India's Marxists Overjoyed by WTC Tragedy

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A season for Marxist follies

 

Patriotism may or may not be the last refuge of scoundrels but

insanity certainly becomes our China-centric Marxists. Otherwise, do

you think anyone claiming to be responsible would have openly

justified the terrorist attacks against the Twin Towers in New York?

The West Bengal CPI(M) leader, the venerable Subash Chakravorty, made

bold to say the other day that his childhood dream to see the Towers

crashed was realized when on September 11 bin Laden's religious

maniacs banged aircraft-bombs against them.

And the surprising part is that none in the Marxist politburo deemed

it right to reprimand Chakravorty. Given that he is a senior member

of the party and has been a senior minister in the Marxist Government

in West Bengal his remarks cannot be lightly dismissed.

 

Indeed, they indicate the craven mindset of the Marxists who publicly

make a great show of despising all things Americans (while privately

craving for all things Americans.) Yet, given the fact that Putin and

Bush were affecting a great show of friendship and that China, the

preferred homeland of Indian Marxists, was going to great lengths to

woo Americans and their dollars, the CPI(M) leaders ought to have

tempered their anti-Americanism.

 

The end of the Cold War and the emergence of a unipolar world with

the collapse of the Soviet Union and the economic decline of Russia

needs must be factored in by the Indian Marxists in their world-view.

Unfortunately, they continue to be more loyal than their masters in

Beijing or Moscow when they miss no opportunity to criticize all

things Americans(while sending their children to the US for education

and employment).

 

Chakravorty was not only guilty of gloating over the fall of the

Towers but he was insensitive to the terrible human tragedy their

crash represented for tens of thousands of people who lost their near

and dear ones under their debris.

 

The media in West Bengal and outside has been amiss in not paying

sufficient attention to the atrocious statement of Chakravorty. It

ought to have condemned in no uncertain terms his boorish remarks and

called for their retraction. Even at this stage the guardians of

Marxist morals would do well to demand an unconditional apology from

Chakravorty. Admittedly, the controversial Marxist is given to say

rather odd things from time to time but his remarks regarding the WTC

were in rank bad taste and must be withdrawn forthwith.

 

Though in a different vein, the utterances of another West Bengal

Marxist are bound to anger most Indians.

 

 

Writing in the Kolkata daily, 'The Telegraph', the other day, Ashok

Mitra, a former minister in the Jyoti Basu Government, virtually

suggested that India offer Kashmir on a platter to Pakistan. Mitra

has for long been advertising his intellectual wares by making out a

case for Indian withdrawal from Kashmir.

Last Friday his theme-song was that " Kashmir is, really and truly,

an occupied territory; Indian military and paramilitary personnel

rule the roost." You can be certain that Mitra's words will be music

to the Pakistani ears and his article in the Kolkata daily will get a

huge display in the Pakistani Press. Maybe his efforts at educating

us Indians about the rights and wrongs of Kashmir would net him

additional financial gain as well. But on whose side is this veteran

Marxist? Certainly from his outpourings he does not seem to be on

India's side.

 

Mitra harps on the UN resolution asking for a plebiscite in Kashmir

and suggests that we have been dragging our feet on holding the

plebiscite because "not even one per cent of the population in the

Valley will vote for the continuation of the formal link with the

Union of India." And then he delivers his punch line regarding

Kashmir being an occupied territory, remarks, as we noted, bound to

be exploited by Pakistan to bolster its obsessive anti-India

propaganda on Kashmir.

 

Even while making an allowance for the fact that academics and

intellectuals deserve ample space to carry on with their cerebral

pursuits there is no justification for the inanities of the two West

Bengal Marxists. That they are mavericks in their own parties is no

excuse for their sordid and unpatriotic remarks.

 

It is not enough for the CPI(M) to suggest that the above remarks of

Chakravorty and Mitra represent their private views. Indeed it is

reflective of the collective Marxist identity in this country that

the party harbours at its top-most echelons members with such a

sickening and seditious mindset. Or maybe being unpatriotic is the

hallmark of the Indian Marxists.

 

After all, who doesn't recall what the Indian Marxists were doing at

the peak of the Chinese assault across the Himalayas in the winter of

1962? Nehru wasn't mad to have confined them inside jail throughout

the Chinese aggression. Yes, they have changed since then in order

only to enjoy the loaves and fishes of office but not changed well

enough to be rid of their pernicious ways of thinking. No wonder they

continue to be on the margins of the Indian polity.