Some had predicted that the CPI (M) Party Congress in Kozhikode would be a historic one. However, the media guessed it right. They knew that no history was going to be made in Kozhikode. So, fewer media persons came to report the Kozhikode Congress compared to the large gathering of national media, especially Hindi media, at the previous Congress in Coimbatore.
What happened in the walled venue modeled like red fort and culminated on the arena modeled like Roman coliseum was the fight between two factions in the Kerala unit.
The finale at the coliseum showed the defeat of Opposition Leader in Kerala V. S. Achuthanandan by party State secretary Pinarayi Vijayan, watched by the Central leadership of the party. Television cameras showed a defeated Achuthanandan leaving the arena before the show concluded.
The party is still ambiguous whether it has abandoned the Chinese model of communism. Well, there is hardly any model in China to be followed now. And it is an uphill task for the CPI (M) to develop an indigenous model and ideology as its foundations had been shaken by weakening of Marxism as well as the caliber of its leadership.
Some party leaders have succumbed to pelf and lure of sex. But the real issue is not that some leaders succumb to temptations, but the majority in the party is incapable of acting against them. There is general deterioration of ideological underpinnings of the party and the cadre.
So, even after the Congress, the party would be looking for alternatives. And on the political front, it has no alternative but to ride piggy back on regional parties.
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In China people or particians cannot block roads or make harthals as they please. In fact in China people are forced to do hard labour, here without doing anything CPM supporters unions live sucking blood of middle class. Instead of lifting cement, rockm etc they remain as bystanders and let the owner lift in on his own or make arrangements to lift and when its done they come to take money for watching the fiasco. No party can control this, everywhere t
they are exploiting middle class. They force their own judegement on people and kill opponents like in Kannur. There is no element of communism its simply facism in CPM, since more and more working class is coming from Bengal and Orissa and not interested to give percent to CPM, soon this party is going to be eliminated. Already in North India its disappeared. Only in Kerala this is surviving because of Hindu concentration to these parties and UDF is succumbing to the pressure or Muslims and Christians and presnet UDF rule is becoming Anti-Hindu.
Little doubt that the party is on the way to getting fossilized unless it reinvents itself.