This was really an excellent movie that shows the birth of a class warrior, a revolutionary from the suppression of his mother within his home. The intimate oppression of women seems to lead the young man to take up the cause of the oppressed in joining the Naxalites until his death. The other interesting angle, is the conversion of his mother into an activist when she learns more about the deeds of her son. This is a really great movie.
You can't compare the USSR and China to the Naxalites. The ills of Chinese and Russian communism came in their attempt to enforce a status quo after they had achieved victory rather than a revolutionary movement yet to achieve success that engaged in revolutionary violence to liberate the oppressed. Perhaps if the Naxalites had won, they'd have eventually also become a tyrannical status quo, but to say this would be to engage in some rather speculative pseudo-history that might not take into account, small but essential differences between these various Marxist revolutionary movements.
Did the naxalites kill? sure they did. What about the landlords and upper castes who oppress the peasants? Do they not commit violence too? The Naxalites killed landlords and oppressors of the people who got their justly deserved end. Peaceful methods have never been very successful at resolving class conflict. JP Narayan and Vinoba Bhave's movements never really alleviated much of the suffering of the rural peasantry. The Naxalites gave them a way to fight back against their oppressors, a movement dedicated to the liberation of the oppressed. I was very happy to see a movie on this subject.
You can't compare the USSR and China to the Naxalites. The ills of Chinese and Russian communism came in their attempt to enforce a status quo after they had achieved victory rather than a revolutionary movement yet to achieve success that engaged in revolutionary violence to liberate the oppressed. Perhaps if the Naxalites had won, they'd have eventually also become a tyrannical status quo, but to say this would be to engage in some rather speculative pseudo-history that might not take into account, small but essential differences between these various Marxist revolutionary movements.
Did the naxalites kill? sure they did. What about the landlords and upper castes who oppress the peasants? Do they not commit violence too? The Naxalites killed landlords and oppressors of the people who got their justly deserved end. Peaceful methods have never been very successful at resolving class conflict. JP Narayan and Vinoba Bhave's movements never really alleviated much of the suffering of the rural peasantry. The Naxalites gave them a way to fight back against their oppressors, a movement dedicated to the liberation of the oppressed. I was very happy to see a movie on this subject.