Prime Minister Mahoman Singh has called them "the single biggest security challenge ever faced by our country". Fourteen Indian states are struggling to battle the insurgency waged by their 20‚000 fighters. Over the last three years some 2‚600 people have died by their hands. These are the Naxalites‚ the source of India’s scariest security challenge. Naxalism. It is a topic few in the West are aware of. The international media lends little attention to India’s Maoist insurgents‚ choosing
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MARXISM IN CHHATISGARH It is ridiculous to leave the mass of unarmed tribals to fight the armed Naxalites without weapons in the name of Salva Judum or any other name. Non-violence could be an effective weapon to fight against a civilized and democratically elected government‚ but it could prove farcical and suicidal in dealing with the killing Naxalite gangs. Maoists in Chhattisgarh have admitted that 500 of their rebels have been killed by cadres of anti-Maoist militia Salwa Judum movement in
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IDSA Occasional Paper No. 20 Measures To Deal With Left-Wing Extremism/Naxalism P V Ramana Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses‚ New Delhi he Prime Minister has said more than once‚ and for the first time in October 2004‚ that the Maoist problem is the most serious internal security challenge that the country is faced with. Indeed‚ the seriousness of this challenge has been increasing every year. There has been steady rise in the spatial spread of the rebels‚ over the years. Even
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. NAXALISM: The Enemy WithinPresented by :KomalkamraM.B.A 1st semester 2. About NaxalismThe Naxal name comes from the village of “Naxalbari” in the state of West Bengal where the movement originated.Their origin can be traced to the split in 1967 of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)‚ leading to the formation of the Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist).`Naxalite` or `Naxalism` is an informal name given to radical‚ often violent‚ revolutionary communist groups that were born out of the
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RELEVANCE OF MAO’S THEORIES IN CONTEMPORARY ARMED STRUGGLES There is no doubt that Mao’s works have been‚ are and will be a subject of study for the revolutionaries‚ counter revolutionaries‚ military thinkers as well as historians throughout the world. With the tangible defeat of strong Japanese invaders and relatively strong Kuomintang‚ the world simply could not ignore the fact that Mao’s theories on armed struggle and their practical implications were undoubtedly of par excellence. Particularly
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for one‚ one for all”‚ which in turn creates an ‘us versus them’ philosophy‚ and has been present in Chinese history for hundreds of years. Thus one can deduce that nationalism has greatly driven Chinese history. Was Maoism successful for unsuccessful? I feel that Maoism significantly diminished the quality of life for the peasant communities. In the beginning those communities were hopeful that Mao’s vision for change would improve the peoples ability to feed and support their families by
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Exploring the Concepts of Karl Marx and Mao Tse-Tung Karl Marx believed that in an industrialized society‚ the working class‚ known as the proletariat would revolt and take over the ruling class‚ and would in effect‚ create a classless society. Karl Marx believed this could only happen in an industrialized society. Once it became apparent that the working class would not rise above‚ Lenin intervened and confirmed Marxism obsolete in Russia. Since the late 1920’s the Chinese Communist Party has
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Deng Xiaoping and the origins of Chinese Capitalism The Legacies of the Maoist Era The Chinese communists came to power in 1949 promising two revolutions: a bourgeois revolution (nobility vs. bourgeoisie) followed by a socialist one (bourgeoisie vs. proletariat). The bourgeois revolution was accomplished by the Marxist rulers. The aim was to make China appear as a nation- state. Therefore‚ the population was instilled by feeling of national identity and strong sense of social purpose
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prevented a seemingly inevitable‚ and potentially disastrous civil war emerging within China. Therefore it enlightened the quantity of political deliberation that needed to be reinvested into the economic structure‚ foremost the authoritative return of Maoism. The remonstrations ‘enabled the government to correct and develop’ the system where it was most flawed‚ as Gray argues‚ for instance‚ it provided the government with a robust need for increasing censorship and expurgation‚ which could now be legitimised
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This essay will examine the centralization theory that is considered a norm in politics and compare it to the decentralized society of Anarres in “The Dispossessed”. I will especially look at the way that societies differ across the political spectrum and not just between the worlds of Urras and Anarres. I will also examine the role that technology plays in politics today‚ and the way that technology is deep-rooted in our society. With this point‚ I will not alone look at “The Dispossessed” but also
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