With reference to the article, Lenin lives on in Kolkata by Jayanta Roy Chowdhury (THI 23rd April 2022), it is worthwhile to consider how Marxist-Communist ideology in our academia and politics has been most detrimental to the cause of India and Hindus since decades. Other political parties are not paragons of virtue but this specific one has been the most damaging. Marx thought that Hinduism was the ideology of the oppressive and he thought British colonial rule was correct for India as our primitive country was incapable of handling itself.
In the 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 and Britain was an ally of Russia. Later, the Communists were second only to the Muslim League in creating Pakistan by supplying many intellectual arguments for a separate country. They sided with China during the 1961-62 war period acting against the interests in India. It is amazing that they had no problems in taking orders from foreign masters (Russia, China) 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. 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. 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 it. 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. 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. The only paradigm for them to view Hinduism became an exploitative hierarchical society in their binaries of exploited and the exploiter. Their ideas have only perpetuated a colonial view, despite being a ‘critique’. Today, in the declining political presence, our Universities are indulging in Cultural Marxism which inexorably fragments society and culture. By employing various terms, there is no end to the discovery of fresher victims and an endless atomization of our country. They have caused an immense intellectual and physical damage to our traditions and heritage which stays at par with all the colonial invaders.
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