[A-List] "Please, please have some regard for those who feel that socialism is not terrorism, but humanism"

["Yoshie Furuhashi" <critical.montages@xxxxxxxxx>]

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'Misrule By Gun'
'...the terror practiced yesterday at Nandigram fills me with dread
and disappointment...Please, please have some regard for those who
feel that socialism is not terrorism, but humanism; and misrule by gun
will not be the rule of the Left in State authority' ......
V.R. Krishna Iyer
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Letter From Justice V.R.Krishna Iyer to Prakash Karat on Nandigram

URGENT
March 15, 2007

My dear Prakash Karat,

I adore you as the top leader of the Marxist Party even as I hold Com.
Jyoti Basu as a creative wonder of the Communist Marxist Party. As you
know, I remained in power with the Communist Government in 1956 in
Kerala under the charismatic Chiefministership of EMS, the great
Leftist thinker. But alas!, in West Bengal things are murky,
capitalism is happy, poor peasantry is in privation and deprivation,
if newspaper reports throw light on events objectively. We, in 1957,
came to power by the ballot and rarely, if ever, used the bullet, with
the result the police violence was hardly an instrument against the
peasantry.

Look at the contrast. The brutality and bloodshed, at the instance of
the police force is now bulleting of humble humanity. I had and have
great hopes that the Marxists if in power, will rule with
compassionate ideology and win votes and people's co-operation beyond
party barriers. But to my horror, the terror practiced yesterday at
Nandigram fills me with dread and disappointment. The illusion of
exploitative power has led the ministry to govern by the gun. The
consequent bloodshed demands your urgent attention and commands the
party's authority to arrest the frequency of bloodshed policy and
police barbarity. Sri. Sumit Chakravartty telephoned me last night
about the police misuse of firepower. If true, I protest and entreat
you and the party to take immediate action and restore the basic
proposition that Communist Government is not power with violent
weapons. And action at party level must be taken if governance over
humanity is for the benefit of the peasantry. I am sure, thousands
like me will be shocked by the Nandigram incident. Please, please have
some regard for those who feel that socialism is not terrorism, but
humanism; and misrule by gun will not be the rule of the Left in State
authority. Do forgive me for expressing my strong feelings with the
expectation that the Left Administration believe and practice as a
fundamental for the humble people, not for the proprietariat with the
brute force of the bullet.

With high regards,
Yours sincerely,

(V.R. KRISHNA IYER)

To
Sri. Prakash Karat
General Secretary
Communist Party of India (Marxist)
New Delhi
--
Yoshie