{"id":5650,"date":"2020-01-16T14:41:09","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T09:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=5650"},"modified":"2020-01-16T14:41:09","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T09:11:09","slug":"challenges-associated-with-spreading-left-wing-extremism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/challenges-associated-with-spreading-left-wing-extremism\/","title":{"rendered":"Challenges associated with spreading left-wing-extremism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Relevance: Mains: G.S paper III: Defence &amp; Security<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Uninformed opposition to the Citizenship Amendment Act is a classic case of back-door support to the front-door entry of Bangladeshi infiltrators.<br \/>\n\u2022 While those in the office are striving to ward off the impact of the challenges from the global economy and give further impetus to India\u2019s manufacturing sector, many in the opposition are working overtime to \u201cmanufacture\u201d unrest.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Background:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is easier to do so as most \u201cnarrative shapers\u201d come from the left-of-center camp.<br \/>\n\u2022 Compared to the BJP, ideologies opposed to it have always had an upper hand in the mainstream media.<br \/>\n\u2022 Even in the NGO sector, many of whom now call themselves civil society, leftists have been in a dominant position.<br \/>\n\u2022 This used to be the case in academia as well. Even the Padma awards were almost an exclusive right of the left-of-centre artists and authors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Post 2014:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Post 2014, this situation has been changing. The left-of-centre ideological block is facing stiff opposition in every walk of public life.<br \/>\n\u2022 Accustomed to calling the shots without any accountability, this group is now bewildered at an establishment that is demanding answers.<br \/>\n\u2022 Increasingly, they are now finding it tough to protect their privileges.<br \/>\n\u2022 Habituated to an unquestioned hegemony in their chosen sectors, leftists are perturbed to find that their opponents can outsmart them.<br \/>\n\u2022 During the last five years, all this contributed to the unease in the leftist block.<br \/>\n\u2022 Frustration in this block reached its zenith after the resounding victory of the BJP-NDA in the 2019 general election.<br \/>\n\u2022 Finding themselves in a helpless situation, they are now spreading unfounded fears, sowing seeds of suspicion and rejecting the fears about the impact of unchecked infiltration of Bangladeshis, expressed even by the apex court.<br \/>\n\u2022 Uninformed opposition to the Citizenship Amendment Act is a classic case of back-door support to the front-door entry of Bangladeshi infiltrators.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Spreading left-wing-extremism:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The people are being told that opposing the CAA is equal to progressivism. Now that there is a greater public awakening about the truth behind the CAA and with the initial opposition to the Act depleting, violence in JNU is being used by the leftist to play the martyr.<br \/>\n\u2022 It is, therefore, educative to understand the general game plan as well as the usual positions of the leftists.<br \/>\n\u2022 To start with, nationalism was always a bad word for the Left. Many in the ultra-left have a firm conviction that India is a conglomeration of several nationalities.<br \/>\n\u2022 Although they talk of constitutionalism, they look grudgingly even at the constitutional boundaries of India.<br \/>\n\u2022 Disregarding the threat of secessionism, they have always been pro-Article 370, much against the desire of the framers of the Constitution.<br \/>\n\u2022 Supreme Court observations and reprimands notwithstanding, leftists always opposed the common civil code and by implication, freedom to Muslim women from the barbaric practice of triple talaq as well.<br \/>\n\u2022 Post JNU, the entire leftist ecosystem is busy in condemning the violence.<br \/>\n\u2022 Violence is always deplorable. But the leftists have double standards.<br \/>\n\u2022 They don\u2019t mind burning public property in Delhi and unleashing murderous politics in Kerala.<br \/>\n\u2022 But when violence takes a toll on their functionaries, they suddenly become Gandhian and create a picture as if their political activism has always been within the \u201clegal framework\u201d and non-violent as well.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Way forward:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Frustrated by electoral reverses, the ideological untouchability practiced by the leftists leading to intellectual arrogance is now acquiring new, dangerous dimensions.<br \/>\n\u2022 Their hegemony is now being challenged and that is the real reason for their stomach ache.<br \/>\n\u2022 This frustration takes a perverted turn when enmity to and a pathological hatred of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is added to it.<br \/>\n\u2022 Unless the saner elements in their ideological block ensure that leftists liberate themselves from this hypocrisy, their anarchist politics is going to wreak havoc, and sadly, all in the name of liberalism.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relevance: Mains: G.S paper III: Defence &amp; Security Context: Uninformed opposition to the Citizenship Amendment Act is a classic case<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[392],"class_list":["post-5650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","tag-union-public-service-commission-upsc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5651,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5650\/revisions\/5651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}