On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 10:59 PM, Mani A a.mani.cms@gmail.com wrote:
All of the non-left State Governments in India and the Central Govt are essentially being run by the big business and apart from the usual
.. could have been true at some point of time in history, Mani, definitely not now.
Its pointless to blame other governments, because they don't declare themselves to be followers of any particular ideology. There is no common concern in outlook of most such governments.
But wherever governments have been formed based on support from citizens after claiming to be representing a certain form of ideology, the trouble starts when those in power (a) stop listening to sensible messages coming from citizenry, (b) starts identifying themselves with the causes of elite corporates, (c) uses intellectual resources to compete with other political establishments/individuals, (d) design, develop and attempt to execute policies and projects discreetly, and (e) uses organised might to bulldoze counter-opinions.
Most people would be silent if, for instance, left-front rechristens itself to "neo-liberal revolutionary front for individuals" - because then there is no confusion - whatever then the new organisation does conforms to its ideological outlook - building individuals and not communities, helping corporates and not societies/communities, engaging in amusing/entertaining people deviating them from engaging with any political concerns. Its precisely this outlook that necessitates allocation of resources which currently antagonises ordinary people - resources like space, public funds, state's bureaucratic machinery, intellectual support to justify actions or to divert public attention etc
form of struggle, what can be done is to have the FLOSS operating system (along with required s/w for Panchayats) in place... so that adoption can start at the lowest level. I do not see why this is not done already. Surely the ones sitting in villages will find it more difficult to do all the adaptation themselves. The community model is always mighty. ... and above mistakes in policy.
Ordinary people are enlightened ones. They understand pretty fast. What you said is most apt. Go out and speak. Only an extremely vigilant community can help itself now.
Best wishes and regards, CK Raju