Sir you can also add to your valuable observations the concept of survival
mechanism of darwin, wherein humans like animals develop treason,false
propaganda,violence, arrogance etc: as their survival mechanisms.Naxals are
no different.

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Amitabh Thakur <[email protected]> wrote:

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> Friends,
>
> Today the threat of Naxalism (known by so many names) has been accepted as
> being among the biggest threats to our country. The situation is almost
> alike an all-out war where both the State and the extra-constitutional
> forces seem to be interlocked in a deadly fight. And when any State, with
> all its might, decides over something, more often than not, it succeeds in
> achieving its goal and purpose.
> Yet, the fact remains that the lure of the Left is among such phenomenon
> that is bound to remain all the time, at all places. The idea of waging a
> righteous war against the system, the imagery of being the protectors of the
> poor and the hapless and the concept of being the voice of the voiceless are
> some such thoughts that always have a sufficiently large number of takers.
> There could always be a question as regards the extent to which such ideas
> exist in an individual as also regarding the genuineness and commitment of
> those who claim to be the forbearers of such ideas but there can be no
> denying that Left and Ultra-left are such basic ideas which have their
> existence rooted in the very genesis of Human thought.
> Here is an attempt to show it through a brief academic analysis-
> 1. Left, Right and Center are three broad categories in which Human Thought
> processes can be divided. If there shall be a Centrist way of thinking and a
> Rightist way of thinking, there will also be some kind of Leftist way of
> thinking as well. This seems to be as natural as it can be.
> 2. Extending the same further, we can see that Left and Right both move
> have a scope to tend to their respective infinities, just as we see in the
> Number system.
> 3. Hence, extreme Left (like the one seen all over the world on so many
> occasions) and Extreme Right (example being that of Hitler and Mussolini)
> are such phenomenons that always have a scope of popping up.
> 4. The same can also be seen through the most popular of the Statistical
> distribution tables, known as Normal distribution, which as we all know is
> Bell-shaped. Here all situations ranging from minus infinity to plus
> infinity are possible with varying probability. Thus, extrapolating this
> concept to the various possible ideologies, we see that while Centrist ideas
> and those closer to center (on both the Right and the Left) have a much
> higher probability of existence, yet the presence of extreme ideologies can
> not be ruled out.
> 5. This must have been the reason for all kinds of ideologies existing
> since the advent of human race- in different forms.
> 6. Left and Extreme Left also have some kind of glamour and romanticism
> attached to it. This must have been the reason for such extremely talented
> people with bright future as Che Guevera, Fidel Castro, Lenin, Charu
> Mazumdar et al to have given up everything to get attracted to this, with
> varying degree of success.
> 7. Again, whenever the Left or extreme Left has been able to acquire power
> finally, it tends to have more and more of Centrist tendencies. It is akin
> to water flowing from higher level to lower level naturally.
> Thus, science and nature seem to point out that Ultra Left ideologies have
> an inbuilt place in human existence. But, then since the prime role of State
> is related to Peace and tranquility in the Society, hence no government
> (acting on behalf of the State) can ever tolerate any such kind of
> aberration and anomaly that questions its very existence.
> Hence, such a struggle, time and again.
>
> Amitabh Thakur
> IPS,
> Currently at IIM Lucknow
> # 94155-34526
>
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vikas dhankhar
research engineer
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