That Mahinda Rajapakse has proved to be a corrupt, murdering intolerable, nepotistic-dynastic mafia despot is certainly true. It is also true that he has fatally endangered national sovereignty and independence by playing into the game of inter-imperialist geo-politics. He has rained fear and terror on the people upon the ashes and ruins of freedom, democracy and decency as no other. He must be thrown out of power and be prevented from extending his tenure for the third time- at whatever cost. The Maithripala Sirisena candidacy and its coalition of forces is the only viable force in town to throw him out through an electoral victory. The chances of that possibility are multiplying. This in turn provokes the Rajapakse Regime to close ranks and fight to win the election by hook and by crook, if not by the ballot, then by the bullet. If it loses, it must be prepared with the options and scenarios of holding on to State power through whatever means, as corrupt, tin-pot despots do. This could be by spreading a reign of white terror and unleashing the dark forces of communal carnage, declaring a martial law regime and bringing the whole State and System under its military command. This would be legitimized on the basis of an alleged and manufactured ‘crisis of national security, backed by imperialist powers”. Patriotism may be energized to a new pitch of neo-fascist frenzy. A state of civil war between imperialist proxies may be on the cards. One way out of this scenario would be to strike a deal with Mahinda Rapakse that in the event he loses, he and his dynasty would not be harmed or punished, but be well looked after. What a game of crooked poker! Are the people to be deceived, manipulated and sacrificed at the catacombs of intra ruling class machinations and battles for power? Are they to be divided against and slaughter each other for the sake of preserving the State and System that oppresses and imprisons them? Should we not alert the people as to the real threats, the real game and the real class enemies at play, and on this basis empower them to make their conscious choice, while advancing their own independent class interests? Even if that would mean to vote Maitripala to power as the immediate tactical means of getting some fleeting democratic space and opportunity to prepare themselves to wage their own revolutionary class struggle on their own independent terms? Kumar David calls himself a Marxist. What kind of Marxist he is can be seen when he adulates the JVP as “his favorite among Lanka’s mass parties that won’t soil itself in capitalist business”. Kumar David, like his counterpart JVP is infected with Trotskyite delirium and dementia. The JVP has indeed soiled themselves in the sewer of capitalist business. They brought Mahinda Rapakse and the Regime to power. They formed the ideological vanguard in the patriotic war to defend the ‘motherland’. They have constructed, defended and advanced the unitary Comprador Capitalist State with exemplary loyalty and commitment. All this under the banner of Socialism! The Frontline Socialist Party is to be respected for having split its ways with the JVP, even though they have to dig deeper to fully eradicate some of its ideological baggage. Kumar David is one rank revisionist who shines the halo of Marxism on the most vile and treacherous revisionist parties that has sold out the revolution to become the trusted guardians of imperialism and the Neo-Colonial Comprador Capitalist State. A revolutionary Marxist would stand with the oppressed in the class struggle against the system of oppression and its enforcers. Through whatever twists and turns he would be on the side of the revolutionary class struggle of the proletariat and oppressed masses. He would not manipulate the masses into supporting this or that fraction of the comprador ruling class or contending imperialist power. Even when it becomes tactically correct to isolate a fascist threat to freedom and democracy by aligning with progressive, liberal-bourgeois democratic forces, A Marxist would take all efforts to unite, organize and mobilize the masses and build their independent creative initiative and fighting capacity for advancing the revolutionary class struggle towards the mass seizure of State power. The diagnosis, the surgical procedures and the prescriptions offered by Dr. Kumar David serve to disarm, disorient, blunt and derail the revolutionary class struggle of the masses and to tie them to the wheels of imperialist machination and neo-colonial domination. “Thank god, I am not a Marxist. I have sown dragon’s teeth and harvested fleas”, Marx had proclaimed with utter repugnance.