{"id":1443,"date":"2016-03-15T02:43:56","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T02:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?p=1443"},"modified":"2016-03-17T02:59:25","modified_gmt":"2016-03-17T02:59:25","slug":"sri-lanka-sacred-cow-to-both-us-imperialism-and-social-imperialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?p=1443","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Sri Lanka\u2019 sacred cow to both US imperialism and social imperialism"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"srila\"<\/a>There could be no disagreement on \u2018world socialist\u2019 accusation that articulating Eezham Tamil leadership looks upon appealing to the USA and India for support, despite its previous \u201cimpotent pleas\u201d falling on deaf ears. This section of Tamil polity deserves the attack, as it is still impotent for a global struggle-based polity but argues for posing as victims appealing to the very culprits, which gives the finishing touches to the \u2018counterinsurgency\u2019 agenda. However, the \u2018world socialists\u2019 conditioned by the so-called \u2018Sri Lanka\u2019, created and being propped up by the very imperialists, don\u2019t answer the most crucial question why this \u2018Sri Lanka\u2019 should be a single unit in the global struggle of the world working class, commented Tamil activists for alternative politics.<\/strong><\/p>\n

If it is the Stalinist version of \u2018socialism in one country\u2019 that makes them to think \u2018Sri Lanka\u2019 as one unit, then the world has already seen how the Russian Fatherland nationalism was working in camouflage behind that paradigm.<\/p>\n

If it is sheer geography of the strategic island that makes them to uphold \u2018Sri Lanka\u2019 as a single unit, what theory of \u2018world socialism\u2019 tells them to overlook practical genocide in recognizing geographical units in the struggle of achieving world socialist order?<\/p>\n

All nationalist identities are bad, but \u2018Sri Lanka\u2019 identity alone is sacred. If doing business with geopolitics is the same for the US bandwagon as well as for the world socialists, what difference it makes to the nation of Eezham Tamils?<\/p>\n

If the Sinhala bourgeoisie was always clever in \u2018regime changes\u2019 and playing the game of chosen agents to imperialists, and through them prodding the Tamil bourgeoisie to fall in line, the so-called Left in the island was always misleading the world Left \u2013 both lines ultimately sustaining the Colombo-centric genocidal Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n

Partial in covering up the aggressive corporate and military operations of especially China, and covering up the competitive role it played in the genocide of Eezham Tamils, the world socialists in the island now come up with a vertical ploy of integrating South Asia and rallying the working class across the Indian subcontinent \u2013all starting from \u2018Sri Lanka\u2019.<\/p>\n

The Left in India is prepared to talk about self-determination to Kashmir and that should be welcomed, but \u2018Sri Lanka\u2019 is strategically more sacred to it that it is not prepared to voice for the self-determination of Eezham Tamils.<\/p>\n

In such a scenario, rejecting \u2018Sri Lanka\u2019 is the primary democratic response that should come from Eezham Tamils to the impositions of both the bourgeoisie imperialists as well as social imperialists. What is wrong in Eezham Tamils thinking of a horizontal approach of aligning with the stateless Tamils all over the world and other stateless nations in creating a new theoretical perspective for the betterment of the world order?<\/p>\n

World socialists in the island talk about the massacre of 160,000 JVP Sinhala youth in 1971 and in 1989. The JVP never reached out to Tamils and unfortunately the Tamils were watching in silence. The JVP was not watching in silence at the genocide of Eezham Tamils. It was a party to the Colombo system. This ground reality should enlighten world socialism that it needs fresh theoretical outlook in approaching the question in the island.<\/p>\n

For genuine coming together of the working class there should be equality among them at least in self-respect.<\/p>\n

Are the world socialists in the island, talking against nationalism, prepared to do away with \u2018Sri Lanka\u2019 identity, or are they prepared to consider Tamil Eelam on a par with Sri Lanka? If so, it would not only help the working class to come together but would also make the working class to course correct the bourgeoisie playing agents to imperialisms.<\/p>\n

Source: Tamilnet\/ Tamilgurdian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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