Dimapur, May 6 (MExN): Preaching the socialist ideology advocated by the NSCN (IM) to its rank and file of the organisation, a top official of the underground outfit said that the socialist spirit governs and sustains the world and that it is the dynamic force behind the creation of nation-states.
Secretary of the Steering Committee NSCN (IM), Rh Raising while delivering a speech on ‘Council line during the Annual Council meeting held in May 2007’, at Camp Hebron, said that whether one admits it or not, the world is being governed and sustained by the socialist spirit, without which the world might have crumbled to many pieces, stated a press statement of his speech received here from the NSCN (IM).
He asserted in his speech that socialist spirit is the universal mind that sustains the world, and that man being created to be social being, is a part of society nation and the universe.
“We cannot see any other dynamic force behind the creation of nation-states than the socialist spirit” said Raising in the press note and added that the spirit is not foreign to the Nagas since the Nagas are socialist oriented people.
In this respect, the NSCN (IM) Steering Committee Secretary said that every member of the NSCN (IM) must be able to identify himself with the Naga national mind and global mind as well. “We must belong to the whole because we are part of the whole by nature, not by choice” he added.
Raising said that the people are saying that they do not see any socialist element in many members of the NSCN (IM), therefore in this respect, he said that the NSCN (IM) members must have the courage to break through the shells of individualism, materialism, divisionism and tribalism etc so that they become socialist persons.
Dwelling deeper in this point, Raising said that a socialist does not love one section of people and hates the other and added that a socialist person is a common wealth of the Naga people. “Our people believe that that every member of NSCN is a common wealth of the Naga people” said Raising.
Change or perish
Rh Raising also said that the NSCN (IM) is witnessing a moral degeneration and that they must either change or perish.
Change, he said begins from the individual and personal change precedes organizational change. He said that life lies in the seed so the seed of ‘free Nagalim’ is within the Nagas and added that the NSCN (IM) must be the ‘seed’.
Be revolutionary
Rh Raising urged the members of the NSCN (IM) to be revolutionary, however, he lamented that many NSCN (IM) members are not revolutionary. He fears that if the NSCN (IM) stops to be a revolutionary organisation, then another organisation more revolutionary than the NSCN (IM) would over take it. He said that Nagaland calls for revolution in all field be it learning, construction and recreation of Naga history and transformation of ‘swamps’ into ‘oasis’ in Nagaland, however, he said that it demands ‘quality’ and not number of persons. Participation in a revolution, according to Raising, is a life time job and not a part time one, a mission and not a career.
He said that revolution moves the world and that it is an ever growing creative sprit, “Let us therefore be revolutionary” he maintained.
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