KYKL observes 19th MYL Raising Day
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, February 16 2023:
The proscribed Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup (KYKL) observed the 19th Raising Day of its armed wing - Miyamgi Yawol Lanmi (MYL) as 'Lanmee gi Numit' on Thursday.
According to a KYKL statement issued by its publicity and research secretary A Yaiphaba, the Raising Day was observed at its CHQ, battalions and all units and sections within and outside Kangleipak (Manipur).
It said that the CHQ hosted the main event in the presence of key leaders of the organisation.
Hoisting of outfit's flag, floral tributes to cadres who sacrificed their lives for the cause of liberation movement and speech by chairman N Oken were highlights of the event.
The statement conveyed that chairman N Oken, in his speech, highlighted how the Kanglei people have been 'lumpenised' by Indian colonialism and have lost their revolutionary potential as a result.
The chairman's speech was purely an economic explanation on why the Kanglei revolutionary movement is heading south after more than 60 years of revolution.
As Oken pointed out, Delhi has no interest in increasing Kangleipak's productivity.
Rather, it wants to shrink the Kanglei economic base consequently resulting in waning of all Kanglei traditional skills.
Hence, every 'Kangleicha' must ask why India treats us this way and explain it rationally, the chairman said.
The statement further said that the chairman made an effort to use captive-market theory to explain the colonial process in a concise manner.
This theory argues that India seeks to make the state a captive market for sale of its commodities.
However, he went on to explain that while the captive-market theory partially explains the phenomenon, further study is needed in order to fully understand why India wants to keep Kanglei productive forces underdeveloped and how this is related to degeneration of people's consciousness, which makes it virtually impossible for us to ignite a revolution in the state.
On the basis of the state s existing economic status and its development since it was annexed, the chairman said that India never intended Kangleipak to acquire substantial productive forces.
He also argued that by making the people of Kangleipak totally reliant on Delhi's economic dole-outs, India has attempted to maintain the status quo of its colonial dominance in the state.
'Lumpenization' of Kanglei people is one of the most dangerous consequences of suppressing our productive forces by Indian colonial rulers.
In Manipur, the dehumanization of Kanglei people through Indian colonial economic policy is closely connected to drug menace, corruption, criminal activity, and youth immorality.
He pointed out that the two phenomena could not be viewed separately.
According to the chairman, the majority of Kanglei people are severely lumpenized, decomposed, and dehumanized.
In addition, the wealth gap has widened significantly in the society with some getting wealthier and others remaining in abject poverty.
More concerning is the fact that both groups of people utilise predatory methods to earn money, a trend dangerous for the revolutionary movement.
No matter how it affects the society, they will do whatever is necessary to further their objectives.
They will never be able to grasp the reality of their situation because of their regressive consciousness.
As a result, even they will not think of trying to change the social circumstances that dehumanize them.
Therefore, lumpenization is India's colonial effort to form reactionary elements within Kanglei society.
Delhi believes that by doing this, the Kanglei revolutionary movement will collapse owing to the reactionary elements within it without much effort on Delhi's part, N Oken said in his speech.
He identified two socio-economic classes in society, the lumpen proletariat and lumpen bourgeois, after analysing the Kanglei society and maintained that both would oppose the Kanglei revolution.
The two socio-economic strata, he said, were the offspring of the Indian colonial economy imposed in Kangleipak, where Delhi prohibited Kangleipak's own productive forces from growing, keeping the population reliant on Indian dole payments.
Oken cautioned that the lumpen elements present in Kanglei society, such as small time drug dealers, thieves, gang members, hustlers, etc., prey on each other in order to survive.
Besides, their physical selves are com pletely disconnected from their spiritual selves.
Their primary motivation is predatory behaviour.
These are the people who would rather play sycophancy to wealthy and powerful people rather than start a revolution.
They make money only through crime.
About the lumpen bourgeois, the chairman said that they are the ones who have amassed wealth through criminal activities.
They include corrupt contractors, drug lords, and dishonest bureaucrats.
Their illicit wealth will eventually allow them to rise to power.
Many of these individuals currently have seats in the Manipur state assembly.
Now that Lumpenisation has penetrated so deeply, Kanglei people have forgotten that they belong to an oppressed group of people.
Therefore, most of them do not feel the need to launch a revolutionary movement in Kanglei society, Oken argued.
Answering the question 'What shall we do now?' is an extremely important task for this generation of Kangleicha, he asserted and also stressed on the importance of equipping people with revolutionary consciousness if we are to create a new society.
Oken also pointed out that Indians want to lumpenize the Kanglei people so that they lack the consciousness to initiate a revolution.
This reality led the chairman to argue that the only chance of fighting colonialism lies in mass proletarianisation.
By doing this, he argued, we could persuade the lumpen bourgeoisie and proletariat to become revolutionaries.
This would also enable us to broaden the social base of the Kanglei revolution, Oken said.
Concluding his speech, the chairman called on Kanglei revolutionary organisations to unite in spirit and ideology for resisting Indian colonialism and build the Kanglei so ciety that all Kanglei people aspire for.