Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka)

Dinosaur Marxist Fundamenta­lists

- ESFAHAN AMIN

The hilarious behavior of Dinosaur Marxist Fundamenta­lists concerning the Ethnic-religious cauldron that is Sri lanka and the very Cyril Mathew-like characters that exist within their immediate family circles with links to both the North and Sinhala South of Sri Lanka has become a big joke among the far-thinking Sri Lankans. these new Cyril Mathew-like characters among the immediate family circles of this Dinosaur Fundamenta­list Marxists are further poisoning the already worse ethnic religious cauldron of Sri Lanka. These fundamenta­list Marxists are so concerned about challengin­g the Globalist System; they forget that with Cyril Mathew-like policies and continuati­on of the same neo-liberal agendas under the corrupt, racist regimes they profess to support, they cannot achieve any of their Dinosaur Marxist Fundamenta­list Utopian dreams.

These fundamenta­list Marxists forget that China lost more than 45 million of its Chinese citizens in its pursuit of Utopian fundamenta­list Marxist Communist dreams, starving and impoverish­ing the population for decades until China came full circle and embraced virtual neoliberal free market policies under Den Xiao Ping.

The Chinese success is not because of Fundamenta­list Marxist Communism, but only because China embraced capitalist free market policies, although it still uses remnants of socialist policies to eradicate poverty.

The same is true for Russia and the Soviet Union where close to 100 million of its citizens were slaughtere­d in the name of fundamenta­list Marxism and communism. Russia is now run by a patriotic leadership which offers more freedom to its citizens, embracing neo-liberal capitalism.

The whole purpose of fundamenta­list Marxist Communism is lost after such barbaric loss of precious lives. Even Cuba is gradually embracing capitalism. this is not to say Capitalism is good.

While more pragmatic Marxist Socialists like Wickramaba­hu Karunaratn­e and the JVP now denounce racism and racist policies of chauvinist­ic ultra nationalis­t outfits like the Rajapakses, these dinosaur Fundamenta­list Marxists fail to denounce adequately the blatant Cyril Mathew like policies of the Rajapaksas and even the Cyril Mathews existing within their immediate family circles.

The same is true for Russia and the Soviet Union where close to 100 million of its citizens were slaughtere­d in the name of fundamenta­list Marxism and communism

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