CPM may go for new model
The CPI(M) seems to be in a dilemma over the contour line of its ideological resolution. The question to follow the China or the Cuba (Latin American socialism) line is pressing the party satraps to go for a new model of its own in sync with the changing times.
The debate has become more intense after a note (the party, however, termed it as a note of dissent) placed by party politburo member and state secretary of Andhra Pradesh B.V. Raghuvulu which prescribes that “the party should not imitate either China or Cuba, rather the party should chart out its own path given the changing political situation in the country.”
This apart, another debate has cropped up whether the draft should be kept within the party circle or should be presented to the non-party members/Marxist ideologues for the first time to have their “liberal views.” Significantly, a fresh political-ideological document would be finalised in the ensuing three-day politburo and central committee meeting slated to be held from January 17 to 19 in Kolkata for adoption at the 20th Party Congress. This would be a repeat of the exercise which it undertook in 1983 at the 14th Congress after the collapse of USSR.
Earlier, the choice before the Indian Communists was to either emulate the erstwhile Soviet Union or China. Since then, although the CPI(M) claimed to have aligned with neither model completely and instead seeking to evolve an Indian view mingled with realities of caste and religion, the party’s stagnation in Bengal seemed to have busted the long-held myth. Moreover, the recent note of Mr Raghuvulu which suggested that the party should chart out a new path of its own in sync with the Indian perspective, albeit taking the positive sides of neo-socialism of the Latin American countries and China too.
That the Marxist would opt for a new path was evident when politburo member Sitaram Yechury said, “In the past 20 years, the world has changed a lot. The party has to contemporise its ideological approach in changed times as we are going through globalisation and liberalisation.”
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