and those who negated and denigrated or minimized the achievements of the struggle . “ There are certain great things . We can retell them as heroic stories . But now withdraw the struggle . It could not withstand . Everything is over . Let us go back to homes ” -this trend had come out . Those who argued after the police action for the withdrawal of struggle had minimized the achievements of struggle to support their argument . It happened 35 years back .
The same leaders who argued for withdrawal are now praising the achievements as great and not mentioning the weaknesses . They are utilising the movement to validate their reformist , anti-struggle and antirevolution opinions . It is easy to propagate anti-revolutionary ideas disguising them with praises of revolutionary movement . Anti-Marxist ideas can be propagated in the name of Marxism in these days . It is difficult to propagate them while opposing Marxism because there is a positive attitude among the people and intellectuals on Marxism , revolution and revolutionary movement . They will be condemned as anti-Marxists and anti-revolution . Once the difference between anti-revolutionary ideas of then and now is recognized it is easy to understand how they are opposed to Marxism-Leninism .
Praising the achievements uncritically and ignoring the weaknesses became a usual affair now a days which is in no way useful to the movement . One can avoid committing the same mistake only when the mistakes are understood properly . So it is necessary to examine the mistakes , deeply understand them and draw lessons from them . All steps have to be taken to avoid recurrence of these mistakes . Then only the revolutionary movement could progress in a proper manner .
From this angle , the mistakes committed during this period were not less in quality and quantity . We have to examine them carefully . Some of them are being mentioned here .
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The main weaknesses are there in political as well as military policies . These can be seen in the implementation of these policies . The most important weakness was the lack of clarity on policy . At that time , Joshi ’ s line was replaced by Ranadive ’ s line . But there was no clear understanding on the Telangana struggle .”
Comrade D . V . Rao also wrote about the Party organization and consciousness as follows :
“ Equating general anti-Nizam spirit with the party consciousness , and lack of policy on political education were some of the important shortcomings in the party organization . Political education was woefully short . The anti-Nizam spirit and party consciousness were equated but not differentiated . Without politics many educated people may remain as left nationalists , anti-Muslim and anti- Nizam rule . They may fight militantly and they no doubt fought militantly . The party members should understand the programme of the party and inculcate party consciousness . They should clearly understand that the struggle was not only against Nizam , but also continue after the downfall of Nizam to establish a new socialist society . This should be the basis for their consciousness . There was almost no effort to inculcate such a consciousness . Senior leaders had such understanding due to political education they received earlier . But the youth that came into the party during the struggle had no such understanding . Lack of political education haunted the movement from the beginning . There was scope for left nationalists , revolutionary nationalists and other forces to exist in the unity against Nizam . Along with them there were leading comrades and cadres who were politically conscious . There was no effort from the side of the party to explain and convince the nationalist revolutionaries about the party programme that anti- Nizam struggle was an agrarian revolutionary programme and it had to be waged through armed struggle and it had to be continued against the Nehru ’ s government . This left the scope for the understanding - though not in a categorical manner - that armed struggle ends with the fall of Nizam . So the lack of political education policy led to such development . This caused harm at a later time ” ( Telangana Peasant Armed Struggle- D . V . Rao - 1983-85 ).
Telangana peasant armed struggle took place in the context of the socialist construction in Soviet Union , defeat of fascism in the World War II , formation of people ’ s democracies in Eastern Europe and victory of new democratic revolution in China and it provided valuable lessons to the present day revolutionary movement .
The communist party metamorphosed from reformism to revisionism and practiced it . Though the struggle against revisionism began in1955 , the differences got expressed within the framework of reformism . That was why struggle started on ideological positions of CPI ( M ) in 1967 . As the CPI ( M ) was moving away from the agrarian revolution , people ’ s democracy and dictatorship of Proletariat , struggle was waged on both the ideological and practical fronts .
The movement of workers , adivasis and peasants in Darjeeling district of West Bengal , the movement of adivasis in Srikakulam district of AP and the peoples resistance to attacks by the landlords in Khammam and Warangal districts of AP were going on by the time of 1957 . These struggles made it clear that the fight against reformism and revisionism in Indian Communist movement was not completed .
Elections became the main form of struggle instead of it being one of many forms of struggle , the ill effects of which harmed the communist party . It restricted its activities to propaganda and agitations on partial issues and spontaneous struggles the Party organization weakened . When asked by the press reporters Com . TN said :
“ The difficulties are of course our own mistakes during the last 16
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