The Reptilian Politics Of The Lizard & The Fall Of The JVP
Ajit Rupasinghe
The lizard is renowned for its ability to change colours at will to camouflage itself. That is a unique bio-chemical evolutionary trait specific to the species. The JVP should be preserved for all posterity as a supremely rare, antiquated museum showpiece and evolutionary specimen of the ‘Reptilian Politics of the Lizard’. Lanka’s unique contribution to evolutionary biology and mutant politics. I shall systematically enumerate this bio-chemical political trajectory of the evolution and transmogrification of the JVP. I feel qualified to engage in this endeavour because Don Rohana Patabandige Wijeweera was at one time a ranking member, who was consequently expelled from our party. That is, the Ceylon Communist Party (Maoist), led at that time by the late Comrade Sanmugathasan. This was due to his insidious chauvinism and rank petit-bourgeois opportunism. This chauvinism ran deep. One of the five lectures provided by the JVP in the march up to the 1971 insurrection, the JVP declared the Hill Country Tamil nationality as the “Fifth Column of Indian Expansionism” and defined this most exploited and degraded section of the working class as an enemy of the Revolution.
It is my opinion, the JVP was wiped out at the recent General Election mainly due to being rejected for its reptilian camouflage politics. The JVP is the foremost revisionist force that has betrayed the cause of Revolutionary Marxism and Socialism. No other ‘Left’ force has so tainted the red flag of Socialism, Revolution and Communism with the blood of the people, with naked, virulent chauvinism and served the Capitalist State and its ruling class in protecting and defending its Unitary State and its class dictatorship. Providing life-saving oxygen to the defunct, neo-colonial Capitalist State and then projecting itself as the only one and true Socialist liberator of the people requires such convoluted, kaleidoscopic gymnastics that even a trained circus lizard would find difficult to deliver. Somewhere along the sunburnt theatrics, the true colours of the Lizard is bound to be exposed and invoke the just revulsion of the poor and oppressed masses. That is mainly why the JVP was reduced to just six seats and why it had to drop off all its ‘good-governance’ pretensions and appoint defeated candidates to Parliament through the National List. The oppressed masses, although still deluded by bourgeois democratic politics and the game of elections, had no taste for the sun-scorched lizard, who could only bide time in supreme crimson camouflage until it can strike at its unsuspecting prey. This imagery may be so unfair on the lizard species, since, whatever it is, it does not have an insatiable lust for power and egoistical self-glory, as does this miserable mutant human political species.
*Photo /N. Sanmugathasan (right) with Mao Read More
