National Security
Self-criticism by Communists
Dt: 26/12/17
Self-criticism by Communists
The CPI is celebrating its 92nd Jayanti. It would be proper for it to indulge in self-criticism, a hallowed practice in the communist parties.
2. The RSS was also founded round about the same time as the CPI. The offshoot of RSS, the Jana Sangh / Bharatiya Janata Party is in power in 19 States and at the Center in Delhi. Why is it that the Communist Party is in power alternately BJP in Kerala and for long in the tiny state of Tripura only ? Did the more than 30-year rule of the Communist Parties make any difference to the poverty of people in West Bengal? Why is it that the BJP and its allies got 39% of the popular vote in the 2014 elections to the Parliament and how is it that all Communist Parties together got no more than 3% to 4 % ? Why is it that there is not one Communist Party but there are 8 of them above ground and quite a few underground waging war against the State of India ?
3. Why is it that communism is totally extinct in the former Soviet Union and East European countries wherein the aftermath of the Second World War Communist Party seized power ? Why is it that even China and Vietnam have abandoned the Communist economy and are satisfied with a single party rule in the name of the Communist Party? Why is it that in North Korea there is the most obnoxious dynastic rule in the name of communism ?
4. Why is it that the Communist Parties partner with the Muslim League and the casteist regional parties. Why is it that they go on issuing statements in the name of people and claim to have launched so many movements almost everyone against the government of the party in power but inspite of their claims of day and night serving the people, people don’t vote for them.
5. The reason is only one . The Communist Party’s record of anti-Hindu, anti-Indian polices and programs . Some of these are :
· Support to the two-nation theory ( Muslims & Hindus are two separate nations) of the Muslim League and its demand for partition of India and the creation of Pakistan ; waging war against the newly independent Nehru government during 1949-‘51; denouncing Subhash Chandra Bose as a running dog of Japanese fascism ; the CPI’s support to Indira Gandhi for and during the Emergency (1975-‘77) ; finding fault with India and not with China in the latter’s war against India in 1962; the Communist Party’s support to every demand of the Muslim League and Muslims in their separatism and special rights and privileges; the CPIs support to Nizam in 1947 in the Nizam’s declaration that he would not accede to Indian Union.
5. Communists in India are getting splintered into more and more parties as they get less and less peoples support. But their only success has been in occupying prestigious position in some Central Universities like the JNU, thanks to the gift they were given by Indira Gandhi in return for their support to her in 1969 when she split the Congress and was looking for street support. The Communist Party in fact, infiltrated its prestigious members like Mohan Kumara Mangalam, a Central Committee Member into Indira Congress. (555 words)
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