JULY 16, 1982
Editorial: “How the Ruling Class Divides the Poor: Dalit Minorities, OBCs”.
Marxism aims at removing inequalities. When it comes to India inequality means our hierarchically graded caste system. But our communists (CPI & CPM) have chosen to ignore the stark reality and sought to organise the “poor” against the “propertied class”. To them trade unionism is a step towards class struggle. There can’t be a greater perversion of Marxism than this and the proof of it is that India is nowhere near a “class struggle”. While India is a country of “poor” with wealth accumulated In the hands of less than 10% of the population, if our CPM – CPI interpretation of marxism had been correct by this time the country should have exploded in a bloody “class struggle”. But what we are witnessing in fact is not a class struggle but a struggle between the “poor”. Untouchables, tribals, Muslims, Christians, who constitute the poorest of the poor, are being persecuted by the equally poor “low caste” Hindus mostly OBCs. The ruling upper castes who own the wealth engineer these clashes between two sections of the “poor”. The ruling class divides the “poor” “How to Destroy Caste System”, 1982 DSA).
Who Killed Devaraj Urs?
Devaraj Urs (67) died in Bangalore on June 6, 1982 and with it Karnataka lost its most famous leader. How so healthy a man could die so suddenly? The national press is silent though Congress leaders referred to the “suspicious circumstances” in which Urs died on the lap of his “adopted daughter”, Nirmala Prasad, an ex-IFS Brahmin woman from Bangalore. None others were present. Foul play is suspected. Backward caste leaders suspect a conspiracy. “After my death there will be no more backward class movement”, Urs had said. Upper caste journalists had manufactured all sorts of reports to malign him.
Secret Christian plan to convert 140 lakh Hindus: The RSS official weekly, “Organizer” (June 20) “discloses a multi-million rupee US-financed scheme of the Catholic church conversion plan”. Father lyakkara of the CMI, Dharmaram College, Bangalore, is the man behind this mission, it says.
“Letters to editor” from Amrajit Singh, London, Raju Thomas, Madras, P.K. Rajan, Trichy, TN, THP Chentharaserry, Trivandrum, Prof. Abul Qasem, Calcutta, Janardhan Patil, Bombay.
