WHERE DO INDIAN COMMUNISTS STAND ON THE CURRENT SINO-INDIAN CRISIS ?

WHERE DO INDIAN COMMUNISTS STAND ON THE CURRENT SINO-INDIAN CRISIS ?

What is the Indian communist's view on China's annual incremental land-grabbing enterprise in so far as its border disputes with India are concerned, the latest instance of which led to the showdown in the Galwan Valley in Ladhak?

Is China, according to them, 'a socialist country with Chinese characteristics', whatever that may mean, or is it a totalitarian capitalist country with neo-imperialism its undisguised agenda so very opposed to classical communist ideology?

Are Indian communists atoning for their past sins in unpatriotic stance adopted during critical national situations when their allegiance has invariably been to the erstwhile Soviet Union and to China in their professed communist allegiance and international proletariat interests thereof overriding national interest or are they still persisting in their past perfidies and doing propaganda against national interest?

It is no more intellectually fashionable to promote internationalism of the communist kind at the cost of national interest and the Indian communists know it only too well that their mentors in Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Castro and Ho Chi Minh never did so or mischievously endorsed it so as to undermine their respective country's interest?

A reiteration of the primal question by way of final query now -- 'So, where do our Indian communists stand truly today -- with motherland India or with communist-capitalist-imperialist contradiction in terms, China?' Not only the nation waits to hear but Xi Jinping, too, unless secret emissaries have briefed him already about the continuing commitment or otherwise of communists from this continent of contrasting ideology?

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Sugata Bose

17Nilanjana Chakraborty, Sharmistha Chatterjee and 15 others

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