How is the fascism of the Sangh Parivar going to be utilised for capital?
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We are caught in a false debate in which the reality is presented in
an erroneous perception. Narendra Modi, the perpetrator of 2002 carnage
is counter posed with Mr. Modi the “development leader”. We call it a
false debate, since for us, who have lived and grown in Gujarat over the
past five decades the two aspects are actually the same – that of
fascist. And we use the label of fascist for Modi with utmost
seriousness and with full awareness of what the term involves. Of
course, we have a different situation in India today, compared to Italy
or Germany in the 1920s and 1930s. Then, bourgeois parliamentary
democracy was not too deep-rooted in those countries. By contrast,
despite the efforts of Maoists on the extreme left and fascists on the
extreme right, parliamentary democracy has struck considerably greater
roots. This has had implications for the far left as well as the far
right. Our concern today is the far right.Since the Sangh Parivar has been consigned by fate to operate within ‘bourgeois democracy’ for a far longer time than it had originally envisaged (in 1947-48 it had clearly planned for a fairly swift grab for power, creating a ‘Hindu Rashtra’ analogous to Jinnah’s plan for a ‘Islamic State’), it has been compelled to split its operations. The BJP, as the electoral arm, has to look “moderate”. Of course, it is “moderate” only if one argues that a hyena is moderate compared to a wolf-pack. One should remember that the Mr. L. K. Advani, hailed these days as a “Statesman”, was seen as aggressive as against the “moderate” Mr. Vajpayee back in 1989-1992.
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