The Left Hegemony: The Andhra Experience from 1934 to 1956
Journal Title: International Journal of History and Research (IJHR) - Year 2017, Vol 7, Issue 2
Abstract
The Left Parties were united in exposing the ‘Naked plunder’ and ill effects of Colonial rule of the people of India. But they were fragmented on the methods, strategies and tactics in the fight against the Colonial power. The Congress Socialist Party (CSP) thrived for the establishment of Democratic Socialism and, the Congress aspired for complete independence, whereas, Communists strove for the establishment of a “Socialistic state.” To achieve their respective goals, the two Left Parties chose different programs. While participating in anti-colonial movements with other Democratic Parties, Communists attempted to build a peoples' movement for a classless society. The CSP chose the parliamentary and other legal and open form of methods. Overall, the Left (parties) failed to understand the semi hegemonic, semi-suppressive character of the colonial state. Similarly, the Left could not assess the nature of the primary contradictions between British imperialism and the Indian people. On the whole, their hegemonic struggle was waged on a wrong terrain. “The Left believed that the National Movement should have a permanent mass and extra legal confrontation and conflict with imperialism, till it was overthrown.”1 The Communist Party of India’s (CPI) application of Marxism in Toto was marred by ideological and tactical confusions. The policies, programs and political line of the Andhra unit of the CPI were adopted from the “Communist International (Comintern)” and the CPI. Further, Andhra Provincial Communist Committee’s understanding of Colonialism, attitude towards National Movement, Gandhi and other Left Parties almost ‘resembles’ the official line of the CPI. An attempt has been made in this paper to study the theoretical and practical aspects of their ideology, and its implications with regard to their rise and fall in Andhra region i.e. residue Andhra Pradesh state
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KANDUKURI RAMESH
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