Monitoring Indian Communists - 2

[acharya]

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Yes, you can have an example. Look at the IT scene. CPIM was opposed to IT till 2000. They have changed their attitude towards IT. IT has grown at 72 % rate since 2001.

IT has been declared an essential services sector. Last year CITU tried to organize a strike in the IT sector. Buddhadev Bhattacharya told the IT sector that they should just contact the police and he will get the CITU activists arrested. This attitude would have been unthinkable 5 years ago.  A CPIM CM, asking for arrest of CPIM cadre, was unthinkable even a few years ago.

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This is directly related to the IT becoming prominent among the middle class and IT people have become influencial in the policymaking in the center as well as states. The old ideas are no longer taken up by the middle class. The WB/CPI middle class and stars are losing influence in the national scene with IT taking the dominant mindshare among the middleclass.

The leftist/communist control the media and the mindshare of the middleclass in India.