The bogus claims and concocted facts projected by the CPM in ‘EMS Smriti’, a seminar organised in Kerala, need to be exposed
CK Saji Narayanan
In a seminar titled ‘EMS’ Smriti organised by CPM, Sitaram Yechury claimed that the October Revolution had radically changed the world! But he should explain how? After the reformations, like Perestroika and Glasnost, ushered in by Mikhail Gorbachev, the pathetic condition and apathy in the Communist-ruled states like Poland, Russia came to the fore. When Yechury calls for a Socialist Democracy, the looming question before us is if any Communist state in the world ever encouraged democracy or secularism?
The world realised the fact that Communist-ruled East Germany had been trailing behind the Capitalist West Germany, till the fall of the Berlin wall. The condition of the rest of the Communist-ruled states is in no way different. Hence, Yechury and Karat, who are in pursuit of an alternative for Capitalism, should return back to Bharatiyata. As did Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam, who evolved Vietnamese communism, Mao in China, Chinese Communism, Lenin in Russia- Russian Communism, why did Indian communists fail to shape Bharatiya Communism? Here people are misled by the apparently lucrative Utopian Communism. In stead, being a responsible political party, the CPM should create hope among cadres for an ideology which is in tune with Indian conditions.
Yechury and Karat, who are always vocal about a caste and religion-free India, should be aware that the CPM Chief Minister of Kerala, frightened after seeing the Holy Cross, has stalled illegal encroachment on public land in Idukki District. Karl Marx preached that the religion is opium to masses, so did EMS. But Karat who abstains from criticising religions, seems to have made some corrections in this fundamental ideological premise by appeasing the institutionalised religions for clinging to power in the state.
In EMS Smriti, Prakash Karat, on one hand, says Socialism can be implemented only after resolving the issues of caste and gender inequalities. On the other, Sitaram Yechury affirms that Socialism is possible only after a democratic revolution! It essentially suggests the confusion prevailing within the CPM as the party has completely failed to comprehend and evaluate the Indian conditions. Mixing up democracy, socialism, religion and caste altogether, CPM has turned out to be a ‘Confusion Party’. Yechury did not say anything explicitly as to how long the party cadres should wait for the arrival of the socialism as professed by Yechury and Karat duo. Yechury and Karat are trying to make the impossible possible like some dream mongers. It needs not to underline that the Communism is hardly present anywhere else in the political map of the country. It was in 1925 that both Communist party and RSS were established in Kanpur and Nagpur respectively. The Communist parties should take a survey of the present colossal difference between the organisations in terms of strength and acceptance. This year is very important as far as the history of the communist movement is concerned. This year marks the 100 years of October Revolution, the 150th anniversary of Das Kapital and 200th birth anniversary of Karl Marx. While the 150th birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda was widely celebrated all over India as well as in other 60 countries by all nationalist organisations, the Communist party should explain why it is hesitant to celebrate the aforementioned days even in Kerala. It is perhaps because of the conviction that they cannot present the ideology they represent before the public as successfully as they did in the past. If so, it should be perceived in a way that whatever Yechury said were mere flowery words said in vain.
When Yechury alleges that Narendra Modi has deceived the youth and farmers, the condition of farmers in West Bengal during the CPM rule is worth recalling. In order to start a production unit of one of the largest corporates in the country like Tata, CPM regime had unleashed oppressive measures and mercilessly massacred several innocent farmers in Singore and Nandigram that was not meant for bringing in the dictatorship of the proletariat in the state. It is worth recalling that, in development ranking, West Bengal ruled by the CPM for over 30 years had fallen down to the 22nd position, while the Modi ruled Gujarat rose to number one.
(The writer is National President, Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh)
