Indian Marxists at a dead end

>> Amulya Gangulibdnews24.com
Published : 28 June 2014, 03:29 PM
Updated : 28 June 2014, 03:29 PM

Half a century after the formation of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), the curtains are descending on what the comrades once saw as the beginning of a Leftist transformation of India.

In the years soon after the 1964 split in the undivided Communist Party led to the CPI-M’s birth, a senior leader of the Marxists, M. Basavapunniah, noted the Congress’ decline – the latter has always been waxing and waning – and said: “We will not feel happy if this party goes down without the emergence of a viable democratic alternative.” (Read More)