If there is one academic ideology and one political party which has been most inimical to India and Hindus, it has to be Marxism and the Communists respectively. Marx thought that Hinduism was the ideology of the oppressive and he shared the distaste of most Europeans for India and Hindu practices. He thought British colonial rule was correct for India as our primitive country was incapable of handling itself. Like the English, he believed that India was merely a stretch of land with a meek conglomerate of peoples passively waiting for the next conqueror. For him, the question was not whether it was right to colonize India, only whether British colonization was better than the Turks or the Russian Czar. Marx’s Indian followers across decades have not deterred from this view.
It has been a history of Marxists and the Communists in the political (receiving their orders from their Russian and Chinese masters) and academic arenas to be working constantly against the interests of the country and especially the Hindus. In 1942 Quit India movement, they betrayed the nationalists by acting as informers to the British agencies. During the second world war, this transition happened because Germany attacked Russia in 1941 and Britain was an ally of Russia. A friend of a friend became a friend despite the fact they were tyrannizing and ruling over us. Churchill is a war criminal, perhaps even more than Hitler, for being single-handedly responsible for the terrible Bengal famine of 1943. As Madhusree Mukerjee chillingly details in her book Churchill’s Secret War, for the Communists, ‘Churchill in opposition’ was completely different from ‘Churchill as a comrade in arms’ after Stalin and Churchill combined. The communists started actively supporting the authorities.
When Stalin joined Churchill, following their Russian masters, the Communists easily switched sides and declared that it was now fighting a people’s War against fascism. Though chronicling the famine in art and literature, the intellectual Communists blamed the speculators and the Japanese for the famine even as it was directly Churchill who was to blame. In severe famine conditions, when spontaneous protests rose, the Communists prevented food stocks from loot and suppressed protests physically. As a result of this, the Communists not only stayed out of jails but acquired political leverage in Bengal as Mukerjee explains in her disturbing but compelling book.
As Venkat Dhulipala explains in detail in his wonderful book (Creating a New Medina), the Communists were second only to the Muslim League in advocating and creating Pakistan. They supplied the intellectual arguments for a separate Pakistan. They sided with China during the 1961-62 war period acting against the interests in India. It is an amazing facet of their almost fanatical ideology that they had no problems in taking orders from foreign masters to take their stances related to Indian matters. It is equally amazing how they distort the narratives later on to present a different picture. It helps when academia is on your side.
They claim to have fought the Razakars and the Nizams but they were equally brutal in inflicting violence on the hapless people of Telangana and Andhra in areas like Warangal, Nalgonda, Vijayawada, East and West Godavari districts. Their joining the Congress and fighting the Nizams had a larger and complex dimension emanating from Russia to make Andhra-Nizam area into a separate Communist nation within India. This would be the first step in the dream of making India into a Communist nation. For a few years after the integration of Hyderabad, the Communists were still fighting the Indian state and it was only in 1951 (again from Russian orders) that they stopped. The final straw has to be the Ayodhya controversy where the Muslim party was almost convinced for a peaceful resolution when the Marxist intellectuals stepped in to supply a set of ill-formed and deficient arguments to prolong the issue for a great length of time.
At a political level, the damage which the Communists did to Bengal and Kerala is too massive to even imagine. It is not that the other political parties are paradigms of virtue but the Communists have been the nastiest in its attacks on India and the Hindus, perhaps equal, if not more than the Islamic and the European imperialists. Their academic hegemony for decades also ensured a free run of Marxist ideology in a whitewashing of uncomfortable history along with pushing the glories of Hindu history into the footnotes as if it never existed. The only paradigm for them to view Hinduism became an exploitative hierarchical society in their binaries of exploited and the exploiter. Two generations of Indians after independence grew up internalising this discourse and now most of us have only shame with regards to our country and the internal religious and social wounds have only festered deeper. In the garb of an anti-colonial critique, they have only perpetuated a colonial view of the country and have caused an immense intellectual and physical damage to our country.
Democracy may or may not be the best solution for the country; all political parties may belong to the devil, but the country can do very well without the Communists and their academic partners. Of course, in the declining political presence, our Universities are now indulging in Cultural Marxism which inexorably fragments society and culture. By employing various terms (which they are very good at), there is no end to the discovery of fresher victims and the endless atomization of victimhood in our country. Indian academia, craving for prestige by its association with the west, become the willing and conscious allies of the Western academia in its quest of disrupting the cultural coherence of the non-western societies. The Communist ideology, which fosters anti-national feelings and constantly undermines the country, need an outright rejection.
FOR FURTHER EXPLORATION
- The Only Fatherland by Arun Shourie (to understand their role in the pre-independence time)
- The Case for Rama by Meenakshi Jain (how they completely muddled the Ayodhya issue)
- Decolonizing the Hindu Mind by Koenraad Elst (a complete reference to their role in destabilizing the Hindus and India)
- Creating a New Medina by Venkat Dhulipala (to understand their important role in the creation of Pakistan)
- Churchill’s Secret War by Madhusree Mukerjee
- End of an Era by KM Munshi on the Communist complex politics of the Andhra-Nizam area
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1TSsytza-8 (A two part video series by Dr TH Chowdhary on the complex Hyderabad politics during and after independence)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARe5cH_wc5s
RANDOM MUSINGS 