Filth, No More Blood
January 3, 2008
Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s knack for coming out with ridiculous comments doesn’t seem to have died with Nandigram. Here he goes again at a function to mark the anniversary of a CPI-M mouthpiece -
The reality has forced us to accept capitalism as the only way to get funds for industries. We are aware of the filth that is inherent in capitalism but there is no other way at the moment.
I have never understood this Marxist obsession with ideological purity, which obviously reduces all other philosophies to filth. I’m always reminded of E M Forster’s wonderful quote who called reformers like these ‘obsessed with purity and who cannot see that their obsession is impure.’
Instead of blood in the name of ideological puritanism, give me filth any day.
