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This open letter of Comrade Arup Baisya is about the need for the unity of Communist revolutionaries . In this letter he expressed his views , and approach about unity . We have no agreement with his views , approach and concept . Any how we decided to present Comrade Arup Baisya ’ s viewpoint about unity of communist revolutionaries for discussion . - Editor

The fundamental premise for unity of communist revolutionaries is definitely Marxism . Marxism is a guide to action . So it is the action that guides the path to unity of communist revolutionaries . The communists are not the historians who strive to know what and how such and such things appeared in the past , but discover the past in its present to formulate an action for the future . Communists dwell on the present to know and influence the future trajectory of society through their action . So it is the action that guides the future . The question of unity is such an action that gives rise to a guide for new action . Why unity is to be achieved is more important than how it should be achieved . Communists are not moral footsoldiers ; they are the actors , the role of which is determined by the social conflict . They have a vision for the future and a mental theory to act radically . This determined action is dialectically intertwined with multifaceted indeterminations . Can the social conflict within a social relation of production be fully determined ? If it is not , does it mean that communist revolutionaries should wait for their programme to be experimentally proven and vindicated by the society

August - 2022 in their actions ? The maximalist stand of doing nothing and waiting for the opportune moment for vindication of programmatic line , and minimalist approach of emphasizing on only doing something are both counterproductive and end in status-quo its quagmire .

Gramsci raised the “ Southern Question ” in Italy and his proposition was that Italian programme for radical change , and united front and communist unity against fascism cannot be resolved without addressing the “ Southern Question ”. He was right in its essence , but he visualized it within the framework of centreperiphery relation , the relation between developed capitalist region and backward feudal region . Communist revolutionaries in India conceptualized the idea of revolution mostly from Chinese experience of backward feudal region and this legacy is still continuing . In Indian context , we cannot delineate the issue as western or northern question . The Russian experience had not helped us much in understanding the Indian social contour in the backdrop of a global capitalism as a system . The Russian revolution took place in a different global context and internal

To attain this goal CPI ( M ) avoided to defend the constitution , constitutional institutions , secularism and federalism etc , making its holy task .

There is no Marxism-Leninism , communism , socialism not even people ’ s democratic revolution in this ritual exercise of 23 ^rd Congress of CPI ( M ) and one need not have any illusions about the communist or revolutionary character of CPI ( M )!

- By Kannan social dynamics of developed capitalist region with proletarian presence and region of peasant commune with Russian specificities and largely undisturbed by capital penetration . It is true that the legacy emanated from Naxalbari peasant uprising and carried forward by the communist revolutionaries in India could not settle the question of later development of intermingling and overlapping social territorial spaces in its entirety within a global capitalist system . The great Indian mode of production debate in the 1970s could not also settle the question in either side of the two camps . The mode of production debate is never-ending and it cannot be settled through experiences and studies because experiences are varied and studies are always incomplete . But all practicsing Marxists can realize from their practice that there are certain changes in social relations of production . In addition to the land reform in ownership pattern , the cooperation of peasantry in production and struggle against corporate domination has been emerging as important agenda as big land-holding class is numerically not significant in proportion to small peasant

32-13-26 / 1 , M . R . Puram , Vijayawada , pin-520 010 .

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