The Sirisena Dilemma & Emerging Scenarios

By Surendra Ajit Rupasinghe –June 9, 2015

Ajit Rupasinghe

The dilemma faced by President Maitripala Sirisena and the way it is to be resolved will determine the course of future events and the emergence of possible scenarios. This dilemma concentrates the long-simmering, accumulated structural pressures, conflicts and contradictions of the Lankan State and Political Order. It ties them into a knot, demanding effective, radical solutions. The Sirisena Dilemma expresses what appears to be a mortal contest between the forces of ‘liberal-bourgeois democracy’ Vs the forces of ‘chauvinist, neo–fascist reaction’. That is what it appears to be. The truth is that the Sirisena Dilemma gives concentrated expression to the crisis of the neo-colonial Capitalist State. It is an organic, structural crisis that neither the bourgeois liberal democratic agenda nor the chauvinist-fascist agenda can solve the crisis.

Together, in their interaction, they can only exacerbate the crisis. This is since they are the twin organic components of the Capitalist dictatorship. They are the twin weapons of enforcement of the bourgeois dictatorship. In the era of imperialism, the historically progressive content of bourgeois democracy in the era of rising Capitalism is long negated, when it becomes a weapon for enforcing imperialist domination and neo-colonial subjugation. We in Lanka know how white fascist state terror is organically and inextricably interwoven with all the trappings of liberal bourgeois democracy. Revolutionaries know that these trappings and these deadly illusions are there only to cover the real naked, fascist-terrorist class essence of the Capitalist Dictatorship. We know how one feeds off the other and take turns in nurturing the real relations of domination, exploitation and oppression that forms the foundation of Capitalism.

Sirisena and his agenda for a ‘national government’ may be the final desperate option of a rotting and bleeding State. Sirisena’s role in history could be to bring this façade of irreconcilable antagonism between Fascism and Bourgeois Democracy to its highest pitch of explosive concentration, so that the sheer accumulated rot of the Colonial Capitalist State will be finally incinerated in the burning anger of the betrayed masses. Sirisena’s Dilemma may well call forth a revolutionary crisis, which could very well be turned into a revolutionary situation. For that we will need a genuine revolutionary party based on an advanced, scientific revolutionary theory, line and leadership, and an organization of professional revolutionary soldiers.          Read More