| Awaken Bharata |
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| Books By David Frawley |
| THE NEW MASKS OF COLONIALISM | |
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historical critique was naively Western and European. Marx wrote for
the working class of Europe, not the peasants of Asia, whom he did
not know. Marx was not opposed to Western civilization but felt that
communism was its real thrust and gift to the world. He saw
communism as the ultimate goal of the entire progressive movement
of Western civilization and gave little value to non-Western
models or values.
The result was that communism became a new power of colonialism and continued the same attack on indigenous cultures that previous missionary and capitalistic forces had set in motion. Communists, with their revolutionary zeal, were often more brutal in suppressing native religions and cultures and left their own mark of genocide that these regions are just beginning to recover from. While this damage is most evident in China, whose traditional culture communism almost destroyed during its cruel Cultural Revolution, its effects in India are also extensive, where it crippled the awakening of the nation. Communism in India remains an anti-Indian and anti-Hindu force that wants to eliminate the traditional culture of the region, for a leftist Western model that has already failed in the West. This Marxist colonialism continued the Westernization of the non-Western world. It made the people of distant lands subject not to the old kings and emperors of Europe but to Lenin and Stalin, the communist Czars, who were equally dictatorial and harsh in their ways, and equally foreign in their thought and action. It made the people believe in not the religious leaders of Europe like the pope or Jesus, but the prophets of communism, Marx and Engels, whose works were promoted with an almost religious fervor. |
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