Left to Right, Decline of Communism in India
Oct-24-2013
“Left to Right” is a basic reference book that should be read by all practitioners or students of revolution, of socialism-communism, of Marxism.
Asfar Faridy, Associate Editor India Next Hindi Daily Addressing - Left to Right Book Release at Delhi 14 Apr 2013 popularfrontindia.com
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(COPENHAGEN) - T.G. Jacob, an Indian scholar and former Maoist activist, has written a tour de force about the century-long history of India’s many communist parties. Left to Right, Decline of Communism in India’s main contribution is its description and analysis of these parties’ failures and it does so without stooping to anti-communism or in pandering to the capitalist class. (1)
Jacob’s well researched book is honest, courageous, and challenging. Nor does he beat around the bush. Jacob contends that the “dismal failure” and decline of most communist parties into social democracy is partly a consequence of colonised mindsets that facilitated communists to become lackeys of the Soviet-led Comintern and the British Communist party.
