As corporate bulls- Adani and Ambani- lock horns with each other for influence and control over the political state, we witness a more vocal and rising opposition to the Modi Govt. As this government has promoted Adani group to commanding heights of economy, the sections of corporate have turned hostile to it. They are turning to opposition besides creating-promoting the one like CJP.
Not
surprisingly, they hide their maneuver behind the veil of ‘fight for democracy’
to dupe and mobilise the popular masses behind them. They want to pressure the
Modi government for a compromise.
What are ignited by this maneuver, are but the genuine aspirations of the working people who are bearing the real brunt of the brutal capitalist rule being overseen by Modi at present.
In the last
more than a decade of its rule, Modi government has been exposed as a tool of
big Indian and foreign corporate. Working people enmasse have turned against
its rule and want to see its fall.
In this
popular sentiment, the leaders and parties of the opposition find an
opportunity to stage a comeback to power- not to undermine the rule of big
capitalists, but merely to substitute themselves for Modi in the pilot seat of
the state power. Like Modi, these leaders and parties under them are also tied
to the rival gangs of big corporate, both Indian and foreign, who want to
depose Adani and Modi respectively from the heights of economic and political pyramids.
Behind the calls of defence of democracy, there lie the naked and brutal
self-interests of these corporate sharks who want to takeover the economy and
monopolise the political power but for themselves. Neither the corporates nor
their political agents in the opposition stand for any democracy, liberty or
freedom.
Rahul Gandhi,
Kejriwal, Akhilesh, Mamta, Tejaswi all are proven stooges of big corporate like
Modi and shameless supporters of capitalist rule. The political power in their
hands in the past had been no different than that under Modi today. Out of power now
they are vouching for democracy and freedom.
Rumours are
that apart from the opposition leaders and parties, a faction inside the ruling
BJP opposed to Modi and led by its second line leader, Nitin Gadkari, is also aiding and provoking the agitation while Ambani and
his lobby of capitalists is financing this agitation.
Working
people would get nothing out of the substitution of Modi-Shah combine by
Rahul-Tejaswi-Akhilesh-Mamta-Maya combine or that of Adani by Ambani. They must
fight to depose Modi Government but not for garb of power by leaders of
bourgeois opposition. Besides fighting for exit of Modi, they must consolidate
and fight for their own power. They must strive for a Government of Workers and
Toilers.
The fake left
leaders are directly aiding the bourgeois rightwing opposition in propagation and
promotion of illusion that the goal of the struggle is to defend democracy.
These thugs are on the payrolls of the big corporate. In 2014, CPIM was the
fourth largest party to receive corporate donations.
The calls and
appeals for defence of bourgeois democracy or its institutions like Parliament,
Election Commission or Supreme Court in 21st century, is an outright
bluff on the working people. Neither these institutions nor this democracy or
the right to vote has been of any use to the masses of working and toiling
people.
Till the end
of 19th Century, a struggle for bourgeois democracy still retained
relevance for Tsarist Russia, Manchu China or British India, for the simple
reason that working class was not sufficiently organised to contend for power
independently and in struggle against the bourgeoisie. The slogan for convening
the constituent assembly, still had the steam to propel a revolutionary
movement against the medieval lords or colonialists’ rule.
By the advent
of 20th Century, with emergence of finance capital in the centre of
world economy, strengthening of national bourgeoisie and simultaneous consolidation
of the working class brought the old era to a close. For independently
organised and politically mobilised working class in the backward periphery of
the world, the fight for bourgeois democracy, had lost all its shine.
While in the West,
now the undisputed task before Communist Parties was to undermine the bourgeois
democracies in direct fight for socialism, in the East, the success of the revolution
against combine of native lords and colonialists, implied the political
hegemony of the working class over it growing into its state dictatorship with
victory of the revolution.
The prospect
of domination of the national bourgeoisie would only mean the victory of the
counter revolution and consequently bloody suppression of the revolution and
the working people. The fight for and in defence of bourgeois democracy, lost
all steam for working class, everywhere.
Thus, in the far
East- Russia, China, India- the win for bourgeois democracy was realised through
bloody suppression of the revolution. Crowned by ascendance of Prince Lvov and
Kerensky in Russia, Sun Yat Sen and later Chiang Kai Shek’s Kuomintang in China,
of Congress under Gandhi-Nehru-Patel-Ambedkar in India and Muslim League under
Jinnah in Pakistan, had come on the back of bloody counter revolution, that produced
failed states, inherently hostile to any independent movement of their working
class.
In 20th
century, the question of democracy had thus become integral to the question of
socialism.
It were
Mensheviks in Russia and Stalinists-Maoists in China, India and Pakistan, the
adherents of politically false and historically dejected ‘two stage theory’ of
revolution, who looked at the question of democracy in abstraction and in
isolation from the fight for socialism. In their quest for democracy under the
hated rule of capitalist class, they turned into pitiable drumbeaters for this
rule.
In 21st
century, i.e. more than hundred years after the dashing victory of working
class and socialism in October Revolution, all talk of defence of bourgeois
democracy or its institutions, is not only outdated but outright reactionary from
the standpoint of working class.
Working class
has no stake or interest in defence of bourgeois democracy. It knew well in
advance that the democracy and capitalism were always strange bedfellows who could
not have lived together for long. Capitalist democracy, the veiled dictatorship
of big capitalists, can ensures freedom and liberty only for a handful of big
capitalists to loot and exploit the working people, is bound to degenerate into
its opposite- fascism or some other sort of open dictatorship of capitalist
class. Only thugs can call this rule of big capitalists- ‘democracy’.
Democracy, for the working class means today- Not a fight in conjunction with bourgeois leaders and parties but directly against them. Not a fight for defence of capitalist democracy, but a fight to undermine it. Finally, not a maneuver to assist the leaders of bourgeois opposition to take power but for establishment of the government of working people- a socialist democracy!
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