Elaan March-June 2011 – The Red Faced Communist

What is so unusual for a communist to be red? It is after all the color that history has assigned for the advanced vanguard party of the proletariat.

So why is Buddhadev shy of his red face?? He absented himself from the politburo meeting of CPM at Delhi and a senior leader had to be sent to Kolkata to pacify him. As a “good communist” he should have known that you cannot run a capitalist shop under a red flag for too long. True, the results of election declared on 13th May was indeed embarrassing by any count. Left Front got just 62 as compared to 226 seats won by Trinamul+. Even the weak Congress got more seats than CPM. Trinamul’s Ma, Mati and Mamata were of course far ahead..

After a considerable period of sulking, Buddhadev did show up in a public meeting on 31st May, 2011 at Kolkata. The first thing he said was that CPM will be keeping a watch over her Government!  Marxism teaches us that it is the class that keeps a tab on Governance of its representative political party. Mr. Bhattacharjee appears to have usurped the role of the capitalist class to keep a tab on Trinamul! His party has apparently completely forgotten that it had chosen the parliamentary path to usher in Socialism and not to supervise the status-quo of the bourgeois parliamentary system. The long stint in the Government has changed the party which wanted to change the system. The Ambanis and Adanis have another option now. The republican-democrat pair. Maa-Mati-Manoosh-Marxists…

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