The Worker, #6, October 2000
GROWING MENACE OF INDIAN EXPANSIONISMIndian state of late has been stepping up its Indian expansionist design over its neighbouring smaller countries. In the context of Nepal, not satisfied with physically nibbling away Nepalese border land bit by bit, stationing of it's military camp over Kalapani land and building illegal barrage in Laxmanpur, inundating thousands of Nepalese villages. it is trying to create psychological pressure of is domination by hook or crook! Take the instance of an Indian Airline plane that was .hijacked in last December from Kathmandu to Afghanistan. An anti-Nepalese hype was created throughout the drama within it's country and in international news media alleging that Nepalese people were abetting with ISI agents in hijacking the plane. It went to the extent of "identifying" one of the hijackers as a Nepalese citizen which turned out to be a total farce. While it was punishing the Nepalese mass for no fault of theirs, it's foreign minister Mr. Jaswant Singh was accompanying the released "terrorists" in the same plane (as per hijacker's demand) to Afghanistan thus breaking al) rules of protocol! It was obvious the reactionary Indian government was trying to save its skin (of not providing adequate security measure to its own plane) by blaming on weaker small neighbouring country. However the design behind such a hype was a calculated move of Indian expansionist state to gain strategic security points in Nepal and this it got by stationing it's security force right inside the Tribhuvan International Airport. Not yet satisfied with this, it used another psychological weapon: the so-called "Nepalese Game-plan" report that was leaked out in internet just before the visit of Brajesh Mishra, the chief secretary & advisor to present Indian Prime-Minister, to Nepal. It had lists of names from ail walks of life labelling them as being on ISI pay rolls. It had been labelling People's War in Nepal since its initiation as being funded & trained by ISI agents. In fact BJP is so phobic against communism that it has labelled the MLM groups waging People's War in India as ISI agents! In this regard both the reactionary fascist governments of Nepal & India are having one thing in common-both are facing serious challenges from the revolutionary messes In their own countries. In the case of Nepal, the Indian state is using ISI whip for the short term benefit in order to malign People's War in Nepal, for the long term strategy it is brandishing ISI stick to bring Nepal under it's defence-umbrella. In the case of India, Indian state is trying to play ISI card on it's own land to unleash an all out terror on the revolutionary masses of India and also to malign them. It is no wonder that the heads of both the governments at India & Nepal are mobilising their state machinery & resources to suppress the growing influence of revolutionary movements in their own respective countries. While in Nepal, Koirala is desperately trying to woo the Royal Army to suppress People's War there, in India, Bajpai has called the meeting of Home Secretaries of five Maoists affected states to chalk out a unified action against the MLM forces in India.
However, all these developments must not be seen in isolation. With the emergence of American Imperialism as a strong player in South Asia (facilitated by Indian ruling class) the Indian expansionist policy has got a shot on it's arm; The Indian State had always wanted to convert Nepal into another Bhutan. The Nehru-doctrine of expanding India's defence-perimeter upto the Himalayans has been rejuvenated in the name of "Akhanda Bharat" by the present BJP-led government that considers "Himalayas to Kanyakumari" as an integral part of India. This "Akhanda Bharat" concept also serves the interest of American Imperialists, as it facilitates expanding of its market to the rest of South Asian countries via India, America wants South Asia to be secure and stable so that it can execute its business smoothly, Hence it wants Indian State to be its watchdog, No wonder Washington's response to India's concern about "terrorism" in the neighbourhood has been encouraging The establishment of FBI office in Delhi should be seen as a measure to protect its interest in South Asia.
Thus the growing menace of Indian expansionism should also be seen as the expression of American imperialism !n South Asia, hence it becomes all the more necessary to form alliance between revolutionary masses of the world to fight against global and regional domination.
In opposing subjectivism, sectarianism and stereotyped Party writing we must have in mind two purposes first, "learn from past mistakes to avoid future ones", and second, "cure the sickness to save the patient" The mistakes of the past must be exposed without sparing anyone's sensibilities it IS necessary to analyse and criticise what was bad in the past with a scientific attitude so that work in the future will be done more carefully and done better This is what is meant by "learn from past mistakes to avoid future ones" But our aim in exposing errors and criticising shortcomings, like that of a doctor curing a sickness, is solely to save the patient and not to doctor him to death. A person with appendicitis is save-d when the surgeon removes his appendix So so long as a person who has made mistakes does not hide his sickness for fear of treatment or persist in his mistakes until he is beyond cure, so long as he honestly and sincerely wishes to be cured and to mend his ways, we should welcome him and cure his sickness so that he can become a good comrade We can never succeed if we just let ourselves go and lash out at him. In treating an ideological or a political malady, one must never be rough and rash but must adopt the approach of "curing the sickness to save the patient", which is the only correct and effective method.Mao Tse- Tung ("Rectify the Party's Style of Work")Another point that should be mentioned in connection with inner-Party Criticism is that some comrades ignore the major issues and confine their attention to minor points when they make their criticism They do not understand that the main task of criticism is to point out political and organizational mistakes. As to personal shortcomings, unless they are related to political and organisational mistakes, there is no need to be, overcritical or the comrades concerned will be at a loss as to what to do Moreover, once such criticism develops, there is the great danger that within the Party attention will be concentrated exclusively on minor faults, and everyone will become timid and overcautious and forget the Party's political tasks.Mao Tse- Tung ["On Correcting Mistaken ideas in the Party"]We should carryon constant propaganda among the people on the facts of world progress and the bright future ahead so that they will build their confidence in victory At the same time, we must tell the people and tell our comrades that there will be twists and turns in our road There are still may obstacles and difficulties along the road of revolution The Seventh Congress of our Party assumed that the difficulties would be many, for we preferred to assume there would be more difficulties rather than less Some comrades do 110t like to think much about difficulties But difficulties are facts, we just recognise as many difficulties as there are and should not adopt a policy of non-recognition ", We must recognize difficulties; analyse them and combat them. There are no straight roads in the world: we must be prepared to follow a road which twists and turns and not try to get things on the cheap. It must not be imagined that one fine morning the reactionaries will go down on their knees of their own accord. In a word, while the prospects are bright, the road has twists and turns. There are still many difficulties ahead which we must not overlook. By uniting with the entire people in a common effort, we can certainly overcome all difficulties and win victory. Mao Tse- Tung ['On the Chungking negotiations]
Long Live Marxism-Leninism-Maoism !
Long Live the Great People's War!
Long Live the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement !
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