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Publication: Secular-Right.blogspot.com
Date: April 2, 2006
URL: http://secular-right.blogspot.com/2006/04/marxist-betrayal.html
These are random thoughts of mine based on
previous reading. I do not refer to any specific text per se.
The history of the Marxists in India has been
one of repeated betrayal of the country. They have let India down time and
again when it came to the clash of interests with the Soviet Union or China.
Their political loyalties lay outside.
M.K. Gandhi broad-based the Indian National
Congress to include the teeming masses belonging to all ethnic, caste and
religious groups in the anti-colonial freedom struggle. To quote B.R. Nanda
"From a three day Christmas week picnic of the upper-middle class in
one of the principal cities of India, it became a mass organization with its
roots in small towns and villages". The Indian Marxists never had this
rural base. There's was an urbanized elite leadership.
Stalin entered into a pact with Hitler in
1939. The understanding reached between the two was for Germany to annex western
Poland while the Soviets annex eastern Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania
and parts of Finland. It was a territorial demarcation of war spoils between
Europe's two most expansionist and authoritarian regimes. The Community Party
of India then supported the independence struggle with a series of blitzkrieg
trade union action, shut downs, gheraos, strikes and sabotage which crippled
industrial activity. The railway workers, the sailors, the dockers and the
textile workers belonging to the Marxist trade unions led the strikes. The
intent was to weaken the colonial hold on the Indian economy and open a third
front against Britain given that Stalin and Hilter had joined on an anti-western
platform.
However, Hitler attacked the Soviet Union
in June 1941. German troops had reached the outskirts of Moscow by December
that year. The Soviet Union had suffered unparalleled destruction and did
an immediate policy reversal to join the allied war effort. The Communist
Party of India changed track in tandem. It decried the Indian freedom struggle
as weakening the international struggle against fascism, a movement which
the Marxists had initially allied with. The Communists pulled out of the freedom
struggle. M.K. Gandhi had launched the Quit India Movement in the summer of
1942. The Communists turned informants and helped the colonial authorities
to identify and imprison the entire leadership of the freedom struggle. The
Indian Marxists supported the British in this crucial interlude given the
new Soviet-British alliance against Hitler.
M.K. Gandhi and the Congress hierarchy were
behind bars between 1942 and 1945. The Congress had convincingly won the 1937
elections while the Muslim League had suffered a devastating defeat at the
hands of the Congress in all Muslim majority provinces of pre-partition India
except East Bengal. While the Congress leadership had been imprisoned, Jinnah
was free to organize the Muslim League and strengthen its holds over sections
of the Muslim population of British India. The fortunes of the League rose
between 1942 and 1945. The Marxists meanwhile supported the ideological case
for partition arguing that the Muslim population was entitled to self-determination.
This was interesting given the Soviet Union's own suppression of Muslims in
the Caucasus and Central Asia. Stalin had deported the Chechens and Tartars
to Siberia en-masse!
The British partitioned India in 1947. Pakistan
immediately expelled its Marxists who fled to India!
Nehru, a self-proclaimed socialist, did not
oppose Communist China's annexation of Tibet in 1950. Tibet had an area of
471,700 square miles. China was then fighting the United States in the Korean
war and Nehru could have easily retained the colonial-era Indian military
presence in Lhasa and consolidated it further in order to ensure Tibetan independence.
Furthermore, Nehru supported Peking's cause in the United Nations. China responded
by annexing the 15,000 square mile Aksai Chin in what remained of Indian-held
Kashmir in 1957. Pakistan had earlier annexed Baltistan, Gilgit, Hunza and
Muzafarabad that had an area of 32,000 square miles.
The Nehru administration was not even aware
of that development in Aksai Chin while his Marxist Minister of Defence, Krishna
Menon continued to support China in international fora such as the United
Nations. Taiwan then occupied China's seat at the Security Council. The Indian
Marxists later defended Chinese actions in Aksai Chin pointing out that enclave's
historical links with Chinese-held East Turkestan, now called Xinjiang.
China invaded the North East Frontier Agency
with an area of 32,000 square miles in 1962 and then quite as suddenly withdrew
its troops. The road to Assam was open and Nehruvian India lay prostrate.
The Indian Marxists defended Chinese actions on the alleged grounds that NEFA
had historical links with Tibet. Not one of them questioned China's initial
hold on East Turkestan and Tibet on historical grounds to begin with. China
had no valid territorial claim on either under modern international law. China
detonated the nuclear device in October, 1964. The Indian Marxists welcomed
that step as part of the global war against international imperialism! Yet,
when India exploded its second nuclear device in May, 1998, the Indian Marxists
opposed that as an unnecessary belligerence.
The Indian Marxists have repeatedly let India
down. They do not have Indian national interests at heart. They currently
control the Departments of History in major Indian universities such as JNU.
With that platform, they are able to twist the past to suit their nebulous
aims in the present. I refer here to Habib Irfan, Harbans Mukhia, K.N. Panikkar,
R.S. Sharma, Romila Thapar and Sarvapalli Gopal. Other individuals such as
Arundhati Roy, Barkha Datta, Brinda Karat, Mani Shankhar Aiyer, N. Ram and
Praful Bidwai in India, and Meera Nanda, Sarmila Bose, Sugato Bose and Sumantro
Bose overseas continue to occupy the intellectual and media space in a disproportionate
manner. They leverage this vantage point to weaken India!
