Vol. XXXV
No. 07
February 13, 2011
Raise Dalit Issues Without Inhibition
MANY a time we hesitate to raise dalit issues under the impression
that this would alienate the non-dalit sections from us. This is
totally contrary to our basic understanding. We would be able to draw
the non-dalit sections to us only by augmenting our strength. If the
upper caste people may get away from us if we organise the dalit
masses, how is it that Brahmins vote for the BSP?
This was the comment made by Jaswinder Singh, a member of the CPI(M)'s
Madhya Pradesh state secretariat, while concluding the two-day
workshop. He said those who say that class unity may be forged only by
conducting class struggles, are not aware of the realities of our
society. If feudalism is still with us, we do have to fight for its
abolition. Our party programme identifies three enemies and feudalism
is one of them.
Earlier, in the very beginning of the workshop, he had made it clear
that holding a workshop of dalit cadre of the party did not aim at
creating a dalit cell of the party. Such cells are created by
bourgeois landlord parties who want to strengthen the caste system,
not to destroy it. On the other hand, the people's democratic
revolution that we visualise, aims to destroy all the feudal relations
and the vestiges of feudalism, and casteism is one of them.
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