CPM and Manmohan

So our champagne socialists of the CPM are busy crying hoarse over Manmohan Singh's compromise with "imperialism"and some in the English media, even while being in favour of the deal, are impressed by the Karats' integrity! These five-star critics in the media know nothing about Marxism, as they have chosen to glorify the man whose party presided over a farmers' massacre just some time back to roll the red carpet for capitalism for his integrity as a Marxist. There can be no better proofs of the death of Marxism than the general ignorance about it and the gross deviations of its flag-bearers even at the cost of large-scale bloodshed.

There is in fact only a slight difference between Manmohan and Karat. While Manmohan is a liberal both in the economic and the political sense, Karat flirts with economic liberalism where his party is in power but keeps up his commitment to Communist state repression intact.

Most Communists have a problem with the US but like to visit it often -- perhaps to reinforce their hatred! They never set foot -- nor send their children -- to their beloved Iran and Iraq perhaps because they believe that the dignity of selfless love lies in maintaining distance.

If Gandhi famously said, "My life is my message", the CPM's national leadership insists that the lifestyle of a socialist should be poles apart from his message -- perhaps to magnify the message through the contrast!

Manmohan's greatest achievement lies in showing these holier-than-thou combination of anglicised hypocrites that there can only be a limited democratic role for those whose disconnect with the common man makes them electorally irrelevant.