Every Rape is a STATE rape

Rape – Political Weapon

That Rape is being used for Political purposes – is a foregone conclusion. That Rape is used as a weapon of oppression is a similar conclusion as well. That Rape is a power proposition of the worst kind is even an older conclusion. But that every Rape is political is not nationally discoursed, discussed and debated.

Yes, every rape in a moribund bourgeois state is political when especially the nation-state deliberately does not convict rape cases and even when convicts do not commute the sentences. In India how many horrendous rapes have met their ultimate sentence – probably one in two decades? That is what makes every rape political in this nation-state space.

A rape committed on one individual is an act of mass threaten and mass destruction of the sense of security and assurance on a power and opportunity-handicapped community minoritzed in action- that is women. A single rape is thus a mass rape [not gang rape] on every woman in this nation-state as is being funnelled and flared up by the mass media these days. When on every 30 seconds one girl gets abused in this country then we do not need to have any other weapon to peg down the women. They are marginalized and minoritized through power marginalization. This is one important case where numerical equal or near majority actually is doomed to being a minority [ the threat of rape to every women in Kerala, Arunachal Pradesh Mizoram is also as strong as in the other states] .

The sheer volume and frequency of rape is a political weapon as it is being published. Instead of being a deterrent this publishing has increased the frequency of rape in recent times. It does not profess to subdue the numbers but the harmful effect is aggrandized when the conviction and commuting is rare. Rapists get a gala life in jail and know that nothing could be and would be proved other than the mere allegation, and even if it is proved the maximum punishment is a 7 years jail term where they would have protection within the jail.

This is no loophole of the law- this is the law, to be lean on the rapist and to put him away from vigilant public domain. Rapists need to be paraded and killing a rapist through death penalty is the most lenient punishment possible. Parading rapists daily and regularly in various neighbourhoods and letting them live simply on wrath and begging would have been much appropriate- but that would never be done as it smacks of peoples’ initiative [is any one sniffing socialistic measure here?] .

Rape is perpetrated here as a very calculated move by the STATE to peg down women on the streets.

The Indian ruling class has perfected its collective oppressive measures on every organized community that ever hit the streets- even the Sikhs, Muslims and other Kashmiris, Assamese and what not. This time it is taking on the entire women community as a whole. In every such step of collective community oppression they break the back of potential collective protests. The present government is now confronting the two most potentially powerful sections – the students and the women. It has long oppressed on class and caste lines, it is now testing the waters of big communities.

That is the challenge, if they can get away with it, permanent fascism would be onset. That makes women’s movement an integral movement of peoples’ emancipation and a duty of every domiciled entity in our nation-state.