Cultural Marxist attacks on Hindu festivals 

Marxism is a century old socio-economic totalitarian system which many people are very familiar with and don’t need much of an introduction. However, cultural Marxism practiced by the Left-Liberal ecosystem in India & West is an evolved, sounding lofty, politically correct, and much more virulent & sinister ideology. Cultural Marxism is a very broad term which refers to advocacy and application of critical theory to influence and change culture, politics and academia. Critical theory by definition assumes majority as privileged and minorities as oppressed. By pitting an identified group as majority against minority, it is all about driving the wedge between the two groups & dividing the society further and further. Cultural Marxism gave birth to terminologies like social justice, feminism, minority rights etc., which are used by loosely by almost every Left liberal & political leaders to question and challenge the identity of Hindus in India.

This challenge to identity or a festival doesn’t happen overnight in a haphazard manner. Instead the targets are chosen well in advance, strategies are methodically planned on how to attack an identity/festival, then pursed over years by creating enough atrocity literature to engineer the opinion of the masses through media, academia and legal activism. In this blog I’m trying to deconstruct the strategy into 4 major steps. The attack on Hindu religious identities and festivals etc are in different stages but are being pursued by a well-funded ecosystem. None of the ridiculous PILs that land in Supreme Court doors are by accident.

As explained in the beginning, minorities by definition are oppressed. In Indian context, there are only two minority groups Christianity and Islam. The rest like sikh, jain, parsi are never considered as minority for the narrative. These 2 Abrahamic faiths together with the cultural Marxist form the core of Missionary-Mullah-Marxist (3M) Mafia complex. Typically clubbed along with Dalits atrocity literature for legitimacy of oppression, rights of Dalits is the first scape goat sacrificed for the benefit of this 3M Mafia complex.

Stage One – Guilt trip

Arrival of atrocity literature in media Op-Ed is a first sign that a target is chosen by this Mafia ecosystem. This slow poison never calls for a ban openly. Instead the soul aim is to guilt trip people those who celebrate a festival. Typically hiding behind concern for environment, pollution, health concerns, well-being of animals, patriarchy & feminism, etc., (without any basis on facts). I personally like to call these Op-Ed writers as Demonters who suck the happiness out of various festivals with their verbal diarrhea.

Example - Ganesh Visarjan is water pollution, Raksha bandhan/Karva Chauth are patriarchy, bursting crackers for Deepavali is making animals scared etc.

Stage Two – DE-legitimization

Once the stage is set with Op-Ed over years to engineer public opinion, a harmless PIL will be filed in some lower court to regularize the celebration of festival in some manner. All these Op-Eds will be pointed out as reference along with a bogus victim narrative to call for a ban if possible.

Example - Jallikattu ban, Cracker ban, limit on Dahi handi height, cock fight ban, etc., to name a few.

Note: In these 2 phases’ animal cruelty during Eid, ecological concerns for Christmas tree, air pollution on New year will never be discussed. Legal wins to stop a festival completely is typically mission accomplished for the ecosystem. If this phase fails comes the ground work for the next level of attack

Stage Three – Secularization

                Inculturation or Identity theft of festivals happen at a much more subtle level again at this stage. Instead of atrocity literature, the festival is typically stripped off its religious significance by the demonters (Op-Ed writers) of the Mafia ecosystem. This lays the ground work for digestion by other faiths for similar sounding festival over a period of time. We can see the example of this in Christianity in festivals especially easter with Easter Egg

Example - Holi is no more about burning of Holika but a festival of color, Onam is no more a vamana jayanthi but only a new year, Pongal is no more worship of Sun but a Tamil festival, Deepavali is no more arrival of Rama to Ayodya but a festival of light. Jallikattu kaalai coming out of Vaadivaasal especially the temple bull is now coming from Church/Mosque.

Stage Four – Digestion (Appropriate)

                Once this festival of Tamil, Malayalam, light, color etc., are mainstreamed. Any attempt to re-associate with its Hindu roots are condemned as conspiracy to take away the celebratory fervor of all the people or termed regressive. Thus the original source is undermined. Rajiv Malhotra rightly diagnosed this appropriation by the cultural Marxist from left & Indologist in the west and coined a right term ‘Digestion’ to this phenomenon.

Example - Amit shah was condemned for wishing Vamana jayanthi, Holi is becoming Holi run in US, Dandiya of Navartri became a workout, Vipassana became mindfulness, Yoga became exercise.

Once we understand this strategy of cultural Marxism, we can easily observe how almost all major festivals in India are under attack in different stages, the motivation of political language used by Congress & media, the motive with which laws like CVB, RTE etc are getting drafted.

With this I conclude and I wish more people are able to see through this cultural Marxist game of Left-liberal ecosystem and learn to counter attack this narrative. Let us celebrate our festivals with pride in its original spirit.