#14441
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#14442

spectralmarx posted:

Lol dude Soni Sori was raped and tortured by the state and police. As recent as the black ink attack. Again not sure what you're high on. That also doesn't negate her activism for AAP and not the Left parties per se. I've met her personally and only ever have respect for her. N Sundar has written plenty on the choices that residents of Bastar, Sukma etc are caught between. Again read carefully first. Also Bela Bhatia and Jean Dreze being harassed and the scroll reporter. Except just saying adivasis support the maoists would be inadequate and inaccurate.



Your invocation of Soni Sori's recent victimisation in 2016 was immediately following you accusing maoists of subjecting women who depart from the Maoist cause with violence, sexual or otherwise. so i did misunderstand you but it should be easy to see how these appeared conflated

i do not assert that all adivasis support maoism. i am alleging that green hunt contras subject adivasis to indiscriminate violence whether they are affiliated with maoist militancy or not, and that the sectors of adivasi tribal leadership which align with fascist contras are not doing so because of their sincere concern for the wellbeing of the villagers they persecute. my argument here is hinging on the fact that i do not in fact see adivasis as homogenous, they are capable of succumbing to reaction as anyone else

#14443

spectralmarx posted:

Please point to sources instead of rehearsing the obvious anti state position. At some point you will have to find a non state source right? Otherwise your confidence is coming out of your ass. The statement that vills were caught in crossfire and used as guards isn't mine. It's reported using statements from villagers (like I said possibly coerced but maybe not)



http://bannedthought.net/India/index.htm

This was already posted. This is all old anti-communist propaganda, in fact everything you've posted about "being there" and the plethora of real sources has been said by Elliot Higgins about Syria. Doesn't even bother me anymore, just another petty-bourgeois liberal who thinks they put in enough radical time to be anti-communist in the right way.

#14444
Because I didn't Wikipedia link to what is a widely known fact doesn't make it a fascist miscoloring. At best, it would be a language slip. There's literally no hiding or painting Soni sori as raped by maoists. Further if you finished the damn post then the sympathy for comrade sharmila should tell you that the post wasn't about maoists' or moderate to radical leftists' cruelty or perversion (which I even made a disclaimer of, it was to point at the sorry and murky (yes) state of how things unfolded. I don't need to backtrack on anything. If I was a fash or wanted to be one I have far better platforms.
However regarding the adivasis in whose names you make the plea, pls provide (even an obscure) source that documents counter statements from on field comrades if any. Otherwise don't make the claim for Sukma episode.

babyhueypnewton posted:

babyhueypnewton posted:

multiple women who wanted to leave were raped and killed.

look up comrade soni sori, a bastar (tribal area) resident and teacher who was raped in prison

This is what your said. Can't read more carefully than to understand that these two sentences follow each other to imply that not only are women who attempt to leave the maoists raped and killed (what a progressive idea you've presented! Everyone who doesn't agree is a fascist!) but that soni sori is an example of this. You've backtracked on that because it's not true but your original post says nothing about the state and police being responsible and heavily implies the opposite.


#14445

spectralmarx posted:

Because I didn't Wikipedia link to what is a widely known fact doesn't make it a fascist miscoloring.



I don't know what this refers to but I assume it doesn't refer to the "fact" that women who leave the maoists (though I'm not sure what this means) are often raped and killed. If it does I guess I missed the wikipedia article on it. If it doesn't you still need to justify that outrageously offensive claim.

#14446
I'll just reply to you once because this internal ideological circle jerk needs to die somewhere. Don't speak of Idlib, Sukma, Shopian, Lhasa, Ghaza, Xinjiang in one breath as imperialism. Those words barely mean anything unless you historically situate the present. So don't throw the banned site at me like history's a tape on loop. If you don't know what happened in this scenario either find out or hold your breath. Imperialism it seems

babyhueypnewton posted:

spectralmarx posted:

Please point to sources instead of rehearsing the obvious anti state position. At some point you will have to find a non state source right? Otherwise your confidence is coming out of your ass. The statement that vills were caught in crossfire and used as guards isn't mine. It's reported using statements from villagers (like I said possibly coerced but maybe not)

http://bannedthought.net/India/index.htm

This was already posted. This is all old anti-communist propaganda, in fact everything you've posted about "being there" and the plethora of real sources has been said by Elliot Higgins about Syria. Doesn't even bother me anymore, just another petty-bourgeois liberal who thinks they put in enough radical time to be anti-communist in the right way.


#14447
I'll back it when you bring the counter evidence on sukma. I'm so sorry it offended you though. I hope you're not too hurt.

babyhueypnewton posted:

spectralmarx posted:

Because I didn't Wikipedia link to what is a widely known fact doesn't make it a fascist miscoloring.

I don't know what this refers to but I assume it doesn't refer to the "fact" that women who leave the maoists (though I'm not sure what this means) are often raped and killed. If it does I guess I missed the wikipedia article on it. If it doesn't you still need to justify that outrageously offensive claim.


#14448
Since I made no connecting words like "consequentially" or hence pls feel free to read them as different paragraphs. Mere "facts" or episodes with disputed facts (apart from afspa and Soni sori) that need to be considered together. Not my problem if you want to keep reading them as coherent because hey I'm barely coherent

blinkandwheeze posted:

spectralmarx posted:

Lol dude Soni Sori was raped and tortured by the state and police. As recent as the black ink attack. Again not sure what you're high on. That also doesn't negate her activism for AAP and not the Left parties per se. I've met her personally and only ever have respect for her. N Sundar has written plenty on the choices that residents of Bastar, Sukma etc are caught between. Again read carefully first. Also Bela Bhatia and Jean Dreze being harassed and the scroll reporter. Except just saying adivasis support the maoists would be inadequate and inaccurate.

Your invocation of Soni Sori's recent victimisation in 2016 was immediately following you accusing maoists of subjecting women who depart from the Maoist cause with violence, sexual or otherwise. so i did misunderstand you but it should be easy to see how these appeared conflated

i do not assert that all adivasis support maoism. i am alleging that green hunt contras subject adivasis to indiscriminate violence whether they are affiliated with maoist militancy or not, and that the sectors of adivasi tribal leadership which align with fascist contras are not doing so because of their sincere concern for the wellbeing of the villagers they persecute. my argument here is hinging on the fact that i do not in fact see adivasis as homogenous, they are capable of succumbing to reaction as anyone else


#14449

spectralmarx posted:

I'll back it when you bring the counter evidence on sukma. I'm so sorry it offended you though. I hope you're not too hurt.


it should be up to you to provide evidence for the fact that maoists somehow coerced or forced villagers to operate as human shields. the article you provided simply conflates civilian militia with human shields, which is absurd in a contexts like maoist militancy where no clean distinction between civilian and professional military exists

#14450

spectralmarx posted:

Not my problem if you want to keep reading them as coherent because hey I'm barely coherent


i was only reading them as coherent until you clarified your point. I have admitted that i misunderstood you, i am not doing so wilfully

#14451
Just to be clear: you accused the Indian communist party (maoist) of raping and killimg women who attempt to leave the party. Alternatively, you could be saying that the CPI (M) acts as a mafia to sustain itself and rapes and kills women who do not cooperate with it. This is pure fascist propaganda, there is no possible way to avoid it, which is why you're throwing a hissy fit and refusing to even repeat the assertion let alone defend it. Why would this be acceptable about anything else? The same accusations are made about the USSR, China, North Korea, Cuba, Libya, Syria, Nicaragua, and every communist party during every people's war. Like I said take this garbage somewhere else because I am not intimidated.
#14452
I think the equivocation of sori's attack with maoist violence was unintentional misspeaking huey. Of course the rest of it is trash
#14453
Have you read N Sundar's documentation of Maoist violence and balagopal's works? There's no onus on me. Merely reiterating since you missed this detail earlier
#14454
Who's interested in intimidating you? You jumped in emotionally. Which is fine. But if you don't know the conversation then keep it under the lid sweety. I get your hunger for international solidarity but this isn't a Pepsi ad.
#14455
And don't get me started on CPI m goons across India because you might have romantic notions of it since yore.
#14456

spectralmarx posted:

Have you read N Sundar's documentation of Maoist violence and balagopal's works? There's no onus on me. Merely reiterating since you missed this detail earlier


You're the one who asked for counterevidence specifically dealing with the case of the attack in Sukma. your argument here is that historical accounts of maoist violence sympathetic to your perspective are allowable in substantiating an interpretation of the Sukma attack, but not historical accounts which aren't. History is apparently "a tape on loop" when you want it to be

#14457
Eh. I literally showed you two can play this game which is why contemporary evidence matters. But it's cute how you got the non Indian watcher spectators guilted lol. Nothing like a self suspecting comrade.
#14458
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#14459

spectralmarx posted:

Eh. I literally showed you two can play this game which is why contemporary evidence matters. But it's cute how you got the non Indian watcher spectators guilted lol. Nothing like a self suspecting comrade.


You're just conflating me and huey here. I never posted bannedthought at you. i simply stated that the article you have posted does not provide any concrete substantiation for the use of human shields like you suggested it does, and your answer to that is deferring to some rhetorical game against huey

#14460

spectralmarx posted:

And don't get me started on CPI m goons across India because you might have romantic notions of it since yore.



BnW may be interested in exposing you further, I am satisfied exposing your anti-communism. Don't expect to convince you but I would never belong to a community where calling one of the most heroic and effective communist parties in the world "goons" wasn't grounds for immediate disavowal. Maybe you can get a job with an NGO in India, they love imperialists who know the language of socialism and can sometimes even delude themselves into believing they are socialists. I'll stick to solidarity with the oppressed and principled anti-fascism and anti-imperialism.

#14461
#14462
This is not a safe space anymore
#14463

Petrol posted:


This is me waiting for concrete contemporary evidence regarding state allegations of maoist use of human shields in the recent Sukma attack

#14464

spectralmarx posted:

This is not a safe space anymore


you picked a fight with the two most obnoxious posters to pick a fight with, this was never going to be pretty. i hope you stick around anyway

#14465

Petrol posted:

you picked a fight with the two most obnoxious posters to pick a fight with, this was never going to be pretty. i hope you stick around anyway



Can't tell if that's a compliment or an insult as for being a safe space, you're probably right. It took a long time to drive shitty pro-imperialists off this forum and I'm glad I stuck around that long even if I don't post that much anymore. There was a time I would have engaged more rigorously but I'm too old now. I'm also addicted to my mod powers in r/communism and r/communism101 where I would have insta-banned you. Guess I'm just an old bolshevik now with no time left for libs...

#14466
nobody here would continue to be amenable to someone uncritically repeating IDF claims of the use of human shields in palestine. The only reason that obnoxious maoist force is the one side of this argument here is that you guys don't pay as much attention to India really.
#14467
you're all just kind of shouting at each other that's why it's funny
#14468
Yeah i get that it's just that i think everyone else would be shouting them off if it was any other conflict more relevant to Zzone interests.
#14469
well you're right that i, for one, don't know much about the indian situation, but that's just as true after all the above posts, so
#14470

blinkandwheeze posted:

nobody here would continue to be amenable to someone uncritically repeating IDF claims of the use of human shields in palestine. The only reason that obnoxious maoist force is the one side of this argument here is that you guys don't pay as much attention to India really.



Glad we're on the same page, there's always some liberal with dreams of rising above the other applicants to find the obscure cases that interest imperialism but the propaganda is always the same. I see it a lot wrt Eritrea recently though Venezuela seems to still be the number one for "look I'm a socialist just like you but it really is a dictatorship I even have family there who say so." Not really interested in engaging.

#14471

spectralmarx posted:

This is not a safe space anymore


this place is hell, welcome to hell

#14472

Petrol posted:

well you're right that i, for one, don't know much about the indian situation, but that's just as true after all the above posts, so


I mean i don't think you need to have much significant prior knowledge to realise that claims that the cpi(maoist) use human shields and rape or murder women who try to leave probably need something approaching substantiation

#14473
that's why i upvoted the two posts immediately after the original 'human shields' post that mocked the idea. otherwise i leave it to people who know more about the situation to sort things out
#14474
explaining to my younger self: in the year 2017 you will be stood in a field at work watching people thousands of miles away lay down the most brutal maoist owns on the forum for irony and stalin

my younger self: fuck
#14475
There is nothing more boring than an internet squabble with each side demanding the other side produce more sources for their argument
#14476
apart from theory on banned thought, are there any good 'indiawatcher' sources on developments in the countryside there and from the various parties involved?



this documentary is great btw
#14477
if you're talking about broad view stuff Sanhati and Economic & Political Weekly are generally good. the ICSPW are alright at updating on people's war generally but their frequency is pretty inconsistent. Signalfire's daily updates were the best and i miss them sorely
#14478

pogfan1996 posted:

There is nothing more boring than an internet squabble with each side demanding the other side produce more sources for their argument


got any sources to back this up?

#14479

tears posted:

pogfan1996 posted:

There is nothing more boring than an internet squabble with each side demanding the other side produce more sources for their argument

got any sources to back this up?


wow. imperialist much?

#14480
hell,