[Reader-list] THE RED BLUNDERS

[Pawan Durani]

1942 : Opposed Quit India Movement
1948 : Yeh Azadi Jhooti Hai
1962 : Supported China
2007 : About To Topple Govt

- The communists have consistently betrayed national interests

If nationalism, as the historian Jack Gallagher was fond of quipping,
devours its parents, communism consumes its own ideology. Communism was born
under the sign of internationalism. The project of world revolution did not
recognize national boundaries. Thus, it is funny to see Indian communists
today positioning themselves as great protectors of national sovereignty.

Indian communists have always had a very uncomfortable relationship with
nationalism. Some of the major debates and divisions within the Communist
Party of India have revolved around the question of nationalism and the
national movement. And, if the truth be told, these debates do not exactly
hold up the comrades in an edifying light. On the scorecard of nationalism,
the performance of Indian communists is poor to say the least. (On
internationalism, their score is irrelevant, since a world communist
revolution is not even a pipe dream after the collapse of socialism and the
exposure of the many crimes of the socialist regimes in Soviet Russia, in
Eastern Europe, in China, in Albania, under Pol Pot in Cambodia and so on.)

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