The Communists are fed up with agitations and unruly behaviour of not only the opposition parties in the two Communist ruled states in the country, West Bengal and Kerala but also their own cadres in some cases. The beleaguered Chief Minister of Bengal is doing his best to appease the feisty leader of the opposition so that the Tata car project does not shift out from his state. The whole country is looking forward with interest to see the outcome of the dealings and wheeling! The Chief Minister admits that he is so helpless when his own party members attack him for his policies which are against the Party ideology that he keeps mum!! Mum indeed!!
In Kerala, a top Communist leader who is also a member of the Central Politburo recently lashed out at the members of one of their unions who regularly harass ordinary people and industry by demanding their right to load/unload materials from trucks trains etc and charge excessive rates for the work done or not done. What is objected to by the leader is the demand for asking for wages for work not done! The Malayalam term used for this is “Nokku kuly”, which may be roughly translated as “wages for watching”. If you need the services of a porter you will not find one easily, because most of the unionist comrades would be hiding. Just invisible! But remember, they are watching! The moment you somehow manage to load/unload your things with the help of friends, relatives etc, union leaders would materialise from thin air and demand money for the work someone has done which deprived them of their rights to do the work, for which they are entitled to!! They can be very argumentative!!
Recently a friend visited Alapuzha in Kerala on some business matter and he narrated a
Bizarre experience encountered there. He did not carry any baggage because he was not planning an overnight stay there and he travelled by bus from Kochi to Alapuzha a distance of 80 KM or so. As soon as the bus reached Alapuzha and the man got down from the bus, some porters surrounded him and asked him to hand over the luggage. The man did not even carry a brief case and therefore he escaped lightly. Later his client in Alapuzha told him that he was fortunate that he got off lightly because at times a weary traveller would have to face a volley of questions from the gang. They could ask questions like “Why have you come without baggage?”, “How long is your stay in the city without baggage?” etc. If you are lucky, after answering these few questions you may be freed to proceed. But if they suspected that you were hiding a small bag inside your shirt or banyan or underwear, there is a possibility that you would be asked to “show”! Show indeed!! And, if you got down from the bus with a small bag and thought that you could walk away swinging handbag, you are probably in for a surprise. The gang would surround you and ask you a few more questions such as “What do you think we are standing here for?” “If you people carry your own things, how do you think we are going to feed our families?” etc. If you insist that you do not want to hire the services of a porter to carry the bag, they would say, “OK, but you pay the porter charges all the same, because our livelihood depends on income from carrying luggage, and you can not deprive us of our rights”. That is it! That is what the spread of Communism has done to Kerala. Everyone is conscious of his RIGHTS. It is a moot point that others have rights too!!
In Kolkatta the labour are similarly highly conscious of their rights. In a factory, when the production was disrupted due to power cuts the gardener in the compound who was mowing the lawn simply dropped his tools down to celebrate the power cut!! Communism gives you freedom to celebrate and enjoy at others cost! That is Communism for you.
Communists talk of proletariat, the rights and romance of the proletariat but you would find hardly any of their leaders belonging to the proletariat! They all came from aristocracies! And most of them live like aristocrats, all the time belittling the aristocracy. From Karl Marx to Stalin and Lenin to Yeltsin and Milosivic who did not want luxuries of life? They all had their luxuries but could not stand anyone outside their beliefs to live in luxury!
For the Communists there is no God. Religion is the opium for poor ignorant masses. But, in politics Indian Communists are selective in attacking religions. Like the Congress, Communists bend backwards to please the Muslims. They attack the Hindu outfits to please the Muslim League. Some of the Communist historians go to any length to show the Hindus in bad light. One historian has even found that Somnath temple was never a Shiva Temple. The idols in the Somnath temple were originally of some Pagan Gods of the Arabs which the Muslim invaders destroyed!! Why should the Hindus sweat for that? WOW!!
