All those capitalist gentlemen in the media , printed and electronic , who were revelling in inventing new phrases to malign Karat and praise MMS should answer one question: where is this Congress taking Indian democracy to ? Those who boast of Indian or American or British democracies glibly forget one thing : when the ruling capitalist class are defenceless and cornered, they flout all rules and save the situation with money, muscle or gun powder. In India we saw it in the early 1990s. Narasimha Rao got out of bribe case narrowly on technical grounds, though the entire country knew he had bribed the JMM. In Kerala and so many other states Congress has dismissed state govts, at their sweet will not caring a fig for democratic decency. Can we count the number of democratically elected govts. toppled by the CIA in bloody coups ? We now see capitalism playing greater havoc by undermining Indian people’s will with money.
I repeat, MMS and his friends are the greatest abettors of Naxallits and Maoists.
RE:Whither the China and Karat bashers ?
by Prem Mohan on Jul 23, 2008 08:47 AM Permalink
You talk in the language of the cold war. Marxism/socialism/communism are dead ideologies and communists are widely seen as power hungry monsters. Any government at the centre will have to further market oriented reforms in order to feed over a billion people. Otherwise, we will all become like PSU/government employees: incompetent, rude, lazy and corrupt.
RE:Whither the China and Karat bashers ?
by S R Ganguli on Jul 23, 2008 09:44 AM Permalink
What happened in Parliament is not a fight between Capitalism and Marism or semantics. This is shameful that MPs did not vote on an important issue but they were lured into it by money changing hands. As for the Deal the people are in the dark. When shall cross the break-even? What is the cost-benefit ratio, say in terms of next 5 years? What will be India's position vis-a-vis China? Do you know that US did some evesdropping on India from the Chines soil? Will the US back India against China or Pakistan, considering that the US foreign policy is always steeped in double standards?
