[portpecos]

It’s not pejorative. Naxals are supporters of the militant political organisation that claims the legacy of the Communist Party of India.

In fact, Urban youth are specifically targeted to spread the communist teachings of Mao Zedong.

They fund themselves through the Drug Trade, and 40% of funding for the Naxals comes through cultivation and distribution of drugs.

[hannofcart]

What you are doing there is lumping concerned urban dissidents with the largely rural Naxal movement.

The Naxal movement may indeed have the characteristics that you mentioned, but you have a long way to go before establishing any links between them and dissidents who simply disagree with the current powers-that-be.

[WillSlim95]

I have been studying reports on terrorism in India informally last 5 years and this comment is woefully inaccurate.

Every sentence in this is inaccurate.

[braindead_in]

How?

[WillSlim95]

Well I will start with the claim that "my every sentence is incorrect" was not completely true. There is some credence to the drug trade one.But the other claims are definitely spurious.Let me start with the most obvious one, Communists in urban areas are generally Marxist-Lenninst followers. They spend their time reading a lot of Das Capital and The Communist Manifesto, Mao's writings are not respected in these circles (Castro and Stalin are respected somehow).

Naxals are the followers of Mao, no doubt. But urban communits in general don't think highly of Mao at all. They only think of protesting and disobedience . They may have some overlapping causes.

Calling all communists as naxals is lazy and sloppy thinking.

Naxalites are a mix of goons and insurgents who loosely care about communist beliefs. They used to be most prevalent in lawless and hinterland areas,nowadays their influence is a lot less.

Source :- Briefly dated a communist.

Don't care about communism. But believe that if it has to be opposed,understand it.

But the fact is the term urban naxals is a meaningless pjeroative used against those who hold opinions different from the current Indian government.

It is even used against those who don't believe in communism at all.