The Indian Left is directionless

“The first person was shot dead. The second was stabbed to death. And the third was beaten to death.” That was the statement made by CPI(Marxist) district secretary in Idukki in Kerala, MM Mani, about his party murdering political opponents in cold blood in the past. Juxtapose this verbal vitriol with an ideological document that was released by the CPI(M) in its 20th National Congress in Kozhikode titled ‘Draft Resolution on Some Ideological Issues’, and you know how far the party in India has moved away from the fundamental self-sacrificing value system on which Marxist ideology was based.

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