ASCENT
OF A NEW LEFT!?
Our good friend Tarek Fatah has equated the
resounding victory of the Aam Admi Party under Arvind Kejriwal in Delhi together
with earlier convincing win by Alexis Tsipiras of a radical left coalition
Syrzia, Greece, and of the still earlier rise of a new left party Podemos under Pablo Iglesias Turrión as the rise of a New
Left on the horizon of world politics offering fresh breezes of hope and relief
to the downtrodden or deprived people and an alternative to the current
exploitative, degrading capitalist order.
May be it is too hopeful a characterization and analysis, but certainly these are
welcome winds in the present situations of acute misery, corruption, plunder of
resources and demeaning of people’s lives by the pro-capitalist establishment
forces the world over. This editor heartily acclaims the victory of the Aam
Admi Party and its energetic and intelligent leader Arvind Kejriwal, though it
would be too hasty to describe him, an avowed theist with the vagaries of a
vote-catching populist, as a new left personality. Certainly, there are several
pro-people measures he and his party proposed in their manifesto and we wish
all success to them against all odds in working in a limited jurisdiction.
However, this editor records his disappointment regarding their somewhat
opportunistic adjustments if not alliances with communal and conservative
forces, especially of the so-called minorities, and refusal/hesitation to
openly and firmly condemn the Charlie Hebdo massacres in France that have
galvanized secular and leftist forces all over the world in a new manner. Be that
as it may, we wish AK would certainly take some pro-people measures to fulfill their
very basic needs and rights before embarking on any grandiose schemes and
without being embroiled in rote things like the Lokpal Bill once again. The
young and active European leaders – Pablo Iglesias of Podemos, Spain and Alexis
Tsipiras of Greece, unlike AK, are avowed atheists and professed
communists/socialists who would like to restructure their countries in a new
humane democratic socialist pattern without in anyway unduly bound by the
trammels of any traditional state socialist policies and perspectives that
spelt the doom of Soviet type socialism the world over. We sincerely wish them also
all success. §§§
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