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How to make slaves enjoying their slavery to get angry & fight Brahminical oppressors?

After about 30 years of running Dalit Voice, having circulation in every part of India, also visited and interacted with our DV family, we fully agree with the thrust of Brother Ayyankali’s scathing attack on us. (See below the Editorial: DV failed to inspire people to fight Brahminism).

If one is an honest intellectual, she or he has to accept such equally honest criticisms in the interest of the movement one is leading. Dalit Voice is not a business but a mission. Having been in this mission for the past 30 years, we have ever so many times confessed how we have converted our “blood into sweat” and yet with no result. Alas, our people are in deep, eternal coma.

Advice to revolutionaries: We don’t know who said it, whether Mao or Lenin: a revolutionary leader should not run too fast. He will go out of sight of those following who will get perturbed on missing the leader. He should lead and run fast enough and yet be within their sight.

This may not be the exact quotation but sums up the thought. May be the “Father of India”, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, was guided by such a thought.

Dr. Ambedkar first thought of reforming Hinduism (Brahminism) but when its owners rejected any reform, he launched the second phase of confrontation by establishing Untouchables as a separate entity outside Hinduism.

Poona Pact: The Brahmins then set up the cunning Bania, M.K. Gandhi, who got bloated when Big Brahmin leaders approached him to save their Hinduism from Dr. Ambedkar’s onslaught, namely “separate electorate”, which would set about 30% of the slaves (SC/ST) of India against them.

Here also Babasaheb failed when Gandhi resorted to his famous bogus fasting stunts.

The “Poona Pact” (1932) finally sealed the fate of Untouchables and made them part of Hinduism. The constitutional reservations to SC/ST offered in place of separate electorate helped the Brahmins to convert them into obedient Hindus and their slaves.

Unity with Muslims: The credit for saving Hinduism, therefore, goes solely to Gandhi — and not the Hindu terrorist RSS.

Dr. Ambedkar then thought he could join hands with Muslims so that the country’s two single largest communities could together defeat the common enemy — the Brahminical saboteurs. But by then Gandhi and his Brahmin followers had generated country-wide anti-Muslim poisoning which whipped up so much of hatred and violence leading to many bloody anti-Muslim riots. M.A. Jinnah who was then in the Congress Party got so much disgusted that he started demanding Pakistan. Dr. Ambedkar opposed partition but by then it was too late.

As soon as the country got partitioned (1947), the hard core Brahminical terrorists shot dead M.K. Gandhi who did so much to Brahmins and made them the unquestioned leaders of the land. Brahminical strategies and tactics were superb.

Heart broken: Dr. Ambedkar by then was too disgusted, old and crippled health-wise. He had none to look after him except his hostile Brahmin second wife.

He had given all the warnings he could to the Brahminical leaders but they simply dismissed him.

After getting convinced that Brahminism could never be repaired, he decided to quit the poison-filled Hindu house and take his people to the liberating Budhism. And soon he died - or killed?

There is no point in blaming the enemy. The enemy will do whatever in its interest. His own people betrayed Babasaheb by refusing to follow him to Budhism. Some “educated” Dalits even turned against him.

Brahminism killing India: History has given its verdict that Dr. Ambedkar is independent India’s greatest revolutionary philosopher. And the country’s tallest titan. But the Brahmins have killed this revolution and thereby killed the country also. What do they care for India?

A second Babasaheb will not be born in “independent” Brahminical India.

The role played by our Brahminical marxists is yet another shameful chapter of our history.

So much so India is neither living or dead. It is brain-dead.

Closing down DV: When this is the actual historical reality of India what can we do? How many times we have expressed our disgust. We even announced closing down DV. (DV Edit May 16, 2007: “Sunset over Dalit World? Editor seeks permission to close down Dalit Voice”).

Every “educated” Dalit is injected with Brahminical poison. And he is in a state of coma.

Raging counter-revolution: Before a revolution begins, the country or a society will develop a “revolutionary situation”. We know every part of India. What we see here is not a “revolutionary situation” but a first-rate counter-revolutionary movement. There is not even one political party pledged to bring about a revolution. In fact the country’s constitution itself blocks development of any genuine revolutionary movement.

If an individual or a group shows signs of revolutionary tendencies, immediately all efforts are made to corrupt and co-opt its ring leaders. That is the end. The rulers have set in place an array of police, paramilitary and military forces to keep watch and pounce only our people.

Many such attempts to corrupt and co-opt were made on us but we resisted. But what one single person can do? Revolution is not a tea party.

Dalit youth corrupted: Brahminical forces know that the country’s most explosive elements are the Untouchables. All-out efforts are being made to do the fire-fighting. They keep a watch on the up and coming Dalit youth and see to it that they are recruited to a political party or an NGO. Both are sure path to living death. Some revolutionary youth are there but they are brainwashed to fight their own brothers. Divide and rule.

Marrying Brahmin girls: Brighter and more influential Dalits join govt. services through reservation and marry fair-skinned Brahmin girls or pushed to corruption and then caught. The govt. service in a way also helps the ruling class to get the fellow co-opted to the system.

Retired govt. servants are not only retired but also tired. They easily fall into the trap of the Marwari Goenka and suffer a living death in his Vipassana meditation. Babasaheb Ambedkar’s Budhism has been corrupted and reduced to nothing but idol worship. What a tragedy?

When Dalits turn revolutionary: There is another side of the picture that brings us real shock. The SC/ST/BCs may be lifeless, starving, devoid of all revolutionary fervour and least interested in hitting back at those drinking their blood.

But these very “cowardly” fellows once got recruited by the Hindu terrorist forces like Bajrang Dal, Shiv Sena, Rama Sena and such other lumpen crackpots they become really ferocious, uncontrollable and blood-thirsty.

Babri Masjid was demolished by the Hindu terrorist outfits with the help of such Andhra Pradesh Dalits. Killer Chief Minister Narendra Modi launched his “Gujarat Genocide”, killing about 3,000 Muslims in Ahmedabad with the help of the Dalits and Tribals. Hundreds of such instances are reported daily in the media. All Brahminical-controlled rowdy forces in the country comprise mainly Dalits. In Bengal, it is the Dalits who are the fighting arm of the manuwadi marxist leadership.

Cutting throats of blood brothers: Grass-eating Brahminical forces are cowards. They are afraid of blood. They might have been throughout violent but preach non-violence lest our angry people butcher them in cold blood.

Our people die as Maoists: The fighting arm of the Maoist (Naxalite) outfits in Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Orissa, AP, Karnataka and all other areas are all our own people. They know nothing of marxism or maoism but simply get thrilled to take the guns to kill the “class enemies” because that gives them a chance to kill their oppressors. Fight the police and fall dead. Their bodies are then thrown into jungle. Look, how heroic and bold they turn out when on the payroll of the enemy?

The leadership of both the Hindu terrorist and maoist parties are our upper caste enemies. Our people know it and yet they fight and die like flies under a burning lamp because of the intense enemy brain-washing technique.

NGO mesmerism: Alas, we have none to educate and motivate our own people who naturally fall prey to the machinations of the enemy and fall dead for the sake of the enemy. What to do? Educated SC/ST/BC youth have fallen prey to the temptations of “political power” or NGO mesmerism.

Why do our people —always complaining of exploitation and daily persecution by the Brahminical upper castes and yet silently suffer all the insults and violence — yet refuse to get angry and protest and fight? We get no answer to this question. Nor a clue in history.

How do the same “cowardly” people, once given some drink and cash by the very enemy, cut the throat of their own brothers in cold blood?

This is because of the intense Brahminical brainwashing and the media manipulation.

Hundreds of Hanumans have died in killing their own Muslim, Christian blood-brothers in hundreds of anti-Muslim riots and in recent Orissa (Kandhamal) anti-Christian riots.

Slave dying to defend slave-master: How do you like this scene of a slave dying to defend his slave-master — exhibiting extraordinary “revolutionary fervour”?

Have you seen a parallel to this in world history?

This is the wonder that is India.

No media: RSS and its many hydra-headed outfits are today threatening Muslims, Christians and Dalits only because of the SC/ST/BC muscle power.

We have no powerful media to educate these unthinking lumpen elements. This is our biggest drawback. If the micro-minority Brahminical people have been ruling India it is mainly because of their total monopoly on the media. But we the over 85% Bahujan slaves have none except this tiny Dalit Voice.

Weeping in silence: Financially we are crippled. Our only income is the subscription revenue. DSA books are selling well. Our DV family members never bothered despite repeated appeals for “media centre”.

Individually, “educated” SC/ST/BCs may be happy but individual happiness is no happiness. Liberation is always collective. But our people simply can’t understand these things. We are helpless. What else to do except simply weep in silence?

Have you seen a parallel to this in any part of India? This is the wonder that is India that is Bharat.

Will the slaves of India continue to enterally enjoy their slavery? History of 3,000 years says so.

India becomes a failed state: This is the heart-rending pathetic picture of India, seeing which we silently weep. What else to do? We are helpless. Financially crippled, with total media blackout, our words are not reaching the masses hungering for an exploitation-free life.

Over 50% of the country’s population is dirt poor. May be another 30% hand-to-mouth. About 15% of the upper castes led by the 2% Brahmins are the rulers. The Western rulers know this truth and yet call India as the world’s largest democratic country to spite China. But we the oppressed only know what type of democracy is practised here. India has become a failed state. In the process the country itself is dying. But who cares? Brahminical rulers are more interested in a Security Council seat, not the health and happiness of the country. Darkness is surrounding us.

Muslims are also in a deeper coma. The mere 15% ruling class among Muslims, comprising political, religious and business leaders have turned traitors to the community. The Muslims being converts from SC/ST/BCs their liberation is ultimately connected with our future. But the Muslim leadership under the thumb of Brahminical rulers will not pass this message to the Muslim masses.

Who can save this country? We have no answer.

The above Editorial is our reply to Brother Ayyankali whose charge-sheet against us is published below.

COMMUNICATION

DV failed to inspire people to fight Brahminism

COM. AYYANKALI

I have been one of the greatest admirers and supporters of Dalit Voice all these years. But I am gradually getting disappointed with you.

I began examining why Dalit Bahujans have not been successful in rebelling against Brahminism. That is when I realised that they never had any culture of armed resistance, except in the very rare case of the late Ayyankali of Kerala who successfully butchered the Aryan cowards.

DV’S DEFEATIST ATTITUDE

I was also forced to examine the entire tradition and socio-cultural habit which was hindering this. That is how I realised that even you are very much responsible and that too directly.

Even though you have spoken about the need for more anger, very subtly, you too have been adopting a very timid and nonviolent position in your own writings. Of course, this has been a defect of the Dalit Bahujan leadership right from the very beginning itself. You too seem to have internalised all its cultural flaws.

I don’t think people who seem to be very proud to be called “Persecuted Nationalities Denied Human Rights” will ever have the courage to stand up and butcher their enemies.

You have been disseminating a very defeatist attitude and mentality. You keep on saying that political power will never come without cultural struggle. But what is the use if the culture that you yourself disseminate is one of “Oh, people of the world, take pity on us. Oh somebody help us poor weaklings. Help, help...”. How long must we keep on saying that we are “persecuted” and that “we are denied human rights”?

Anybody will tell us “If you are persecuted, then hit back severely”. So, this persecution complex and defeatist despairing culture simply won’t do.

“CASTE IDENTITY” IS WONDERFUL

Frankly, it is of no use at all and unless you stop spreading defeatist despair — no revolution will happen. You can have the best theory of “caste identity” and “caste war” which happen to be a very historical ideological breakthrough, but unless you inculcate a culture of mass revolutionary violence, you will not get anywhere at all.

You may argue that you have been doing enough by fighting for Lotus Sutra. Well, you are right — but you are wrong. Simply change that defeatist slogan on your masthead which seems to actually convey some sort of enjoyment of the pain of being persecuted in a most masochistic manner and screams: “Voice of the Persecuted Nationalities Denied Human Rights”. Enough breast-beating, moaning and groaning.

IDEOLOGICAL ERRORS

You simply substitute it with: “War cry of the persecuted and angry nationalities thirsty for revolution”.

Are you willing to do this? I have serious doubts. You may argue that “No, this may make the Brahmins angry and they may shut DV down”. I say: “so be it”. Let them get as much angry as they want. We are here precisely to make them run for their lives. I don’t care if our circulation comes down to even a single digit figure. I actually mean this.

Only those who are interested in armed struggle need to read Dalit Voice. Those who are in a mood to beg, moan, weep and enjoy doing so can stop reading Dalit Voice and do anything else. In fact, you must tell this to your readers very, very clearly.

You must stop all sorts of defeatist despair by sweetening and glamourising the pain of moaning, groaning and weeping. Stop promoting this bloody masochism immediately. Sadists get pleasure by cruelly troubling others, while masochists get pleasure out of troubling themselves. Stop making such masochistic pain, the opium of Dalit Bahujans, immediately. Are you willing to do it?

Of course, this point is merely supplementary to your very serious ideological errors, where you have been adopting absolutely non-revolutionary positions with regard to Sri Lanka / LTTE issue, the Muslim question, China etc. You cannot adopt non- revolutionary pacifism sometime and then become slightly “revolutionary” the next day. This kind of dilution sends out precisely the wrong message.

But I will write in detail — not because I have any hopes of changing established social and cultural habits — but only because you must know why people get tired of Dalit Voice and stop reading it after some time.

STOP DV AT LEAST TEMPORARILY

Also, you have to be given a chance to defend yourself ideologically. I must also tell you that there is a very good connection between your personal actions at the micro level and your public actions at the macro level. Both are very much inter-related to socio-cultural habits and norms.

Unless you yourself — who still happen to be the leadership of most advance section among genuine revolutionaries — decide to change, precisely nothing positive will ever happen. You have to change your methods and destroy established socio-cultural mindsets and habits.

Without such constant flow of refinement and improvement, nothing revolutionary will happen. For that, you will have to lead by example. This is all the more important.

Because, really stunning and unprecedented things are happening all over the world. If we have to take positive advantage of all this, then personally you yourself will have to change first.

And let me tell you very frankly — running DV this way — is not going to achieve anything. Not because I have anything against you or DV, but because — to be effective, we must be willing to change. It would be a good idea to shut down DV for at least sometime, if that will help you take it to a higher and more effective level.