Ravikiran recalls some stuff about cycle rickshaw pullers, the flourishing downtrodden, oppressed by socialist laws. What caught my attention was this (perceptive) observation he makes:
But if ultimately the “socialist” law ends up hurting the poor, it will be retroactively turned into a capitalist one.
The underlined (by me) word actually caught my attention. I’m reading up quite a bit on Communism nowadays, more so on the subject of the damage this
Among others, a valuable method is using the principle of “dead if you do, dead if you don’t.” Ravi’s observation is a suitable illustration of this method. At the risk of repeating, a law is ostensibly enacted to “benefit the poor.” When it turns counterproductive, the fault is not with the law, but somehow lies with the capitalists. In the first place, the law was supposed to emancipate the poor and “punish” the rich.
Lie the blame at someone else’s door. This blame game enables them to impose harsher restrictions on the retrograde, arrogant capitalists by enacting more laws to further curb their initiative/investment/whatever. As I said in an earlier entry, the CPI is worried about the Ambanis’ fight because they’re afraid it’ll leave their comrades with no (or less) money to finance their lofty schemes. Do I even need to say, “hypocrisy?”
Another effective tool in the Communist troll discourse is directly inspired by the Second Prophet aka Lenin: Stick the Convict’s Badge, about which I had briefly mentioned in my book review on Communism. More on this art in a later post.
On 01.11.05 Senthil Kumar says:
I would accept the communists from russia, when there was a true communist era. But I would never accept these fake communists in India. They are here for a profit (as any other political party, but these communists only rob the poor). They do not want the poor to profit from other means. For them the poor has to be poor and that too these poor have to be under their union. So that these fscking communists can show case these poor and get rich. So lets say, India has opened only a very few markets and the effect has been good. So if India opens up a few more market (for example the BSNL, Airlines, Insurance) , what would happen?? These communists would go out of job and hell, how the fsck these communist can secure a wealthy life for their son. No that is not good for the community (atleast not for their family). And that is what these people want. They want to make the poor, poorer. And threaten the society as a whole, so that they can get richer. Show me any communist leader, who does not have electricity. Any communist leader who doesnt have the ultra modern cell phone?? Can you?? Can atleast the communists?? No they cant and they wont, they are busy accumulating wealth.
On 01.15.05 Tushar Saxena says:
What the F*** are you talking about? Accept commie bastards from Russia in the ‘true communist era”? Are you still harboring the view that pure communism actually helps the poor? Please read some real history of the USSR before making such filthy remarks. In my opinion, fake commies are better…at least they are accepting some reforms (hate communism nonetheless). I think the failure of all ‘TRUE COMMUNIST NATIONS’ (according to ur labelling) speaks volumes about the kinds of Commies you are willing to accept.