Long Live India's Communist Revolution: Bourgeoise Distortortions

India's Communist Revolution is over 90 years old and still young, promising and kicking. But for the continous Marxist-Leninist-Stalinist-Maoist revolution, Indian capitalism and bourgeoisie class would have either completely sold the country to the Western capitaist countries and the exploited classes would have suffered complete immiserisation that would have left none with energy enough to sustain the revolution for long and experience the class-less socialism waiting to be established in infinite time.

Continuing Indian communist revolution has brought immense benefits to the Indian's. The movement reportedly made a strong supportive contribution to the process of the creation of Pakistan (and East Bengal's inclusion in it for the benefit of the Muslims to enjoy a majority status by going out of India. It was good for the Muslims to free themselves of the Hindu majority India. It helped the Indians to reduce the incidence of communal riots and wars within Indian terrotories. And, it helped the communist movement in India too: no need to invent a separate non-secular Islamic Ciommunist Revolutuion and yet keep the opportunity of building up of an anti-Hindu secular dimension to the Indian communist movement. This historiacal strategies would keep the communist movement relevant to the Indian exploited classes.

Earlier, the communists had identified Tagre as a bourgeoisie poet whose poems and songs could help shape the development of the communist songs for enthusing exploited people to join the communists struggle movement. For similar reasons, they averted a great diaster that would have befallen India if Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose aided by the Fascist, capitalist Germany and Japan to over run the British Army in India taking advantage of the initial World War II conditions breaking the backbone of the British. Fortunately, Stalin hoisted the Communist Flag in Berlin and the US caused the nuclear devastation in Japan to save the future of communist movement in India.

Communist Movement in India helped the flourishing business of trade union leaders. If the labor was exploited, they organised support to them and helped extract better pay and reduced hours of work so that capitalist exploitation reduces in both public and private sector industries. And, when the capitalists were still making money, communist movement successfully brought the factories down with militant trade unionism and ensured immeserisation of some factory workers time to time to generate small pilot demostrations of what Maex had dreamt about repeated crises of capitalism and immiserisation of the working class. At the same time, they had mostly glued themselves to Parliamentary democracy, participating in elections to keep the opportunity to become rulers to acquire the experience of governing before they are able to establish the dictatorship of the proletariat or, rather proletariat statehood in India. .


So the communist movement in India was from the very beginning so appropriately adapted to Indian conditions . Of course, as scientific Marxism demands, unlike any other scientific or non-scientific thing, differences in view about the the nature of Indian conditions and the intensity of their ripeness to launch the final revolution for transformation to proletariat dictatorship, the strategies to be pursued and the methods to be deployed. Debating in Parliament and elected bodies was good enough for the only Russia addicted CPI, fighting elections to capture power through the influence of militant trade unions on workers, organising poor peasants against the non-communist governments, organiinsg violent protests against increase in taport fares to put trams on fire and inciting police to kill protestors and organising rallies in support of Vietnameses struggle against the US forces have been the cornerstone of the increasinglly Chinese addicted CPM, violent peasant rovolt and killing of policemen and rural wealthy have been the strategies of the Naxalites and freeing relatively inaccessible areas near forests away from State administration and police as as also members/ supporters of political parties participating in democratice elections by organising gureilla warfare with smuggled arms and looting banks/ extorting the poor and the waelthy in different areas have been the methoid of the Maoists.

All factions of the communist movement have contributed greatly to the uplift of tpoor as well as keeping them under poverty to keep the dream of class less dictatorship of the proletariat happy. And, also they have successfully engaged the non-communist political parties in power to use tax money, borrowed money and savers money deposited in the banks to implement grand schemes of subsidies to the poor, middle class, workers and farmers to make the State drive itself to banruptcy to create ripe conditions for a proletarian takeover. And, the more the state spendings the higher is the leakage away from the intendended poor beneficiaries and encouragement to the corrupt. Corruption is bleeding India. With competitive efforts to arrest immiserisation and wastages through alarming spread and scale of corruption, all governments are rushing for employment guarantee, right to food, right to health care, right to education, right to shelter, the Indian economy is being driven to banruptcy so necessary to put capitalism to grave and establish the dictatorship of the proletariat.This is the only way that the docile Indians can be ultimately forced to accept and join the final revolution to capture power for them instead of clinging to dacaying democracy powered by votes cast by elections all round the year.

What is the current stage of the communist revolution in India.? The communists have not been able to gather more than 8% of Indian votes, but had come to power in three States of West Bengal, the birthplace of Indian communism, Tripura, another Bengali laguage dominate State and Kerala. During 2004-2009 the CPM-led Left Front ruled the roost: called the shots supporting a Ciongress coalition at the Center, stopping all reforms that even the bulk of the congresmen disliked and then forcing a National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme that will quicken the bankruptcy of the Indian Government unless other subsidies are drastically cut down in a short time. Then the CPM withdrew support to Congress coalition as the 123 Nuclear Deal was being signed by India with the US. In the Parliamentary Elections in 2009 the CPM got routed and became a small irrelevant minority in the Lok Sabha. In 2011 elections, the CPM failed to regain Kerala and even with 40% a share of votes lost power in West Bengal where the Trinamool secured 185 out of the 296 seats against CPM led Left Front tally of 60+ seats. All of a suddeen CPM slid from the height of arrogance to a pitiable conditions. Now the CPM is preparaing to fight back.

The efforts to revive the dream of 'proletariat dictatorship', earlier replaced by 'proletariat statehood' seemed to have failed in the current year's Party Congress session in Kerala. What is the Marxian prognosis and outlook. The conditions are turning favourable to the Communist movement. CPM sees that the capitalist economies are running from crises to crises as predicted by Marx: from the Financial crises that spread from the US to European capitalist states. Japan continues in dolddrum stagnancy. Russia regaining strength and China becoming the second largest economy of the World with a dominating presence in world trade. Capitalism is crumbling with financial crisis yeilding place to sovereign debt crisis and Europe in deep recession. As the debt crisis is being solved, seeds of new crises are being sown in capitalism. Globalisation has led to increased inequality in capitalistic states and common people are increasingly becoming communists even in the US. They are trying to capture the stock markets - the gambling den designed to ensure immiserisation of the working class to enthuse them to revolt against capitalism. Within India, the state and private capitalism is in doldrums: economy growth has slowed down and hardly any private sector investment taking place for the past two years. The oulook is grim: government of India has no economic or political solution toarress immiserisation of the Indian working class and small farmer dominated agricultural class. Prices have gone out of control and remains high. Weak coalition Government at the center is politically non-functioning, having to manage crisis after crisis with every now and then threat of withdrwal of support from regional party coalition partners black mailing the Congress Prime Minister Man Mohan Singh. Very ideal conditions to take the communist revolution a few steps ahead quickly.

Which path will CVPM pursue now? It had studied and analysed all models - the Russian, the Chinese, the North Korean, the Vietnamese and the Latin American. They have concluded that each of these models suffer from a few or more deficiencies. Obviously, they discard the deficiencies of the Chinese globalisation networking with the capitalist world, rise in inequality in the recent decades and expansionism with an eye on India's Arunachal Pradesh. They do not like the North Koreal Model of undemocratic dynastic communism: father communist president choosing his son as his successor. But these are the only two states ruled by poltical parties with communist title in the World that are the bold challangers of the US Imperialism. So, both China and North Korea remain socialist countries to draw emotional, psychological strength from. Vietnam's communisim has gone ashtray with trade relations with US and disputes with China. Cuba has turned dynastic communistsm. The socialism being structured in democratic structure in Venezuela and Bolivia, these countries cannot be accepted as socialist countries in communist dictionary because then India would be already close to communist socialism. Indian communists are to pick up only the strong points from various models and are now putting them together for evolving a model adapted to India's caste-based/ quota and reservation based socio-economic conditions.

What about 'inner party' democracy? Well democracy is not consistent with communist movement. There can be genuine differences of opinion. But the task of democratic centerism is to convince the people with opinions different from the central leadership (not high command, of course) and wean them away from dissent and make them as disciplined as most members are. This may dissatisfy the intellectuals wedded to the extreme ideals of proletariat dictatoship on the one hand and of democracy everywhere on the other hand. But intellectualism was largely left behind with the orinal CPI at thetime of division. CPM will continue to be led by articulate and sophisticated policymakers and strategists with support from a disciplined force of practical members with popularity and mass muscle power. And, all will remain united till such time American Imperialism and European Capitalism do not meet their natural demise in historical time.

For now, CPM will not commit the same mistakes that they did while in power indirectly by being supporter of UPA1 Congress Coalition government in delaying the withdrawal of support to Congress in a bid to usher in a third non-BJP, non-Congress coalition to power. It cannot do the same mistake now with a negligible presence in the Parliament and complete absence in most state-level legislative assemblies. CPM will not again commit the same mistake of interpreting two-third majority in a State assembly as equivalent to unlimited power to acquire land for industrialisation from farmers as had happenedin West Bengal during 2004-06: they cannot repeat the mistake as they are now out of power in West Bengal.

Over the next few years, CPM will strengthen the party and party's relationship with as many households as possible. The party will revove the current deficiency of non-Bengai dominated central leadership dependent on Bengal-dominated membership base. Thedependence on a just three states is imprudent. Hence for the first time CPM will endeavour to build up a mass membership base all over India including the Hindi-belt. There will be special membership drives to recruit new, young members and supporters dedicated to the ideas of Marxit communism. This will help them to organise popular protest rallies, increaetheir muscle power and other powers to infiltrate the millions of households not yet tapped. The objective is to increase their strength in the next Lok Sabha Elections in 2014 and then regain power in West Bengal in 2016. Maybe by then CPM would have enough Lok Sabha seats to be a dominant and active parter in a non-Congress, non-BJP coalition government. That would be the beginning of the proletariat participation in Government of India - the first baby steps on the way to proletariat staehood socialism. Long live communist revolution.