CPI(M) to prepare document redefining ideological role

Kolkata, Feb 25 (UNI) In a bid to redefine its identity in the era of globalisation the CPI(M) is set to prepare the party's ideological document, for the first time since its inception, striking a balance between Marxism and capitalism.

With the fall of the Soviet Union raising many a question and the iron curtain in China opening up to unbridled capital from the West, it was time for the party to chart out its way in the Indian context, assimilating new lessons and discarding the practice of classical Marxism.

''The Central Committee will work on an ideological document in the Indian context, which we do not have till now. The document will be our guiding force to negotiate the present complex situation with a new handle, yet upholding our Marxist identity,'' top sources in the party said.

The draft for the proposed document would be sent for debate in the party at different levels before being finally endorsed.

The party, which came into being following a split with the CPI in 1964, had so far been run on the basis of the joint declaration of the Communist parties of 12 Socialist countries, which was issued after a meeting in Moscow in 1957.

Approving the line of the 20th party Congress of the Communist Party of Soviet Union(CPSU), held in the previous year, the declaration emphasised on international solidarity of the 'growing' communist movement and opening up a new stage in the wordlwide movement along the Marxist-Leninist lines.

In keeping with the spirit, the CPI(M), from the very beginning, has also described itself as a revolutionary vanguard of workers with an objective of ushering socialism through 'Proletariat Dictatorship'.

However, things went wrong after Communism was banished from its own land--the USSR-- and the iconic Kremlin came crashing leading to the serial disaster in the East European Socialist countries and East Germany.

Groping for an answer, for the party to move forward and maintain its relevance, the CPI(M) leadership concluded after brainstorming parleys that Marxism was not at fault, but what went wrong in those countries was the inability to keep pace with the changing time.

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