Marxism 51 (Violence in Protest Movements)

 Violence in protest movements like the ones against the Agnipath project is always counterproductive There is difference between revolutionary movements for total transformation of system and protest movements against grievances within the system. For revolutionary movements two factors are required -- objective, the ripening of the internal contradictions of the system. i.e. the crisis of capitalism and the subjective factor, readiness of revolutionary organized working class equipped with the class consciousness, both the factors are missing at the movement. The underground armed struggle, as being carried out by CPI (Maoist) in the tribal belt of the central India is also not tenable at the moment as the success of ant underground movements depends on its overwhelming over round support. Anyway in the existing post modern states, in the wake of the armed strength of the coercive apparatuses of the states armed revolution is a difficult proposition. The era of Bolshevik type Revolution is over. In the neo-liberal capitalism new international on the principles of Marxism translated in the context of neo-liberal capitalism, is needed. In India the additional theoretical need is comprehension of class-caste relationship. The ruling castes have been the ruling classes also. The need of the hour is theorization of the slogan Jai Bhim - Lal Salam, symbolizing the dialectical unity of the struggles of social & economic justice.

Anyway the brunt of the destruction of public property has always to be born by the public.