Bangalore: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu, a Khamma, inaugurated the Rs. 60-lakh Neelam Rajasekhara Reddy Research Centre on Marxist Studies here on Sept.30 last. It is part of the 5-acre complex of the Chandra Rajeswara Rao Foundation. Neelam and Rao were top leaders of the communist (CPI) movement in AP.
Marxism is dead in AP like in all other parts of India. Even when it was some force, it did not provide solace to the country’s exploited “low castes”. It no longer attracts the youth seeking social change.
In AP, marxism was the monopoly of its two rival shudra upper castes— Reddys and Khammas. As The CPI was monopolised by the Reddys, the Khammas joined the CPM to fight the Reddys.
In Kerala, E.M.S. Namboodiripad used marxism to promote Brahminism and enslave particularly the Backward Caste Ezhavas. In W. Bengal, marxism was in the pocket of its three upper castes Brahmins, Baidyas and Kayasths.
Whatever ism comes to India, it is used by the Brahminical forces to further its class-caste interests. This happened with gandhism, JP’s “total revolution”, which became a total failure, naxalite movement. Even powerful egalitarian religions like Budhism, Sikhism and even Christianity and Islam are not spared.
Even Ambedkarism is coming under heavy strain, forcing it to subserve Brahminism.
We have discussed all these in our book, How Marx Failed in Hindu India (DSA-) by our Editor V.T. Rajshekar.
DV Edit June 1, 1985: “Marxism to the rescue of brahminism”
