[Reader-list] The Communist Conspiracy !

[Pawan Durani]

The below article has created more questions in my mind
Did the communists really spy for the British ?
Were the communists involved in making the blue print of Pakistan ?
Was the slogan of Pakistan a co-creation of Communists ?
Was Netaji really called as 'Japaneese Pig' ?
Was Netaji referred as a Nazi by Communists ?
Was a very derogatory word used by Rabindra nath Tagore by Communists ?
Did the Communists called Nehru & Patel as 'Fascists duo'?

Would someone well versed in History explain of what the reality is ? I am
ready to listen to any view.

http://www.geocities.com/saterrorwatch/communist_conspiracy.htm**
*The Communist Conspiracy*



(*This article was written in 1981. Now the Soviet Union has disappeared
from the scene and the Communist movement in India does not know whom to
serve. But its hostility towards Hindu society and culture remains
undiminished. It is quite on the cards that this mercenary outfit will be
bought over, in due course, by some other power or powers hostile to
positive Indian nationalism. A Communist cannot help being a traitor to his
country and his people.*)



We have so far discussed the role of the residues of foreign rule in India
vis-a-vis Hindu society. We have characterised Islamism as malevolent,
Christianism as mischievous, and Macaulayism as mild, though like a slow
poison. Now we shall take up Communism which, though not exactly a residue
of foreign rule, is yet a foreign imposition of the most malignant
character.



But before we proceed, we wish to make it clear that nothing in this article
should be construed as a hostile criticism of Indo-Soviet relations. Our
friendship with the Soviet Union has matured in the midst of a fast moving
world. We value that friendship, though we would like to emphasize that the
Soviet Union needs India’s friendship as much as India needs hers. We also
warn that neither the Soviet Union nor the Communist movement in our country
should be permitted to close our other options while we are faced and have
to deal with American interventionism.



Though Communism in India cannot be characterised as a residue of the
British rule, the British Government did make some substantial contributions
to its growth. In the ‘thirties, that Government encouraged non-Communist
revolutionaries in its jails to read Communist literature. This was done in
order to wean them away from “terrorism.” Many of them came out as convinced
Communists while still wearing the halo of national heroes. Again, during
the Second World War, that Government partronised, financed and fraternised
with the Communist Party of India and helped it attain the stature of an
independent political party.



Ideologically, Communism in India is, in several respects, a sort of
extension of Macaulayism, a residue of the British rule. That is why
Communism is strongest today in those areas where Macaulayism had earlier
spread its widest spell. That is why Macaulayism has always been on the
defensive and apologetic vis-a-vis Communism. Macaulayism has always tried
to understand and explain away the misdeeds of Communism in this country. It
has sadly deplored, if not condoned, as misguided idealism even the most
heinous crimes of the Communists. The long record of our parliamentary
debates is a witness of how, after the death of Sardar Patel, die treasury
benches have always evinced an awed deference towards utterly
unparliamentary and downright demagogic vituperations from Communist
members.



This ideological affinity between Communism and Macaulayism is ultimately
derived from a common source in the modern West-materialistic metaphysics,
evolutionistic sociology, utilitarian ethics, hedonistic psychology, etc. In
this world-view, man is essentially a *homo fabricus*, a tool-maker or
mechanic. A centralised economy and an urbanised society are a natural
follow-up of this world-view. In this larger ideological context, Marxism is
a logical culmination of Capitalism. Marx reserved his choicest praise for
Capitalism and his choicest abuse for what he denounced as Utopian
Socialism. The only crime of this other school of Socialism was that it
objected to the relentless drive of Capitalism towards total mechanisation,
industrialisation and centralisation, reducing the individual human being to
a helpless entity.



The difference between Capitalism in the West and Communism in the East of
Europe arose because Capitalist societies retained philosophical eclecticism
and political pluralism as expressed in parliamentary democracy, a free
press and free trade unions. Communist societies, on the other hand, froze
Marxist philosophy into a closed system of orthodoxy. This led to
heresy-hunting which in due course reduced Marxism to the status of a
Semitic creed like Christianity and Islam. Bertrand Russell was not far
wrong when he identified Communism as a Christian heresy. It has acquired
all the characteristic features of the Christian Church such as the
*only*Saviour,
the *only* Revelation, the *only* Pope, the *only* priesthood, the only
baptism, and the only sacraments.  Communist regimes could not help becoming
totalitarian enemies of human freedom.



Yet, and in spite of all ideological affinities, Communism is not a variety
of Macaulayism, though the former fattens on the latter. The inspiration of
Communism did not derive from the West. Its gospel as well guidance emanated
from an opposite direction, the Soviet Union, except for a brief period when
China also shared the honour of being a hallowed land.



This is not the occasion to dwell on the philosophy of Marxism or the
strategy and tactics of Leninism or Stalinism or Maoism.  Here we are
dealing with the problem which Communism poses before Hindu society and
culture. In any case, Communism in India, has never had much use for
Marxism, Leninism, Stalinism and Maoism except as an ideological
window-dressing to impress the intelligentsia at large and hoodwink the
party cadres whenever the Party line has to be shifted swiftly.

What, then, is Communism?



Scholars and historians of Communism far more competent than the present
writer have documented it beyond a shadow of doubt that Communism has been
an instrument of Soviet foreign policy in its drive towards world
domination, particularly since Stalin emerged as the undisputed leader of
the Soviet Union as well as the world Communist movement. The unmasking of
Stalin as a mass-murderer by Khruschev has blown up the myth of Soviet
Russia as a proletarian paradise. The split with China has splintered the
world Communist monolith. But, by and large, the movement has recovered from
these shocks, retained its self-righteousness and resumed its role in the
service of Soviet foreign policy.



It is, therefore, natural and inevitable that Communism should come into
conflict with *positive* nationalism in every country. India cannot be an
exception. By *positive*nationalism we mean a nationalism which draws its
inspiration from its own cultural heritage and socio-political traditions.
Such a nationalism has its own way of looking at world events and evaluating
the alignment of world forces. Such a nationalism is guided by its own past
experience in safeguarding its interests and pursuing its goals. These
interests and goals may coincide or agree with the interests and goals of
Soviet foreign policy at some particular stage of world politics. But it is
equally likely that they may not.



This basic dissonance between Communism and *positive* nationalism in India
was fully and finally dramatised during the Second World War. The Communist
Party of India had, since its inception, opposed British imperialism in
India and stood for its immediate and violent overthrow. The Party had also
opposed the Muslim League which it had characterised as a collaborationist
conspiracy of landed interests. In the eyes of Indian freedom fighters,
therefore, the Party represented a revolutionary fringe of the nationalist
movement. The Congress Socialist Party even allowed its platform to be used
by the Communist Party of India which was working under a British ban. But
the curtain was raised suddenly in 1941 when Hitler invaded the Soviet Union
and the real face of Communism was revealed for all who could see.



The Congress leadership had tried to negotiate a settlement with the British
for two long years. Finding the British attitude adamant, the Congress
decided in August 1942 to launch the Quit India Movement. The Communists in
the Congress opposed the Quit India resolution in the AICC Session at
Bombay. They propounded that the imperialist war had been transformed into a
people’s war simply because the Soviet Union had been invaded by an enemy of
Britain.



The freedom movement forged ahead under its own inspiration. But the
Communist Party of India moved full steam in the opposite direction. British
imperialism now became British bureaucracy for the Communists, the Muslim
League a spokesman of the Muslim mass upsurge, and the demand for Pakistan a
legitimate expression of Muslim nationalism which the Congress should
concede immediately. The rest of the story is well-known-the story of how
the freedom movement was branded as a movement for collaboration with
Fascism, how Subhash Chandra Bose was denounced as a Nazi dog and a Japanese
rat, how Communist cadres spied for the British secret police on Socialists
and Forward Blocists who had organised an underground movement, and how the
Communist intellectuals like Adhikari and Ashraf blueprinted the case for
Pakistan with facts, figures, academic arguments and sentimental slogans.



The Communist contribution towards the creation of Pakistan was next only to
that of the Muslim League. The Soviet Union was in search of a base from
which it could operate for capturing the rest of India after the departure
of the British. That plan did not succeed and Pakistan became a base for
American interventionism instead. Ever since, the Communists in India have
been blaming the Partition on those very forces of *positive* nationalism
which had fought the Muslim League tooth and nail. Communist slogans may
change but their hostility to positive nationalism is permanent.



The source of *positive* nationalism in India is *Sanãtana Dharma* and the
long saga of Hindu history. Hindu society provides the only base for *
positive* nationalism. The Muslim and the Christian communities can share
in *positive* nationalism only by revising the premises of their exclusive
creeds in favour of the universal principles laid down by *Sanãtana Dharma*.
Communism in India is bent upon destroying *Sanãtana Dharma* and Hindu
society. It is, therefore, in its interest to prevent the Muslims and the
Christians from moving towards the mainstream of *positive* nationalism.
This is a point with which we shall deal when we expose the united front
between various forces hostile to the Hindus. Here we shall simply specify
some prime targets of Communism in its battle against Hindu society and
culture. They are as follows:

1. The first and foremost target of Communism is *Sanãtana Dharma* enshrined
in Hindu literature and made living by a long line of saints, mystics and*
bhaktas*. Communism ridicules all this wealth of unrivalled spiritual
splendour as a conglomeration of sterile superstition, obnoxious
obscurantism and puerile priescraft;



2. Next, Communism makes an aggressive move towards Hindu
*Dharmashãstras* which
have their source in *Sanãtana Dharma* and which lay down the moral and
social principles by which a wholesome social and individual life is
sustained. Communism denounces these *Dharmashãstras* as respositories of
primitive prescriptions, Machiavellian morality, caste oppression,
untouchability, degradation of women, Brahmin domination, lack of social
responsibility, and what not;



3. Thirdly, Communism concentrates on Hindu philosophies which expound,
compare, contrast, fortify and defend the manifold metaphysical points of
view flowing into several streams from the self-same *Sanãtana Dharma*. It
condemns all these philosophies as Brahminical conspiracies to suppress the*
Lokãyata*, “the only scientific philosophy pulsating with a revolutionary
principle”. Rahul Sankrityayana was a great pedlar of this Communist lore
among the Hindi reading public. Some of his works have been translated into
other languages also. He was very enterprising indeed. He postulated that
the Buddha was preaching Marxism for all practical purposes except for his
unmindful lapse into the unproved doctrine of transmigration;



4. Fourthly-and here Communism has really invested some herculean
endeavours-it ransacks the annals of Hindu history and Hindu heroism. A
whole battalion of Communist historians have been busy for years battering
the walls of Hindu historiography “behind which Hindu communalism and
chauvinism is hiding its ugly face”. They have ridiculed every hero, every
period, every episode, and every precedent in which Hindus can take pride.
The Golden Age of the Imperial Guptas in which Hindu achievements attained
their acme in the fields of art, literature and science is dismissed as a
myth by D.N. Jha whose *Ancient India: An Introductory Outline* has just
been reprinted by the People’s Publishing House, New Delhi. Other Communist
historians have portrayed Maharana Pratap, Shivaji and Guru Govind Singh as
local rebels against *pax moslemanica* for petty personal ends. The same
historians whitewash bloodthirsty Islamic conquerors and despicable despots,
and condone their crimes either by balancing them with “great good deeds
which they did in some other direction” or by explaining them away as
conforming to the prevailing pattern of empire-building;



5. Lastly, the Communist anthropologists and sociologists dive deep into
Hindu social institutions, customs, mores and manners and come up with some
class interest hiding inside the core in each case. We are told that Hindu
society has always been an unhealthy society except perhaps during the Vedic
period when, according to Romila Thapar, our Aryan ancestors ate beef.
Beef-eating by the ancient Aryans has been such an obsession with Miss
Thapar that she returns to the theme again and again, even when discussing
the dancing girl found in the ruins of Mohenjo-daro.

How hostile Communism can be to everything Hindu is proved by an incident in
which S.A. Dange and his son-in-law, Deshpande, got involved a few years
ago. Deshpande wrote quite a scholarly book in which he propounded that
several important principles of modern mathematics and science (including
dialectical materialism which is the greatest principle of modern science
according to Communism) were first discovered by systems of Hindu
philosophy, notably *SãMkhya* and*Vedãnta*. Several other Communist savants
had earlier indulged in a similar exercise of casting ancient Hindu
philosophies into a materialist mould. The party had paraded them as expert
explorers and authentic interpreters of the revolutionary undercurrents in
India’s philosophical heritage. Where Deshpande went wrong was that he took
a genuine pride in the ancient Hindu past and expressed it in no mean
measure. Dange himself contributed a Preface to the book and presented it as
quite an academic achievement. Little did they know the consequences of what
they had done. The Party came down upon them like a ton of bricks. It called
a seminar, “Marxism on Vedanta”, in which Dange had to confess his errors
and cat crow.  Deshpande’s book published by a society in Bombay was
withdrawn from circulation.



The methods which Communism employs in India to denigrate and denounce the
votaries of positive nationalism are the standard Communist methods it uses
everywhere around the world. Here we shall concretise three of its chief
methods under Indian conditions:

1. Communism in India has developed a language which George Orwell has
described as *doublespeak*. In this language, the traitorous and
totalitarian forces represented by the Communist movement are presented as *
patriotic* and democratic forces, collaborators with Communism as
progressive people, Islamic imperialism as secularism, and positive
nationalism as Hindu communalism and chauvinism. Many people do not know how
to decipher this *doublespeak* and are, therefore, trapped by
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2. Communism in India constantly practises what Karl Popper so aptly
expounded “as the conspiracy theory of society”. It goes on digging up one
conspiracy after another against the working class, the peasantry, the
middle class, the toiling masses, Secularism, and so on. In this scheme, it
links up “Hindu communalism and chauvinism” with capitalism, landlordism,
forces of obscurantism, revivalism and reaction and, finally, all of them
with “American imperialism”. The forces of “democracy and progress” are then
called upon to rally round the Communist movement to defeat the “grand
conspiracy between American imperialism outside and reactionary Hindu
communalism within”. This helps the Communist cadres to acquire a rare depth
of perception without exercising their brains. The less they know and think,
the better they feel and function.  Recently, Communism has discovered a
conspiracy of “Hindu communalism” to kill Muslims and destroy Muslim
property whenever and wherever Muslims show some signs of prosperity;



3. Communism in India wields a strong-worded swearology which it hurls at
its adversaries. Some samples of this swearology will illumine the venom
which it can carry. During the Ranadive party-line in 1948-50, Mahatma
Gandhi was “unmasked” as the cleverest bourgeois scoundrel and Rabindranath
as *mãgeer dãlãl*, that is, a pimp. But the choicest reprimand was reserved
for Sardar Patel and Pandit Nehru “the fascist duo”.*Parichaya*, the
prestigious Bengali monthly, came out with a long poem on the two of them
“conspiring together in the service of American imperialism”. One of the
lines exposed them as *shyãlã shooarer bãcchã, birlã tatãr jãroja shontãna*,
that is, sons of swine and the bastard progeny of Birlas and Tatas. But,
then, you cannot pin the Communists to any of their past performances. They
always “admit their mistakes” publicly and do a bit of chest-beating
whenever they receive orders to change the Party line. At present, the bulk
of Communist swearology is being mobilised against the camp of positive
nationalism. People belonging to this camp are being daily denounced as
communalists, chauvinists, fascist murderers of minorities, perpetrators of
genocide, reactionaries and revivalists. The tone is still mild, keeping in
mind how mendacious it could easily become at a moment’s notice. But there
are intimations that it may resume its full powers of rhetoric as and when
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Hindu society is basically a sane society which can smile with tolerance at
every variety of venomous as well as tall talk. Hindus could have dismissed
the Communists as a band of lunatics and morons, had not Communism acquired
the power and prestige it enjoys in India today. Communism has, of course,
fattened itself on widespread Macaulayism and a *negative* nationalism
driven by nothing better than an anti-Western animus and inflated ideas
about India’s role in world affairs. But the main strength of Communism in
India springs from colossal Soviet finances which pour into its coffers
through many channels and in increasing amounts. This is not the place to
identify the channels through which the Soviet Union finances its
fifth-column in India. Here we are concerned with what the Communist
movement does with this money. The following deserve our particular
attention:

1. The Communist movement in India has built up the largest press in English
as well as Indian languages. It runs many dailies, weeklies, fortnightlies,
monthlies, quarterlies and irregular periodicals. Most of these papers and
journals do not care for commercial and other advertisements which are the
main source of income in normal press establishments. The losses that are
incurred by these party organs run into crores of rupees every year,



2. The movement controls the largest number of publishing houses. They
publish Communist literature in English as well as Indian languages. Most of
this literature is in the form of pamphlets, presenting the Party line on
all issues of importance, national and international. Recently, Communist
publishing houses have undertaken publication of heavier intellectual fare
as well, provided it carries a Communist slant or is authored by a Communist
or a fellow-traveller. A new line is publication of text-books, particularly
on Indian history. These are prescribed by Communist professors whenever and
wherever they control university departments, which is not unoften.
Departments of history in the Delhi and Jawaharlal Nehru universities, for
instance, have become pocket boroughs of Communism for all practical
purposes. All this literature, light as well as heavy, is sold at prices
which cannot meet even a fraction of the cost. The large discounts allowed
to retailers increase this disparity a good deal. The publishing houses
which are housed in spacious places, owned or rented by the movement,
maintain large salaried staff of all levels. The losses incurred in this
enterprise are also colossal;



3. The movement is a cadre-based movement. It has a farflung hierarchy of
leaders and workers. All of them are paid activists. Some of them are
whole-timers, others part-timers. The leaders are paid and maintained much
better than the workers. But salaries and allowances of workers are not
inadequate either, if we take into account the communes which the movement
maintains for its activists. These expenses on salaries, rents, food,
clothing, transport and sundries account for another colossal sum spent from
month to month and year after year;



4. The movement maintains and mans many front organisations among trade
unions, peasantry, students, youth, women, children, writers, artists, for
“peace”, for fighting “imperialism”, for opposing “communalism”. Most of
these front organisations have their own offices and their own staff. They
also publish their own pamphlets and periodicals. The costs involved on
maintaining and turning these transmission belts, as Lenin called them, are
considerable;



5. The Communist movement in India is well-known for the frequency of
conferences, congresses, mass meetings and demonstrations. A large number of
people, many times from long distances, are paid to travel to these
gatherings, pass the Party resolutions and shout the Party slogans. Many
participants in Communist demonstrations, particularly in big cities like
Calcutta, are hired on the basis of payment per head per day. The lodging,
board and transport costs for mobilising these crowds are paid by the
movement. Posters, placards and buntings abound on these occasions. Again,
the costs are colossal.

We are not counting the routine expenses which every political movement or
party has to incur in its normal functioning. The parties which do not
control a government know it very well how difficult it is to find finances
even for these normal expenses. The expenses incurred by the Communist
movement are abnormal when compared to its size and significance in India’s
body-politic. In comparison, the ruling Congress Party is a poor party. And
it has to find itself in an embarassing position when some of its methods
for collecting money are exposed.



The one thing which, next to slogans, never gets scarce in the Communist
movement is money. That is how it is always in a position to prove that it
is a movement of the poor, maintained by the poor, and for the benefit of
the poor. Shankar had once drawn a cartoon in which a well-dressed upper
class Communist worker was demanding a donation for peace from a naked and
blind beggar, and denouncing the latter as a warmongering agent of American
imperialism who would not part with his paisa.


*Footnotes:*
1<http://www.geocities.com/saterrorwatch/communist_conspiracy.htm?200917#1a>
See
Sita Ram Goel, *Perversion of India’s Political Parlance*, Voice of India,
New Delhi, 1984.

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The
Communists who control *The Times of India* at present have already come out
with this rhetoric.