Retreat of the Red Tide: Bengali Communists Overthrown
Nice news today. The world's favorite pet communists have been voted out:
The biggest victory was in West Bengal, India's fourth most-populous state, where Congress and the allied Trinamool Congress party won in a landslide after an aggressive campaign that hammered the Communist-led alliance for stagnation, corruption, agricultural malaise and industrial decline.
Opponents had been trying to unseat the Bengali Communists since 1977, and Trinamool's fiery leader Mamata Banerjee said Friday's results reflected a 34-year "freedom struggle" and a "victory for the people."
Bengalis are calling it the fall of their Berlin Wall.
Communists just love pointing out that there were no gulags in Kerala, which is supposedly the big counter-argument to the idea that gulags are a communist design feature, not a bug. You kind of look at them for a while, then you realize they're serious--they think Kerala and West Bengal are great arguments in their favor. I mean, everyone envies Calcutta's social justice and economic development, right?
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Jun '10
Re: Retreat of the Red Tide: Bengali Communists Overthrown
Great news. It's kind of interesting about the two Communist Party dominated states you mention. In Kerala, education is important and many people speak English. But, most well-educated Keralans work outside of the state because there are so few good jobs or companies in Kerala. In contrast to this, West Bengal hasn't emphasized education and few of the average people speak English and the people, if they leave to work outside, are hired for lower level jobs. There is much more visible corruption in West Bengal. These two states represent the two poles of the Communist democratic (somewhat) experiment. Generally, the results are in: society retrogresses. A lot like the inner cities of America where the Left is in charge and has been for decades.
The distinctions are obvious -- I would definitely choose Kerala over West Bengal if I had to live in one or the other.
Re: Retreat of the Red Tide: Bengali Communists Overthrown
Larry Koler:
The distinctions are obvious -- I would definitely choose Kerala over West Bengal if I had to live in one or the other. · May 13 at 8:31am
Me too.
May '10
Re: Retreat of the Red Tide: Bengali Communists Overthrown
Now if we could only vote them out of the Democratic Party.
Jan '11
Re: Retreat of the Red Tide: Bengali Communists Overthrown
Claire, (may I call you Claire it is a name you share with my one year old grand daughter) I am a new Ricochet member. I learn nuances regarding stuff I all ready know about from other Ricochet contributors but you are always showing me things I know nothing about (perhaps I am a bit provincial). Thank you for the growing I do when I read your posts. The struggle for freedom continues. Communism is simply pride gone political.
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