Here are some of his quotes. It is very difficult to translate his poetic malayalam, but still here are some. 1. A yawn can kill a great idea. 2. When elephant realises its strengh the mahout dies. 3. War is hysteria of history. 4. What we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history! 5. Art is a process in which we give form and meaning to this formless, meaningless world. 6. TO HAVE SOMETHING DIFFERENT is a market strategy of the bourgeois system. 7. Our existence is not for the sake of culture, instead culture exist for us. If it is harmful to us, or if it is decadent then we should abandon that culture. 7. Fascism reverts history. 8. You tell a beautiful lie and you call it imagination. 9. We give more importance to Asoka's repentance than the lives of thousands of men who died in Kalinga battle. 10. Our faith is sacred but other faiths are just superstitions. 11. Modern capitalism streams in through funding agencies and they target our civil societies. 13. Television and Newspaper inundate us with informations. So we have so much of information and so little direct experience. These informations are like conducted tours. 14. These days all non communists are wizards
RE:We lost our Socrates
by bhagat singh on Oct 11, 2007 12:25 PM Permalink
There are some correction Mr.Anfonze 3. War is tool of communist 7. Communism reverts history 9. We give more importance to Lenin's repentance who cold bloodedly killed Czar and his family by using Hungarian prisoners of war. 14. Communists thinks they are wizards
RE:CPI(Marxist) should be renamed as CPI(Muslim).
by JGN on Oct 10, 2007 09:32 PM Permalink
Dear Tathagata Mukherjee, Though the present CPI(M) is no different from the other political parties, we cannot forget the good work done by them. There is alsmost no caste discrimination in Kerala and the working class is able to make a decent living. Even the muslims in Kerala are not as dogmatic as their counter-parts in other parts of the Country. This is the result of good work done by leaders like of EMS.
You fail to understand brother that CPIM HAS EQUATED CLASS WITH CASTE AND THUS HAS DONE SERIOUS DAMAGE TO THEIR IDEOLOGY (whatever discredited its today, damage was done prior to that).
Most of these Marxists were fooled by Soviet Propaganda.
From MN Roy to Prakash Karat. However today's CPIM supporters do it as a profession - making money, raise family.
Go and visit rural West Bengal, supposed base of CPIM. You will find every leader worth his/her name has made big houses, put every member of his/her house into some kind of Govt Job!
Kerala couldn't boast of independent writers, even though it could have had many, mainly because at an young age itself they got sucked into leftist ideology. This was because of a big vacuum left by the freedom struggle, material development in the west and voice of contempt against the local Indian religious belief (systematically and successfully made during the Britsh days by missionaries). People like Vijayan Sir fall into this category. Later in life when these thinkers found the drawbacks of these ideologies it was too late, as the ego got the better of truth. They couldn't disassociate themselves from it and result is a brain drain and narrow outlook in malayalam literature. Hope the future brilliant writers can become independent.
Kerala couldn't boast of independent writers, even though it could have had many, mainly because at an young age itself they got sucked into leftist ideology. This was because of a big vacuum left by the freedom struggle, material development in the west and voice of contempt against the local Indian religious belief (systematically and successfully made during the Britsh days by missionaries). People like Vijayan Sir fall into this category. Later in life when these thinkers found the drawbacks of these ideologies it was too late, as the ego got the better of truth. They couldn't disassociate themselves from it and result is a brain drain and narrow outlook in malayalam literature. Hope the future brilliant writers can become independent.
M N Vijayan was a legendary teacher ! But unlike his colleagues, he taught continuously the society even to the last breath!
The biggest mistake he did in his life is the association with CPIM. Because of that , he had to justify the criminal politics in Kannur. He came out to justify the killing of a school teacher , JAYAKRISHNAN for protecting CPIM. It was a brutal murder committed in a live class room in front of his students in a primary school! Absolute criminal! CPIM has made political mileage using M N Vijayan and he became the biggest enemy to the party when he started to talk against them!
The writer of the above article is also belonging to the same community who support and justify the criminal politics and criminal comrades!
