Zitate von E. M. Sankaran Namboodiripad
E. M. Sankaran Namboodiripad
Geburtstag: 13. Juni 1909
Todesdatum: 19. März 1998
E. M. Sankaran Namboodiripad war 1957–1959 und 1967–1969 Chief Minister des indischen Bundesstaates Kerala. Namboodiripad war Sozialist, Vorsitzender der Communist Party of India CPI und galt als marxistischer Vordenker.
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„…engaged themselves in mainly exposing the policies and programmes of the bourgeois leaders including Gandhi without participating in these struggles and sharing their bitter experience. The result was that the bourgeois leadership and the people were getting closer to each other.“
— E. M. S. Namboodiripad
On the early communist sectarianism of the 1920s quoted in "The Mahatma and the Ism" in page=9.
„The author has accused her own mother of indulging in deviant sexuality. Yet, Mary Roy takes pride in the "beautiful work" by her daughter. "Why is it so?"“
— E. M. S. Namboodiripad
Above quotes on Arundhati Roy’s novel "The God of Small Things" in which she had criticized E.M.S. cited in EMS attacks literary content of Arundhati Roy's novel, 29 November 1997, 13 December 2013, Rediff.com http://www.rediff.com/news/nov/29roy.htm,
„Elements of Gandhism were by and large inherent in my life style and mode of thinking even after I adopted Marxism. While expressing my ideological difference with Gandhism, I became a political activist who upheld the high values of Gandhism and tried to translate them in my personal lifestyle.“
— E. M. S. Namboodiripad
[Namboodiripad, E. M. S., The Mahatma and the Ism, http://books.google.com/books?id=AAw59zNJDYoC, 2010, LeftWord Books, 978-81-87496-98-4, 10]
„Why and how did our country fall from its brilliant antiquity to the degradation of pre-British days? The answer is that defeat of the oppressed castes at the hands of the Brahminic overlordship, of materialism by idealism, constituted the beginning of the fall of India’s civilization and culture which in the end led to the loss of national independence.“
— E. M. S. Namboodiripad
Above two quotes are on Adi Sankara’s success of idealism vis-a-vis materialism in page=11.
„We had then and still have to fight a two-front battle. Ranged against us on the one hand are those who denounce us for our alleged ‘departure from the principles of nationalism and socialism’, since we are championing ‘sectarian’ causes like those of oppressed castes and religious minorities. On the other hand are those who, in the name of defending the oppressed caste masses, in fact, isolate them from the mainstream of the united struggle of the working people irrespective of caste, communities and so on.“
— E. M. S. Namboodiripad
On special role of caste in Indian society in page=12.
„This new theory of Dravidian superiority is as unscientific as the theory of Aryan superiority. For, it goes against all the accepted conclusions of historical research, which have conclusively proved the indivisible links between social and family institutions on the one hand and the stage of civilization on the other.“
— E. M. S. Namboodiripad
On the issue of pre-Aryan inferiority or Aryan superiority
„It is far from the truth to say that the rebellion was a communal riot, that the objective of the rebels was the destruction of Hindu religion and that the six months of rebellion were six months of anti-Hindu atrocities… All this, however, does not mean that religious fanaticism was totally absent in the rebellion. The numbers of forced conversions which did take place cannot by any stretch of imagination be explained by any other motive than religious fanaticism… One can and should, however, state explicitly that the main force behind the rebellion was not fanaticism which was simply a by-product…“
— E. M. S. Namboodiripad
On the issue of the Malabar rebellion
„associated himself with the masses, their lives, their problems, sentiments and aspirations.“
— E. M. S. Namboodiripad
Above two quotes are his assessment of Gandhi.
„When we own up our mistakes some people interpret it as if we are wrong. They too commit mistakes.“
— E. M. S. Namboodiripad
Quoted in Quotations by 60 Greatest Indians, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology http://resourcecentre.daiict.ac.in/eresources/iresources/quotations.html,
„…the Buddha whose near-materialist philosophy gripped the mass of suppressed humanity…those belonging to the materialist school had to fight an unequal fight and were therefore defeated…the defeat of the materialists in this unequal battle was the beginning of a millennium-long age of intellectual and socio-political backwardness which culminated in the establishment of British rule in our land.“
— E. M. S. Namboodiripad
Above two quotes written in his book “History, Society and Land Relations” after paying a tribute to Shankara he points to the non-idealist streams of ancient Indian philosophy, above two quotes are in A Socialist who became a Communist, 20 April 2010, 13 December 2013, The Hindu http://www.thehindu.com/books/a-socialist-who-became-a-communist/article406031.ece,
