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Indian Communists have now begun to target the Hindus

Indian Communists have now begun to target the Hindus

Author: Jay Dubashi
Publication: The Free Press Journal
Date: February 4, 2003
URL: http://www.samachar.com/features/030203-features.html

Indian Communists have suddenly realised that they have been committing blunder after blunder all these years. They have at last admitted that they were wrong about Subhash Chandra Bose, whom they called a running dog imperialists, that they committed a historic blunder in not allowing Jyoti Basu form a government at the centre, that they were wrong about the Quit India Movement and also about Gandhi and Nehru, whom they called all kinds names.

In fact, they seem to have been wrong about everything that happened in the last 50-60 years. A party that can be serially wrong about so many things should have its head examined, if it has one. Actually, what we are seeing is the last remnants the Communist party. I would be surprised if it lasts another 10 years, maybe 20 at the most. You cannot be wrong about everything important that has happened in this country for the last so many years and yet expect people to take you seriously. What we are seeing are the last days of communism in India, which itself a historic phenomenon. Indian communists have never understood India. In fact, there are people among them, like Ashok Mitra in Kolkata, who argue that there is no such thing as India. They believe or at least argue that there was no India before the British came here and there will be no India after they leave.

The British left over fifty years ago, and India is still here. It is the Communists who will soon disappear, not India. The trouble with Indian communists is that they are not really Indian. The book they swear by is foreign, not Indian. Karl Marx died over a Century ago, but the communists behave as if the poor man were still alive. They are like a tribe whose head died long ago but whose cadaver they still worship, hoping against hope that he will come alive one day and lead them to heaven.

There was a time when Indian communists did matter, but that was due entirely different reasons. They were big force in the trade union movement and there were years when workers ate out of their hands. But after India became free, it was not easy for them to convince workers that Gandhi and Nehru were their enemies. They called these leaders lapdogs of the British', but the workers never accepted that.

The trade union movement is not what it used to be. Liberalisation has knocked big hole in the movement which the communists have not been able to repair. In fact, for the last five years, ever since liberalisation began transforming the economy, most trade unions have been at a loss to know what they should do. Liberalisation has created a new class that has benefited enormously from it. Consumers have also benefited from the surpluses that are being created. The trade unions simply do not know how to tackle this new phenomenon. Although tens of thousands of workers are being thrown out of jobs, there is little the communists can do to staunch the assault. This is true not only of this country, but almost everywhere else. In Britain, trade unions have lost half their membership. Communists were never very powerful in that country but there was a time when two Communist MPs sat in the Parliament. Now there are none. There are a few in France and some in the Communist Fatherland, Russia. But they are like ancient monuments which you visit occasionally along with your children. For all practical purposes, Communism is dead in the West and dying fast in India. Of course, you still have Communists in China but they are of ersatz variety. They are communists because the party that rules China is nominally communist. But it is a funny kind of communist party. The children communist leaders who rule China are big businessmen and make more money than the Bushes and Rockefellers of USA. fact, the President of China wants businessmen to be made members of the communist party. He says that they are legitimate section of the Chinese society and there is no reason why they should not join the communist party. The collapse of Soviet Russia completely finished Indian communists. Most Indians did not know much about the real state of affairs in the Soviet Union and genuinely believed that the Soviet fatherland was going great guns. After all, were not milk and bread cheap in Russia? You could also travel almost free on the Mosocw underground which had more marble than our own Taj Mahal. Newspapers sold in millions and were almost given away free. In fact, most things were free including education right up to the University level, hospitals were free, housing was virtually free and there were pensions for everybody.

Indian workers and the middle class really believed that Russia was a paradise, except for Capitalists. They also believed that Russians lived better than Americans. In America, everything cost money and jobs were not plentiful. You actually had to work to make money. In Russia, the state gave you everything even if you didn't work. Your basic needs were taken care of, and the state really looked after you.

It turned out that this was all bunkum. The state was actually broke and could get by only by cooking books. It had atom bombs and missiles and everything else including tanks and naval ships but it had no food, which had to be imported. But since it did not earn dollars, imports were not possible. Only the leaders lived well in their Dachas; but for the common man, it was living hell. Since Indian workers do not trust communists anymore, the latter had to find a new enemy. Instead of fighting Capitalists, Indian communists have now decided to fight Hindus. They believe that Hindus are the worst enemies of India, since they are communal. The very fact that Hindus want to call themselves Hindus, signifies that they are communal in outlook. And since communists do not believe in God, they also do not believe in Hindus who worship so many Gods. So Surjit & Co now busy fighting Hindu communalists with the same energy and force they used to fight Tatas and Birlas. In the process, they are aligning themselves with Sonia Gandhi, who happens to be a foreigner. This, they say, does not make any difference, since they do not believe in this insider-outsider business and Sonia Gandhi is as good an Indian as, say,Surjit or Sitaram Yechuri. According to them, Hindus are the biggest enemies of Hindustan, which does not really make sense, but when did anything the communists said make sense? Ten years from now, when there will be only couple of hundred communists in India, they will say that they committed a big blunder when they called Hindus, 'communalists'. This will be blunder No 12 in their long list of blunders beginning with Gandhi. They will say Hindus are as good nationalists as Subhash Chandra Bose and they are really sorry that they should have spoken ill of them.

It matters very little what the communists say because most Indians will have forgotten all about them by that time. Who remembers communists in America or even in Russia? They are museum pieces. And they won't be remembered in India either.

The trouble with communists is that, like Muslims, they have lost touch with the real world around them. They lead an incestuous existence and shun contact with the real world. They go by their book, which has itself become outdated. The trouble with Muslims is also that they spend too much time in Madarsas and shun the real world. They too live by the book, forgetting that the word is passing them by. They get enraged when they come into touch with real world, as the men who blew up the World Trade center did when they first came to the United States. They simply could not believe their eyes and blew up the whole thing. The communists did the same thing or will do the same thing, when confronted by the real world around them.

The real world is not in Das Kapital or in the Quran. The real world is around you and changing all the time. Marx's theories were woven around the Victorian world of the 19th century, but that world dead and we are now in the 21st Century. Things are very different now, even in those areas of the economy which Marx dealt with in his analysis. His analysis may have been relevant at the time but those times were different. Unfortunately, the communists are unwilling to admit this.

Why was Jyoti Basu & Co wrong about Subhash Chandra Bose? Bose certainly was not a running dog of Nazis and Fascists. Actually, it was Soviet Russia and its dictator, Joseph Stalin, who had signed pact with Hitler, which the communists over here had praised to the skies. Bose was fighting for his country, which is not what you can say about the Commies. It has never been clear to me who the communists are fighting for now.

Take the present situation. The market economy has completely changed the equation between labour and capital all over the world. In India, workers are losing their jobs and many have committed suicide. But you don't find communists doing anything about it, apart from appearing on TV shows, which have become the beginning and end of their anti-liberalisation movement.

Public Sector units are being closed down, even profitable units. But the communists are sitting on their haunches or appearing on TV shows. Some sectors like banks and insurance are monopolised by communists. It should be easy for the communists to shut them down and upset the government's applecart. Some of their leaders sit in the Parliament, but they have done nothing. The communists say that they will deal with all this when they come to power. But they are never going to come to power, either in this country or anywhere else. The communists have betrayed so many people in the past that their credibility is low. Nobody trusts them. The workers certainly don't. The chances of communists coming to power in this country are infinity to one, which means never. So the argument that they will deal with their enemies when they come to power is bogus.

The communists should take a long holiday from their TV shows and sit down and do some thinking about why they are being disowned on such a massive scale. They need a new Karl Marx and new Das Kapital. Instead, they are behaving like Groucho Marx and making big fools of themselves. But what do you expect of people who have been wrong so often in the past, not once but again and again?
 


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