LAW ANIMATED WORLD, 30 November 2018, Vol. 14, Part 2, No. 22 issue -
October Revolution special issue - front and back cover pages
Sunday, December 9, 2018
Editorial, "IS THERE ANY FUTURE FOR SOCIALISM?," in LAW ANIMATED WORLD, 30 November 2018, Vol. 14, Part 2, No. 22 issue
IS THERE ANY FUTURE FOR SOCIALISM?
While commemorating the glorious October Socialist Revolution
and the rich legacy of its stupendous achievements as also decrying the many
tragic and avoidable excesses occurring in its wake, one is constrained to put
the above question – to self as also to all humane and socially conscious
persons – and seek the right answers. Extreme critics, not just from vested
bourgeois circles, castigate the communist or state socialist experiments made
in the wake of October Revolution and treat them as veritable nightmares which only
left a trail of inhuman atrocities and economic chaos. These faultfinders gloat
on the developments leading to the collapse of the Soviet socialist systems in
the world and adoption of market capitalist economy by even the few existing state
socialist countries. But, surprisingly, there are several other scholars, even
from conservative circles, once again ruminating on the relatively stable past,
even with a cold war raging between the two superpowers – America and Soviet
Union –, and the contributions made by State Socialisms to the cause of world
peace and security. They even desire and appeal for a sort of rich blend of the
‘good’s in the rival systems and forging of a multi-polar, democratic, socially
beneficial world economy and polities. Not denying the horrible distortions that
occurred in the construction and development of state socialisms all over the
world, this editor feels their enormous positive features cannot be ignored; especially
their pioneering role in declaring and securing almost all the basic
fundamental rights for people now being urged by all socially concerned
organizations and political parties all over the world, save of course a few
fanatical sectional parties and interests, like the right to vote to all, rights
of women and trans-genders, free education, free public health, assured
shelter, speedy industrialization in public sector, etc. It is mainly the
happening and development of the Soviet and later Chinese, Cuban, Vietnamese
etc. socialist experiments and their successes that led to the success of national
liberation movements all over the world with a strong bulwark of the socialist
camp protecting and promoting their interests. Even now as Saral Sarkar says in
his detailed, analytical article published in this issue, a sort of
eco-socialism is a worthy ideal to be sought and fought for; and thoughtful
scholars, hailing from several countries and communities of the world, do
cherish and propagate a like ideal. Even in our country, despite the rapid
strides being made in and through the market capitalist economy with its
inevitable evils affecting the people, we still boast of a constitutionally
declared and assured secular, socialist democracy, and there is no doubt that
only a sort of humane, democratic, eco-friendly socialism can save the world. §§§
Editorial, "11/11/11, 9/11 & JULIAN ASSANGE," in LAW ANIMATED WORLD, 15 November 2018, Vol. 14, Part 2, No. 21 issue
11/11/11, 9/11 & JULIAN ASSANGE
A historic armistice was struck
between the victor allied powers and the vanquished Germany and Central powers
on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918, which
later after six months culminated in the notorious Versailles Peace Treaty in
June 1919; called and celebrated as the Remembrance Day in Commonwealth
Countries, as Armistice Day in France and Veterans Day in the USA, it has now seen
its century celebrations in Paris with almost all the prominent powers in the
world which fought the World War I again participating to commemorate it. Prof.
Michel Chossudovsky rightly calls this as an evil exercise of War Criminals
commemorating the end of the First World War – especially castigates the nasty genocidal
invasions and wars carried on by the US and NATO powers in the Middle East and
Afghanistan as also their aggressive postures all over the world and also warns
of another dangerous possibility of a suicidal-to-entire-humanity type of
nuclear third world war breaking out due to such crimes against humanity. One
can say the prelude to this 11/11/11 itself was replicated in a way by the US
and NATO taking advantage of the horrible 9/11 attacks, themselves false flag
operations blamed on a non-existence bin Laden led Islamic terrorist conspiracy
to this end. Pursuant to that millions of Muslims have been slaughtered in the
Middle East and Afghanistan and now the focus is on attacking Iran, which may
well become the Serbia of a future world war. Only Putin of Russia, though
himself not free from blame of supporting the murderous Zionist regime of
Israel and selling arms to the aggressive fanatic Saudi Arabian regime, sounds
saner and calls for a multi-polar word with genuine peace efforts. One may
wonder how all this is connected to Julian Assange, the brave and dedicated,
and the most persecuted journalist in the world now. It is so because he has
best served the cause of freedom of speech and expression as also the very future
and welfare of humanity, by releasing lakhs of secret files of the aggressive
imperialist powers and exposing their genocidal atrocities and vicious plans of
invasions all over the world. He is languishing in the Ecuadorian embassy in London
since years and now in a real danger of being handed over to the British lackeys
of the murderous US imperialist regime. Despite his somewhat ignoring approach
to the villains of the 9/11 operations, he deserves all our praise and
solidarity and hope he will somehow be rescued by the concerted efforts of democratic,
peace-loving people all over the world. §§§
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