Book to Read on the Truth of the Communist Movement

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Dr.Balakrishnan was associated with the communist movement even from his

high school days. He was active in the Kerala students Federation, the

student wing of the communist party (at present S.F.I.) and the Kerala

Socialist Youth Federation, the then youth wing of the party. He was attracted

to the Naxalite movement, which emerged in Kerala during 1968. He was

imprisoned for a short term also. The atrocities of Stalin and communistgovernment distanced him from the communist movement.

The present volume traces the origin of the communist movement in

Kerala to the Congress Socialist Party (CSP), which in turn was the product of

the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM) of 1930 - 32. The leadership of the

communist movement in Kerala had entered the political life of this country

as ardent freedom flighters. Leaders like Moyarath Shankaran had entered

political life in the nineteen twenties. Others like P.Krishna Pillai and

A.K.Gopalan entered the scene in the beginning of the CDM, and E.M.S.

Namboodiripad entered the scene at the end of the CDM. It was the

factionalism developed in the KPCC, which intensified the right-left infight and

led to the development of the Congress Socialist Party. The people who had

embraced congress Socialism in Kerala were people who had already

emotionally alienated themselves from the Gandhian leadership of the

Congress. As the All India leadership of the CSP was people who were by no

mens emotionally alienated from Gandhism, their interaction with Gandhismwas not on antagonistic planes. The spirit of accommodation shown by

Gandhians and the All India Socialist leaders were not acceptable to the

emotionally cultivated Kerala Socialists. Naturally when they came into

contact with the militant communist idealogy, this became attractive to them

and so a core led by P.Krishna Pillai and E.M.S. Namboodiripad established

contact with the All India Communist leadership. Stalinist ideology and

leadership of the Communist Party gave them emotional satisfaction and a

feeling of power and self-confidence. Psychologically they were becoming the

submissive followers of the authoritarian leadership of Stalin and his

ideology. In their eyes Stalin was an invincible leader who defeated his

enemies. Moreover, he had an ideology, personally attractive to the petty

bourgeois leadership of the CSP who were hurt by the socially and

economically dominant classes. Thus the institutional system of beliefs

embodied in Stalinism personally synchronized with the personal belief

systems of the petty bourgeois intellectuals. Submission to the authority of

Stralin soon developed into an authoritarian submission leading to a situation

in which everything Stalin did was justified, information emanating from


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Stalinist sources alone was accepted, and all information adverse to Stalin

were rejected as fabrications of the enemies of Stalin and his party. This

Closed Mind developed by them led to the rejection of all reasonable

knowledge and information that could be derived from normal sources. Then

onwards i.e., by 1937 - 39, they became possessed persons, guided by the

Stalinist metaphysics. Through Stalinism claimed itself to be a developmentof Marxism-Leninism, this was only a claim made by Stalin and his

supporters. However, because of the closed nature of their belief systems,

the communists in Kerala could not distinguish between Marxism and

Stalinism. The history of the metaphysics in action has been traced in all the

nine chapters. Owing to this Stalinist prepossession, instead of fighting

against imperialism by uniting with the Congress, as asked by Lenin, the

party always fought against the Congress, sometimes even joining with the

British.

Left parties and groups like the Forward Bloc, congress Socialist Party

etc., were attacked as fifth column, and imperialism was practically helped by

the communists during 1942 - 45, people confronted with such a repulsive

attitude from the Communist Party, waged a real war against the Communist

Party, and thus the name given to that period became significant - period of

peoples war against the Communist Party.

It was the same Stalinist prepossession that blinded their eyes to the

developments of 1946. Unable to perceive the reality of the dawning

freedom, the party embarked on a violent course of action in many parts of

Kerala. Though the August Resolution of 1946 was a mixture of violent andconstitutional lines, the party leadership in Kerala chose the violent path and

sacrificed thousands of lives for nothing. In 1948 the party being virtually

blinded by the metaphysical outlook and close mindedness, termed the

Indian State as a satellite one and called for a violent revolt. The party in

North Malabar, carried out violent agitations, leading to innumerable deaths

and repressions,. The police force and the State instead of getting more

democratized in independent India became more and more repressive to

combat communist violence. Unheard of violations of human rights, inhuman

lock up torture and shooting of prisoners were perpetrated independent India

on a scale even not heard of in the British period.

The party resorted to armed resistance against the police, and made

illegal encroachments on the properties of political opponents, and sized rice

and other things, but denied everything in public and organized false

propaganda as victims of police atrocities alone. The Police vied with the

party in this : they opened fire at the slightest provocation and killed the

arrested either by torture, or by firing after torture and gave it out that they


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were killed in encounters. The Police reprisals were out of proportion to

communist violence, but nobody ever defeated the communists in

propaganda. Later on, the stories of the police victimisation alone remained

which became an immense mine of stories for propaganda. Propaganda

machinery of post 1951 period projected this picture, with immense success.

Peacetime activities through legal channels have been quite useful to

the communists and socialists. Before the acceptance of violent communist

ideology, the socialists had organized the peasantry and working class with

good success. This process was started again in 1951. Organized propaganda

and agitation carried out during 1951 - 56 brought good results. In 1957 the

Stalinist party could not use its power with discretion. The tendency to

deaminate and dictate asserted through cell rule and interferences in the

day-to-day administration of the state by the party. Even the highest organ of

power in Kerala was relegated to the position of an organ of the Communists

Party. Other political parties which had grown vis a vis fighting the

communists, who knew the communists through their words and deeds

retaliated in the same coin. Using unconstitutional means and in uniting with

communal forces they brought down the communists from power.

The book is a boon to new generation who are fed on heaps of lies

regarding the Communist Party, their democratic credentials, patriotic

commitment, steadfastness to ideology and what not. The book clearly brings

to light, on the basis of incontrovertible documents, how from the beginning

the party leadership have been assiduously toeing the unscrupulous Stalinist

Line, even while mouthing Marxist slogans and Leninist shibboleths working

from within the Congress, they effectively torpedoed it. Claiming to follow

Gandhiji, they denounced him in most uncharitable terms. While eulogizing

revolution, they betrayed the greatest revolutionary, Nethaji Subash Chandra

Bose and showered him with the choicest abuses without any decency or

decorum. In Kerala, they left no stone unturned to denigrate the most honest

politician and sincere most friends of the poor, Sri K.Kelappan. Verbally

unleashing volumes of propaganda against communalism, they made the

worst compromise with it, thereby pushing Kerala into the mire of

fundamentalism. E.M.S. had the audacity to equate M Adani with Mahatmaji!

Similarly they paid lipservice of Sri Narayana Guru and even joined the

S.N.D.P. movement only to cleverly convert that great sprituo - cultural

organization into a mere party outfit. The net result of all such misdeeds isthe present muddle in which Kerala finds itself - a communist vision turned

into a consumerist mad-house! Kerala Model - the much - trumpeted

paradigm of socio - economic achievement reduced almost into one with the

highest crime rate and the lowest conviction rate, politicians of all hues

conspiring to protect sex - racketeers in this cent per cent literate state ! Is

not the biggest political force in the State answerable and responsible for this


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state of affairs?

Dr. Balakrishnan through this dissertation has turreted out facts from

obscure documents, newspapers and govt. reports and placed them before

the public without fear or favour.

The Chief merit of the work lies in being able to present to the

scholarly world the other side of the bright picture offered to the readers by

incessant communist propaganda. It exposes the intellectual and moral

weakness to the communist leadership and the entire communist movement.

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