COMMUNISM vs RSS PART 2

Following the India-China conflict, Nehru, who was against the RSS earlier, allowed a contingent of the RSS to participate in the 1963 Republic Day parade in New Delhi, as an acknowledgment of the work of the Swayam Sevaks helping Indian troops carrying supplies to forward areas. The RSS was also hailed by the next Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri and General Khushwant Singh of the Indian Army for their contribution to relief and support worn during the Indo-Pak war of 1965. The RSS was the first organization to donate blood during the Indo-Pak war of 1971.

So we have two movements parallel and antithetical to one another to look at - text-book cases of directly opposed, contrasted, mutually incompatible ideologies! One passionate about the country which sings the song “Namaste, sadaa, valsale, Mathrubhume....” to begin the daily Shakha and, that believes that the love for one’s country is worth more than all the riches in the world! It is the grappling-iron that binds generations together; it is passion, conviction, and redemption! India is the manifestation of the Hindu conception of a nation-state. As such, India is the custodian of the Hindu Civilization, the primary objective of which is to ensure the continued existence of Dharma. The other, Communism which never had any patriotic feeling, was an idea of International political organisation with world hegemony as its goal. It rose to power in the Soviet Union, China, and several countries in East Germany, Eastern Europe, Cuba, Vietnam, North Korea, Cambodia, etc, but collapsed like a house of cards in its heartland, and survives in only China as an economic and military power thanks to discarding the economic ideology! Marxism has been comprehensively discredited as an economic system, but its supporters then began looking for ways the oppressor/oppressed dynamic could be put to use elsewhere. Communists are now taking great pains to paint themselves as liberal urbane contrarians, democrats and social provocateurs when they are neo-Nazis, minus the Aryan fixation!

Where does RSS and Communism conflict? As we can see, the name Communist is automatically seared into the Nationalist consciousness as an organization hostile to everything RSS stands for! On every political issue, the Left take the side of chaos and destruction, crime and disorder. RSS would consider Marxism as another delusion made up of a “fixed false belief” as Dawkins would call religion! Worse, Communists have this tendency to regard Marxism as being synonymous with wisdom!

What exactly is the reason why Communists oppose RSS? Their main allegation against the RSS is its “aggressive re-institution of oppressive 'traditional values”! They claim to be "progressive". This political correctness and junk thought are inherent in the Left ideological system. The rebranding of Communism as “progressivism” did not take away their love for totalitarianism and absolute statist control, which everywhere has lead to misery, corruption, and brutality, and never elevated humanity.

Communist intolerance is accepted as a legitimate political platform! “Political violence peaked in the period from 1966 to 1970, driven by incidents involving Communist parties”-Rohit Tikku, researcher... “While the Congress was associated with the greatest number of incidents, the Communists were associated with most deaths.””...political violence may have a non-linear relationship with political power i.e. the likelihood of violence is at its maximum when the competition for political control is in balance...”Now look at the killing fields of Kannur for validation! Violence and bullying are the left’s stock in trade, as are fake and exaggerated claims of oppression and sacrifices!

Commies quite literally regard the values that sit at the very heart of Indianness/Hindutva/Modi govt – the rule of law applied equally to all, limited government, respect for all religions, and the free and open exchange of ideas – as “oppressive.” A contempt for these values is precisely what defines the Left generally. Hence Leftism is not “liberal” – or concerned with liberty in any way at all. It is the very opposite of real liberalism. It is fascism. I think they are feeling an existential threat!

Communist propaganda is being wedged deeper and deeper into the educational system. Teaching kids to hate their culture, their religion, their nationhood, is the on-going history education! Dennis Prager’s insightful distinction between the political left and right appears to be very correct: the right, according to him, generally sees the left as wrong but not evil, whereas the left sees the right not merely as wrong but as evil! But they are rabidly illiberal, irrational, and immoral, and evil!

Now as we can observe, the RSS can confidently claim that Swayam Sevaks rule the most number of States and lead the Union Government! If political power decides all issues, Sangh Parivar has several times that of Communists and most of the political Opposition put together! But the RSS has avoided confrontation hiding its strengths and biding its time. RSS is possibly the world’s largest cultural association. What is more, it has seeded and fronted more than 140 associated bodies, which it continues to guide, if not control. Its membership runs into millions. In this context, I would like to stress that the character building and community service objectives of the Sangh with its collective conviction of patriotism have made it indeed the “second line of defense” to the country as former Supreme Court Judge K T Thomas observed recently.