the dark clouds of an egoistic society and irresponsible political class.