Monitoring Indian Communists - 2

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India, Nepal and Left Praxis

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->That upsurge also has an important bearing upon  the practice of Left politics in India.  <b>It would be intellectually remiss of India’s  Maoists to simply ignore the enormous significance of the choice that their counterparts in Nepal have made. Just as it would also be somewhat snooty of the two main communist parties of India not to press the implications of the Nepal happening to strive for broader Left unity</b>.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Assured of wide-ranging mass support, thanks to the unprecedented oppression wrought by ‘globalisation,’ they seem to have recognized that the most effective way at the present juncture to counter and neutralize imperialist designs is <b>to acquire overground legitimacy</b> through the ballot box.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->In consonance with Lenin’s stipulations, there is a recognition here that where social organization teeters on the feudal or the communal-fascist, <b>communists have the all-important task of protecting the more progressive aspects of bourgeois development, while striving to forge mass awareness and mass movements that can promise further advances by bringing greater and more diverse numbers into the Peoples’ Democratic Revolution</b>.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The larger question, however, remains.  <b>Given a world-wide endorsement of the legitimacy of State violence and the paucity of regimes willing any longer to aid armed revolutions in other countries</b> on the one hand, and, on the other, the deepening of democratic consciousness among <b>India’s working people  and oppressed masses, coupled with their willingness to agitate</b>, is it not perhaps time to join those others in many parts of the world who are opting for the Peoples  Democratic Revolutionary path?  <b>At a time when the Left coalition wields some clout over governance in India, such a bold rethink would seem feasible for obvious reasons.</b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->A United Communist Party of India could genuinely aspire to transform the character of the Indian parliament, from whence much else could follow.  Let me conclude with some further wise words from Lenin:

  “Complete victory over capitalism cannot be won unless the
  proletariat, and following it, the mass of working people. . .
  voluntarily strive for alliance and unity”. (2)

<b>After all, the last thing that India’s immiserated masses deserve is a communist movement fragmented in half a dozen different formations along diverse practices.</b>
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