This is a comment on CPI(ML)-Liberation's analysis of the 2014 elections.
Good analysis. But the "interpretations in various ways" is not enough, "the need remains to change it".
Where do we, the communists/leftists (affiliated and non-affiliated both) stand? In 1950s-60s, the combined left was the main opposition in the parliament due to ideological base outside. Where has that disappeared? Adopting as a tactic the electoral policy for "wrecking from within" as a platform for spreading the revolutionary ideas to organize the workers and peasants into a Class for itself, the communists began to disintegrate into factions and in course of time parties like CPI/M became qualitatively indistinguishable from other parliamentary parties and underground movement in the late 1860s was substantially suppressed/crushed for the lack of overground support and for the same reason the voice of dissent are being summarily silenced in the name of link with Naxals. There are over 2 dozen claimants of the legacy of the Naxalbari, many of them with hardly visible presence.
We all need serious introspection/retrospection and reassessment of the objective reality and existing form and level of social consciousness and forge a broad anti-fascist unity giving up self-righteous arrogance and in the process sort out differences. The unaffiliated, self-claimed leftists too would have roles. People bring out revolutions, not the parties. Parties and radical intellectuals help them becoming "class-for-itself" from the "class-in-itself" and in that task we have miserably failed.As far as 31% votes is concerned, it has always been like that. The history of the communal Right in India is as old as that of the Left. They have expanded their network to the deepest grass roots level and we with the advantage of being equipped with a radical science-- Marxism-- and ideological commitment for a just society, have been marginalized.
We really need serious rethinking. This is not to criticize any party but self-criticism.
We shall unite, fight and win.
Objective factor of revolution -- the crisis (maturing the contradiction) of capitalism, the general crisis -- has presented itself more than once but primarily because of the absence of the subjective factors -- the working Class-for-itself -- and the capitalism's knack of recovery prevented the spontaneous upsurges world over. One of the blessings in disguise of 2014 polls is that demolished the myth of taken for granted vote bank and hopefully some sense of introspection among the so-called custodians of revolution. That is why Che Guerra over emphasized on the need of socialist education. Study classes of parties and their fronts; TUs have become the matter of the past
Good analysis. But the "interpretations in various ways" is not enough, "the need remains to change it".
Where do we, the communists/leftists (affiliated and non-affiliated both) stand? In 1950s-60s, the combined left was the main opposition in the parliament due to ideological base outside. Where has that disappeared? Adopting as a tactic the electoral policy for "wrecking from within" as a platform for spreading the revolutionary ideas to organize the workers and peasants into a Class for itself, the communists began to disintegrate into factions and in course of time parties like CPI/M became qualitatively indistinguishable from other parliamentary parties and underground movement in the late 1860s was substantially suppressed/crushed for the lack of overground support and for the same reason the voice of dissent are being summarily silenced in the name of link with Naxals. There are over 2 dozen claimants of the legacy of the Naxalbari, many of them with hardly visible presence.
We all need serious introspection/retrospection and reassessment of the objective reality and existing form and level of social consciousness and forge a broad anti-fascist unity giving up self-righteous arrogance and in the process sort out differences. The unaffiliated, self-claimed leftists too would have roles. People bring out revolutions, not the parties. Parties and radical intellectuals help them becoming "class-for-itself" from the "class-in-itself" and in that task we have miserably failed.As far as 31% votes is concerned, it has always been like that. The history of the communal Right in India is as old as that of the Left. They have expanded their network to the deepest grass roots level and we with the advantage of being equipped with a radical science-- Marxism-- and ideological commitment for a just society, have been marginalized.
We really need serious rethinking. This is not to criticize any party but self-criticism.
We shall unite, fight and win.
Objective factor of revolution -- the crisis (maturing the contradiction) of capitalism, the general crisis -- has presented itself more than once but primarily because of the absence of the subjective factors -- the working Class-for-itself -- and the capitalism's knack of recovery prevented the spontaneous upsurges world over. One of the blessings in disguise of 2014 polls is that demolished the myth of taken for granted vote bank and hopefully some sense of introspection among the so-called custodians of revolution. That is why Che Guerra over emphasized on the need of socialist education. Study classes of parties and their fronts; TUs have become the matter of the past
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