Tuesday 23 September 2008

Maoists dream government: Women's Utopia

By U Sudhakar Reddy
Documents seized by intelligence sleuths reveal that Maoists are aiming to convert areas under their control into a women’s utopia of sorts.
According to the Maoists, their ‘government’ will set up laundries, crèches and kitchens for the public to liberate women from the chains of domestic toil and to ensure their participation in social production.
The left wing extremists have also decided to rehabilitate sex workers and ensure them social respect.
Some of these concepts have already been implemented in the Dandakaranya forests of Chhattisgarh where the Maoists are running a parallel government.
“The Maoist government will put end to discrimination against women and will strive to end male domination and patriarchy,” says the document.
“It is an idealistic society according to the documents,” said a police officer involved in antiMaoist operations.
“They have been implementing prohibition and social farming in villages they control.” Maoists are also aiming to confiscate banks, business enterprises and companies of “imperialist capital”. They will confiscate land belonging to landlords and religious institutions and redistribute it among the landless poor.
Maoists term their promised land “Voluntary Union of Peoples Democratic Federal Republics of India”.
In the 'voluntary Union of Peoples Democratic Federal Republics of India' of Maoists the marriages shall be on the basis of mutual love and agreement. The age limit for marriage would be 20 years and all child marriages are banned.
"Widow marriages will be encouraged and women shall have a right to abortion. Divorces are granted if both husband and wife wish and if only one them asks for the Maoist state makes investigation and announce the decision, In cases of children men must take two third parts and women one third part of the responsibility. It is the responsibility of men to repay the loans after marriage," says the document.
Peoples governments are formed at district and village levels.
Maoist have also decided to set up museums with the belongings of the martyrs and special care to be taken to the families of those who laid down their lives in red revolution. The documents also speak about the election and structure of the government.

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