Major Communist Varieties of India and the Indian Government

Major Communist Varieties of India and the Indian Government

brotee mukhopadhyay

I like to write a few lines on two major communist forces of the modern India and I shall write in the concluding lines why I have selected them as content of my writing. The two forces are known as Communist Party of India (Marxist) or Marxist and Communist Party of India (Maoist) or Maoist.

Communists all over the world have always welcome cell-divisions for their growth. India is no exception to such practice of ‘divide and multiply’. The prime communist party in India has experienced first major division in 1964 following the theoretical (?) feud between the communists of the then Soviet Russia and those of China. Communists of the Chinese brand have successfully posed as more revolutionary than their Russian counterparts. By this time China has completed it first war with India as India had no war-time preparation till then. China has captured large part of the Indian territory and stopped leaving a standing claim over more of the Indian soil. CPIM has since then maintained the view that India under the pressure of the imperialist America is responsible for the Indo-China War. Since then CPIM’s stand towards China is mostly soft.

And just within five years after its birth radical members from this Marxist party dissociate themselves and decide to start armed revolution against the state of India. The new communist outfit takes the name of Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist). Indian people have witnessed bloody feuds between these two forces when the original mother party, that is, ‘Communist Party of India’ selects the nationalist bourgeois party of India, that is, Indian National Congress as its best friend probably under the instructions of the Russian communist party.

Any way, I do not like to write the history of the India communists for my friends and readers now. I must stop just after telling that the radical communists of India too have divided and multiplied and finally their main force has been consolidated by the name of the aforesaid Maoists.

Now these Marxists and Maoists have misled the Indian people by their jargons and activities. On the surface it appears that the they are sworn enemy of one another. Questions arise when the Maoists help the Marxists with men and arms at Keshpur in the district of West Medinipur of West Bengal. Thus with the active help of the Maoists the Marxists drove away followers of a non-communist political party named ‘Trinomul Congress’. Maoists are also marked to assassinate persons of different cross-sections which include men in the security forces, activists of any other rival political party and also some of the lower-ranking cadres or leaders of the Marxists.

Marxists are also all for violence. In three of the Indian states, namely, West Bengal and Kerala and Tripura, the CPIM-led left fronts are at the head of the state. In a sense the CPIM has been acting as a terrorist outfit from the start. On their way to secure power in the states and on their way to retain this power the Marxists have left such marks that they may be called murderers and destroyers of people’s property. They have been credited with a few massacres and genocides. Genocides after genocides, from Snaibari to Marichjhapi, from Chhoto Angaria to Snuchpur and Nandigram certify that a political party registered legally in India can possess highly condemnable crime-records. Like any other communist variety of the world Indian communists too love to keep the people dependent on them and to disapprove any kind of free thinking. The CPIM reminds us ‘Animal Farm’ of Paul Orwel. Presently the rank and file of this political party have become mostly corrupt and money-mongers. Industrialists of India and abroad have learned that these elements have already changed their target and that they will work against any revolutionary ideas or activities.

The Maoists are no different. Blood-letting is their favorite game. They have been killing at least one man one day in an average. They have been waging war against the Indian state and they take decisions in their kangaroo-court and go on killing anyone whom they count as enemy or class-enemy.

The Marxists and the Maoists have other common features. None of them have any regard for democracy. The Marxists know that there is democracy in India in a wide extent. They just want to take advantage of the existing democratic practices with a view to capturing the state power. They actually deceive the people when they swear in the name of democracy. They are fully conscious of the fact that how far false it is. They consider that they know everything and that they can do everything better than any other political forces. If they gain the desired political power they will immediately shred the garb of democracy and become a ruthless and brute dictator. The Maoists, on the other hand, do not consider that there is little bit of democracy in India. They campaign for ‘New Democracy’ although they  are miles away from the spirit of democracy. Like the CPIM elements they too favor dictatorship on behalf of the people. Difference is simple. The Maoists do not need a veil.

Other communist outfits of India are very weak, and therefore, they have been parasites of the CPIM and also have been maintaining clandestine relations with other open or secret communist forces.

The Maoists are one underground political force and have been spreading their influence years after years. The CPIM is a political party registered under the laws of India. Still the two have surprising unity in modus operandi. These two political forces, one constitutional and another extra-constitutional, maintain militia. Yes, they maintain private army which is equipped with local arms and also sophisticated fire arms. Cadres of the two varieties of these communists carry guns and in some electronic media footage of such horrible spectacles has been displayed. Indian government is aware of the gravity of such a situation and takes steps to check the growth of the Maoist militia time to time. And it is a great surprise that Home Department of New Delhi is silent regarding the similar kinds of activities of the CPIM.

Indian Prime Minister is hell-bound for building up Special Economic Zones (SEZ) in different parts of India and the Marxists are his comrades-in-arms in these noble targets whereas the Maoists have been opposing the concept of the SEZ.

[Indian communists, like any of their international comrades, favor violence. Unfortunately other political forces in India are also worshippers of violence in one form or other. Yes, in the soil of nonviolence this is the undesirable reality in our days.]