COMMUNIST CONTRADICTIONS, NAY, HYPOCRISIES, HERESIES TO SERVE IDEOLOGICAL ENDS

COMMUNIST CONTRADICTIONS, NAY, HYPOCRISIES, HERESIES TO SERVE IDEOLOGICAL ENDS

1. Communists damn the fascists for their brutality but absolve themselves entirely of it. After all it is a socialist revolutionary imperative to ward off counter-revolution.

2. Communists call the BJP a polarising political party but absolve themselves of it on the thesis that class stratification is a reality after all and class struggle an imperative to bring about an equitable socialist order.

3. Communists believe in the dictatorship of the proletariat, a one-party autocratic system, violent revolutionary methods to seize power, have no faith in multi-party democracy, and yet they hypocritically give up revolutionary methods to fit into the very democratic set-up they aim to destroy. E.M.S. Nambooripad had famously said that his party's purpose in capturing power at the state level was to use the administrative machinery so that they could break the Constitution from within. And yet the communists keep on talking about upholding the Constitution of India, a laudable objective doubtlessly but coming from a communist, entirely hypocritical.

4. Communists disbelieve in God, spirit, soul, afterlife, religion itself as such. They are rank materialists. Yet, they line up with the adherents of the minority religions in a country to try and subvert the non-communist political system there. And where they are in power, communists ban religion altogether!

Written by Sugata Bose