Last month, quietly, unannounced, Arundhati Roy decided to visit the forbidding and forbidden precincts of Central India’s Dandakaranya Forests, home to a melange of tribespeople many of whom have taken up arms to protect their people against state-backed marauders and exploiters. She recorded in considerable detail the first face-to-face journalistic “encounter” with armed Maoist guerrillas, their families and comrades, for which she combed the forests for weeks at personal risk. This essay was published on Friday in Delhi’s Outlook magazine. Arundhati Roy made the pictures in this 20,000 word essay available exclusively to Dawn.
The following was first posted on Dawn.com. The Partisan urges all readers to give it close attention and wide circulation. Roy's essay can be read at the link below:
http://kasamaproject.org/2010/03/21/walking-with-the-comrades/
Friday, March 26, 2010
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well you won't know if class reconciliation would work or not unless it was tried for a long time.
Also how can the workers take over the entire nations of the world without using forced invansions (impreailism) from pre-existing socialist/communist countries?
Bakunin: might have praised Marx at one stage as your quote suggests but he later split from the first international and along with other anarchists crticized Marx.
Also what good will those revoultions do in India and Neapal?
The communists (maoists) will simply take over backwards largely impovished countries that were raped by capitalism...And they'll ruin them even more.
I can know if class reconciliation won't work because, as I said, different classes are always antagonistic.
They can take over by giving genuine aid to grassroots communist movements within other countries, and sending troops to help out in ongoing armed struggles for national liberation.
Way to be pessimistic. The Maoists won't ruin those countries at all. In the areas that were under Maoist influence in India, they built roads and did their best to make sure every tribal got to see a doctor. That is a lot better than what they had before.
In Nepal, under Prachanda, inflation wasn't as bad in Nepal as it is now that he is gone. Plus, the Nepali Maoists enjoy a tremendous amount of support from the people. They want a society under the control of the masses themselves. Why would the people ruin themselves? There is no logic, only venom in your words.
Just because a bunch of ass clowns harassed you on YouTube doesn't mean everything associated with them is bad. It just means they were dogmatists who should be harshly criticized for their individual errors.
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