Economic & Political Situation :
India becomes a Fertile Ground for All Exploiters
India is also facing all the problems present in the international arena . Rather it is sharper since by the pursuance of globalisation policy the imperialists have continuously shifting as much burden as they can on the shoulders of countries like India .
Looking back the history lane it becomes clear that this part of British India after partition known as India could not really come out of the clutches of imperialism by the transfer of power by British imperialism . Rather it turned in to a semi colony from a colony , where several imperialist powers were vying with one another for total hegemony . The native ruling classes were dependent for their existence upon the imperialist finance capital or were being under the process of “ erosion and retention ” by the imperialist masters , so both were at the service of imperialism . The former represented the comprador and bureaucratic capital and the latter represented feudalism . One thing was clear that the Indian big bourgeoisie though comprador by nature were , and still are , sophisticated enough to utilise the contention between the imperialist forces over India to gain enough space for themselves to thrive as well as turning into expansionists under one or other imperialist power . On the other hand since the feudal structure was shaped by the British rulers at their interest imperialists always attempted to reshape or erode according to its necessity and agricultural production processes are being changed accordingly . But were suppliers of cheap labour , cheap raw materials and cheap food items . It was rather the main instrument for creating popular opinion for the imperialist rulers and also suppliers of mercenary forces . Moreover the social divisions based on caste and religion created a basis to continue , what Marx called , exploitation
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Revolutionary Forces getting Organisationally Strong
Dhruva through extra economic coercion , a pre-capitalist mode of exploitation .
The above created an alliance of imperialism , comprador bureaucratic capital and feudalism not only to exploit but also to oppress the people and suppress any other dissention . Thus making the contradiction between the alliance of imperialism , comprador bureaucratic capital and feudalism versus the people of the country as principal contradiction .
Though without formulating in this manner the communists in India developed struggles which proved Marx ’ s words ‘ a genuine step forward a revolutionary movement is worth more than a dozen of programmes ’. So we found the Tebhaga movement , the struggle of Punnapra Vayalar , the peasant movement of Kayyur , all heroic struggles against not only the feudal lords but also the state representing the alliance . But the greatest was the movement in Telangana , which started against the exploitative Nizam regime and its Rajakar forces turned into a fight against the Indian Army . It liberated hundreds and hundreds of villages , seized thousands and thousands of acres of land , developed an army of the people . But was betrayed by the highest leadership in the name of advice from international leadership . The comrades faced all odds but true to be the disciplined soldiers of the party obeyed the decision of the party .
There were changes in the ruling forces in India . After the Suez Crisis the British lost its capacity for military adventure East of Suez . The US imperialism became the most influential external force . India became more dependent on the US capital . But that was a period when Soviet Union and China with their planned socialist development were attracting the world . As a newly independent country India wanted to play a global role by building a nonaligned movement along with China , Yugoslavia , Egypt and Indonesia based on Five Principles of Peace and Noninterference . The US imperialists were opposed to it , even the CIA plotted a sabotage by engineering a crash in the high seas of the KASHMIR PRINCESS an Indian aircraft of Lockheed make by which Chinese Premier Chou Enlai was to fly for Bandung Conference . Then there were conspiracies abundant to plot coups and crisis in the leading countries of the movement . As a result India was forced to be part of the US plan for containment of China , which led to the 1962 Sino-Indian War . Within three years another War against Pakistan made Indian economy bankrupt . India had to devalue currency and that was the time Indian Planning Minister genuflected before the US imperialists and said “ The womb of Indian economy is open for American capital ”. But that was a period of a global economic crisis . Moreover Indian Agriculture faced continuous two years of drought creating a food crisis . There were dissentments all over the country , and riding on it the opposition forces dislodged the Congress from the seats of power in almost all the states of Northern and Eastern India . By then Soviet Union did not only change its colour but became a socialimperialist power daring the US . The Soviet Union entered into the polity , ( it was present in many economic enterprises run by the state ), after brokering peace with Pakistan in Tashkent . Indira Gandhi government in the centre started leaning more and more towards it .
That was the time the Salvo of peasant struggle at one corner of the
Class Struggle