2 . If the forces that fought against left opportunist leadership of CPI ( ML ) both inside and outside of it had discussed and acted with unified understanding in their struggle , it could have strengthened the forces of revolutionary mass line . It could have greatly influenced the revolutionary camp . But the distance between Andhra revolutionaries and those within CPI ( ML ) is still continuing . Along with this and other factors like lack of physical relations and wrong notions spread against communist revolutionaries played their negative role .
3 . The criticism and advice of leadership of CPC was a help to the Indian CRs . But the painful fact is that the leadership of CPI ( ML ) - which claims utmost respect towards CPC - kept these advices under wraps without any reason and continued in its own path . These criticisms and advices of CPC came to light very lately and as bits of information . Suppression of these facts caused enormous harm to the Indian revolution . If CPC ’ s criticisms and advices were opened for discussion in a proper manner , it could have strengthened the process of unifying all CRs on the basis of correct path . We had lost this opportunity . More hurdles were created for the unity of CRs and revolutionary movements .
“ More on Naxalbari ” said : There were “ internal contradictions and splits among the ruling classes , countrywide mass discontent against the government and a strong mass base in Naxalbari . But apart from these , all other conditions necessary for the existence of red area were absent . Moreover , there were illusions on the newly formed united front government . Though communist cadres in Darjeeling , Kolkata and other areas revolted against CPI ( M ) leadership , the rank-and-file members of CPI ( M ) are in confusion and are not ready for revolt . It was possible to preserve Naxalbari peasant uprising without incurring heavy losses , if we avoided subjective tactical mistakes ,
May - 2022 absence of subjective preparations and absence of flexibility in policy by keeping firm on principle ”. ( from “ More on Naxalbari ” written in 1973-74 )
The communist parties of Russia and China followed the method of internal discussions to solve political , organisational and movement problems . They organised struggle against wrong trends that harm the movement .
Serious differences and opinions emerged on ideological , political , organisational and practical problems in the Indian communist movement also . They also arose during the Telangana , Naxalbari , Srikakulam , Khammam , Warangal and Godavari movements . These differences got expressed between reformism and revolution and between revolution and left sectarianism during Telangana peasant struggle in 1946-50 . The reformism later developed into revisionism and left sectarianism into left adventurism . In the final analysis , the result of both the trends is the same . To fight against these trends , internal struggle within the party , with longterm and overall interests of revolution , comradely spirit , flexibility with firmness on principle are needed . As it did not happen , a large physical and mental gap was formed among the active cadres and forces aspiring for revolution . By reviewing our organisations and movements in a factual manner , this gap could be bridged .
Indian communist movement can surmount the obstacles faced by it only by discarding subjective trends in the method of criticism , review and analysis .
How to Take Lessons
At the end of the chapter on “ Revolt in Srikakulam ” in Comrade Nagi Reddy ’ s court statement “ India Mortgaged ”, he said that those with different opinions and views due to our wounded people ’ s struggles , make their , comments , criticisms and lessons according to their opinions and views . He quoted Marx and Engels ’ s “ German Revolution and Counter-Revolution ” on taking lessons . He quoted Lenin ’ s lessons from “ Agrarian Programme of Social Democracy ”. We elaborately quote from the pages of ‘ India Mortgaged ’ by Tarimela Nagi Reddy .
“ I have had to re-trace this recent history to show how it was the government , and thspired against the people to suppress their organised fight for their legitimate demands . It was the government and the landlords who used all the illegal methods against the people . It was the landlords and their gangsters that created terror in the villages . It was the landlords that used lethal weapons including guns for the first time against the people . It was the police who opened fire on the girijans . It was the landlords and the government that openly declared war on the peasants .”
It was only when the peasants found that every legal agitation only brought forth illegal brutal means of repression on their heads that they woke up to the realisation that the landlords ’ government had no legal bounds in putting down the downtrodden , however legal their demands be . They saw that all their representations to the government in the illegal means of extraction of free labour and mamools to the landlords and the government officials went unheeded . Their representations about abnormally low wages were not even enquired into . Their petitions and agitation against illegal confiscation of land by the landlords did not move the ‘ constitution-bound ’ rulers . On the other hand , illegal arrests , tortures and shootings against the people became the order of the day .
I would like to ask who were the conspirators ? Was it the people who fought bravely against illegal , immoral desperados of the despicable landlords and their servile government ? Or was it the government and the landlords who for the past so many years acted against all the so called canons of the Constitution , not only robbed them of their land and labour but visited them like the plague with all the Nazi brutality with illegal arrests , tortures and finally started the shooting game to destroy their will to fight ?
For the present , there is jubilation heard from all the bourgeois parties
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