ON ELECTION-EVE IV At the Crossroads: Democracy or Authoritarianism?
Kumaresh Chakravarty Conflict management is becoming increasingly difficult under the liberalisation regime. The state is likely to be caught between the contrary pulls and pressures of international capital, domestic big and small capital in industry and services, and the rich peasant-landlord continuum. It may resort to systematic use of direct force to tide over these conflicts, depending upon unification between surplus- appropriating classes and the strength of democratic resistance countervailing such a recourse.
