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One step to revelution - letter - (no publication)
V. Sagar
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21 June 1996
Title : One step to revolution - letter
Author : V. Sagar
Publication :
Date : June 21, 1996
Apropos the article, "One step to revolution" by K
Govindan Kutty (June 10), it is obvious that communists
all over in India in general, and those in India in
particular are most inconsistent. When communism was
brought to India via London (courtesy Harold Laski and
Robinsons), they have been hunting with the hounds and
running with the hare, depending on the orders received
from their masters in the now defunct USSR.
After the so-called revolution, starting with the Meerut
Conspiracy case in 1924, failed to take off, they went on
changing the postures depending on the exigencies of the
situation, and instructions from their masters, including
Stalin, Mao, Che Guevera and Castro. Since they found a
great sympathiser in Jawaharlal Nehru, they went on
propagating their views among those who wre prepared to
be misled their propaganda about the "heaven in USSR" and
dictatorship of the probletariat. They have been the
greatest enemies of nationalism and indigenous culture
because in their perception these were the hurles to
their ascendance. The somersault of Indian communists in
1942, their derogatory observations about Gandhiji, Nehru
and Bose, their reaction to the Independence in 1947 and
the launching of armed rebellion in Telagana sum of their
devious strategy.
When Indian communists first participate in a democratic
form of government, they declared that they wanted to
wreck it from inside, but instead of doing so, they
became part ofit. Against this background the role of the
communists in supporting the UF Government and the
indecisiveness of their various constituents on the
question of joining the government has to be judged. As
mentioned by Kutty, "someleading communists, till a few
years ago, went on to explain away their participation in
elections and the parliamentary process as only an
attempt to explore the inherent inadequacy of labour
geois democracy."
Insofar as the amelioration of the conditions of masses
and ushering in of secularism is concerned, the 19-year-
long rule under Comrade Basu in West Bengal is hardly
reassuring on either count.
The fact is that although communism is an international
phenomenon, the Indian communists are now at the cross-
road because of return of democracy in the erstwhile
USSR, and the failure to recruit fresh cadres. They now
even claim that they are not against religion. This is
all the more reason why what they do or don't has to be
watched carefully.
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