WINDS OF CHANGE

Some of them felt that it was not enough to take instructions from Moscow. Possibly they wanted them to be mixed up with some instructions from Peking and they split. The Communist rightists are pursued by the Communist Marxists and now we find a third Communist bloc is emerging, the wolf of the Naxa­lites, on the tail of the Communist Marxist. They themselves are suffering from their own contradictions. You want to go and join with them? Can we try to take an extremist line of that type? The Communist rightist party, really speaking, has lost all its popular support. If you see the general trend of the results of the last two elections, this should be abundantly clear. They are depending more on the split in the Congress and on the general global political developments that take place under the leadership of Soviet Russia. That is their politics. The Com­munist Marxists are talking in terms of the theory of armed revo­lution, but they feel that present is not the time to resort to any armed revolution. Therefore, tactically they want to use the present situation to intensify the class struggles and then see that it develops into a sort of armed struggle in days to come. Naxal­ites are honest enough to say that this is the right time for an armed revolution and they are talking in terms of adventur­ism. Now this is the picture on the left side. The picture on the right side, I have mentioned. The people who argue —I know, honestly argue about it — say that the one reason why we lost in General Elections and in mid-term elections is the new strategy of united front that is being developed by the opposition parties into some sort of a political gherao of Congress by all the other political parties. Well, it is a political gherao. If the Indian democratic socialism has to be saved, I think it will be our duty to break this political gherao, with deter­mination, with plan and with confidence in ourselves. But how can we break this political gherao? Some people have started saying that, "If you want to break this political gherao, better go and join the political gherao yourself". This is a very wonderful argument. There are other two parties; they say — "don't join the left and don't join the right but we have two socialist poli­tical parties, one is the PSP, the other is the SSP. I know these parties do not want to have anything to do with the Congress. I do not know why we are talking in terms of having something to do with them. We know what PSP is : we know what SSP is. As a matter of fact they are protestants. Their only philo­sophy is to find the fault with the Congress and prove that Congress is wrong. This is a sort of negative Congressism and that is their philosophy. What can you do with such people? Even these two political parties are suffering and cracking under this negative philosophy of anti-Congressism in their own field. Do you want to suggest that we can go with them and strengthen ourselves.