Communist" dispossession meets "reactionary" resistance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2616168 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Projit Bihari Mukharji (0009-0001-6653-8634, Oxford Brookes University [email protected], corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 2009 |
| Issue | 54 |
| Pages | 89-96 |
| Publication date | 2009-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Focaal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0920-1297 • E-ISSN: 1558-5263 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/fcl.2009.540107 |
| OpenAlex | W2018229281 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
The reflections in this article were instigated by the repeated and brutal clashes since 2007 between peasants and the state government's militias-both official and unofficial-over the issue of industrialization. A communist government engaging peasants violently in order to acquire and transfer their lands to big business houses to set up capitalist enterprises seemed dramatically ironic. De- spite the presence of many immediate causes for the conflict, subtle long-term change to the nature of communist politics in the state was also responsible for the present situation. This article identifies two trends that, though significant, are by themselves not enough to explain what is happening in West Bengal today. First, the growth of a culture of governance where the Communist Party actively seeks to manage rather than politicize social conflicts; second, the recasting of radical political subjectivity as a matter of identity rather than an instigation for critical self-reflection and self-transformation
Communism · Industrialisation · Political economy · Political science · Political subjectivity · Politics · Reactionary · Sociology · Indian History and Philosophy · Law · Political Economy and Marxism · South Asian Studies and Conflicts
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2016 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |