Seminar:
Let Us Come Together and Fight against Comprador
Bourgeois and Landlord Rule and Imperialist Domination
Com. Arvind Sinha
This is the concluding speech made by com Arvind Sinha in the National seminor
conducted by the Central Committee of CPI(ML) on September 9 and 10, 2018 at Hyderabad.
The key Note by the CPI(ML) and Papers presented by various participating organizations
were published in September issue of Class Struggle.
- Editor
Comrades in the presidium, representatives of
different parties and delegate comrades of different
states of our country!
Now, we have deliberated for one and half days
on this issue as our CC saw and decided to hold this
seminar for the first time the challenges posed as
Com. Aasim Roy said fascist danger, many other
comrades also spoke about fascist danger looming
in the country. We felt that taken together different
communist parties, their member, their mass
organisations, sympathisers, the quality of their cadre
is a potent force in this country. If they come together
they can really change the term of history. Rightist,
communal, fascist trends that are taking place by the
section of ruling class party represented by RSS, BJP.
The kinds of tensions and contradictions creating in
the society, the kind of economic hardships having
posed upon the people of our country especially the
working people, students, youth, women, Tribals,
Dalits and the middle classes is very dangerous. The
real vanguard against these atrocities in this situation
is communist forces only. Many parties are opposing
this. Congress party is opposing, regional parties TDP
in AP, RJD in Bihar, Samajvadi Party, Bahujan party
and many other parties. But they all represent the
sections of the ruling classes. They don’t have any
fundamental outlook different from that of BJP so far
the class basis is concerned. They do not have much
to say. They can only say petrol prices are high,
crossed Rs80/-. But they don’t cut much ice, they have
some impact, some influence if they oppose Modi and
the policies of NDA government. But it does not cut
much ice. When the BJP says one or two days back
on TV one of the BJP spokes persons saying they
are going to fight this election, 46 years of continuous
Congress rule, Congress misruled. The track record
of Congress rule was not bright. They cannot
convince people much more. Yes, if they stand in
opposition people will go with them if they do not find
any other force there.
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But the communists who have been fighting
against capitalist exploitation, against imperialist
exploitation and against feudal oppression, against
state oppression since the very beginning. If they
come together, and if their cadre come together with
the resolve that we have been uniting and coming
together not to fight the fascist danger only but to
change the present system.. We don’t have to unite
and come together only to defeat some other ruling
class party, rather we have come together to usher in
a new era, a new dawn of new society. Based upon
freedom from exploitation as Marx said; the whole
social philosophy of Marx if you analyse, you find it is
freedom of labour, association of free labour. He could
show the whole history how the labour was bonded
from slave system to feudal system and to capitalist
system. People talk of democracy and freedom. Some
comrades, some representatives of the parties there
is at debate complain that communists are not
democratic. They do not take democracy seriously.
But communists take democracy in its real
seriousness, in its real essence. The essence is free
labour. Unless you free the labour in a capitalist
society, in a semi-feudal society holding elections in
every five years is not real democracy. But yes, it is a
partial democracy, better than kingdoms, better than
military dictator ship. From that people have some
freedom. But still labour is not free. After the elections
people have to be enslaved by the capitalists, by the
landlords, by the other forces. So, unless freedom is
provided in the socio economic field to the labour,
and then also election of representatives - in Lenin
and Marx- very clear, very categorical of very free
elective representative in the Soviets, in the
communes. All the working people used to elect the
representatives. But that was the position of free
labour in the communes and there was a freedom.
So with that kind of society having vision, comrades
have been working through decades, our comrade
from CPI sitting since two days, said that I find it very
good, that the comrades here sitting in a very serious
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