Communism in India : events processes and ideologies
"Chakrabarty,Bidyut"
Communism in India : events processes and ideologies - New Delhi Oxford 2014 - 314
The history and development of India's left movements are unique in that the country is home to two coexisting strands of modern communism. The first of these is the parliamentary Communist Party of India, which constituted the first democratically elected
Marxist government in the country. The parliamentary left subscribes to a social-democratic philosophy, turning to the traditional democratic institutions of governance in their quest to fulfill the Marxist-Leninist goal of establishing a classless society. The second, oppositional, strand is the revolutionary Maoist movement. This branch rejects parliamentary democracy as a means to altering class relations, as they see the government as an elite organization dedicated to the status quo and an age-old system of class exploitation.
Drawing on ethnographic field work conducted in Orissa, Chhattisgarh, and West Bengal, Chakrabarty provides a contextual account of the rise, consolidation, and decline of these two types of left radicalism. He looks at how it is that left ideology has coexisted with free-market-oriented economic policies, as well as the contexts in which more militant strands have taken root, particularly among the young in poorer districts.
9780199458318
India
320.5320954 CHA
Communism in India : events processes and ideologies - New Delhi Oxford 2014 - 314
The history and development of India's left movements are unique in that the country is home to two coexisting strands of modern communism. The first of these is the parliamentary Communist Party of India, which constituted the first democratically elected
Marxist government in the country. The parliamentary left subscribes to a social-democratic philosophy, turning to the traditional democratic institutions of governance in their quest to fulfill the Marxist-Leninist goal of establishing a classless society. The second, oppositional, strand is the revolutionary Maoist movement. This branch rejects parliamentary democracy as a means to altering class relations, as they see the government as an elite organization dedicated to the status quo and an age-old system of class exploitation.
Drawing on ethnographic field work conducted in Orissa, Chhattisgarh, and West Bengal, Chakrabarty provides a contextual account of the rise, consolidation, and decline of these two types of left radicalism. He looks at how it is that left ideology has coexisted with free-market-oriented economic policies, as well as the contexts in which more militant strands have taken root, particularly among the young in poorer districts.
9780199458318
India
320.5320954 CHA