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The central committee of the CPI (Maoist) has denounced “pro-people” initiatives such as land reforms that the government hopes can help end Maoist violence. “We must denounce the futility of reformism in solving the basic problems of the people and put the revolution as alternative to the masses,” the central committee says in a recent document.
The 20-page document dated September 1, 2013, also sets out tasks in the tenth year of the outfit’s formation. It calls the Land Acquisition Act and Food Security Act “imperialist-sponsored”. The Land Acquisition Act, it says, “is a total sell(out) to imperialists that further opened the doors for purchase of Indian companies by multinationals”. In the chapter “National Situation” it criticises the food security legislation, Forest Rights Act and MNREGS as “false and misleading” reforms.
“Reformism has become ideological and political current more dangerous in the world and in our country, where many current reforms are a clear indication of this. Several laws passed by Parliament such as food security, land acquisition, vendors, etc should be viewed as part of the current reforms,” the committee observes, adding, “We must denounce the false and misleading nature of the reforms sponsored by imperialists, the ruling parties and state.”
Attributing the reforms to “organisations, social forces and revisionists funded by government and multinational companies”, the committee alleges, “All kinds of reformist forces are shamelessly supporting neo-liberal economic policies of the imperialists that deprive the people of land, water, forest, respect and rights.”
It says: “Land Acquisition Act is a strategic offensive against our programme of agrarian revolution. (It) concentrated all power in the central government to give land to multinational corporations… It has further opened the doors for purchase of Indian companies by multinationals… The Food Security Bill is ostensibly aimed at feeding the poor and reducing malnutrition but will not really (help achieve) even a small percentage of your target. It has granted more free hand to free market.”
On the law to protect street vendors, the committee says it actually is a “legal action to cover the loss of livelihood of street vendors by licensing only a few.” It adds, “We must convince (people) that repression and false reforms are the two aspects of the same policy of carrot and stick.”
‘Bolshevisation’
The document also acknowledges growing “non-proletarian” trends within the Maoist ranks due to influence of “cultures of caste, religion and imperialism” and calls for a strong “Bolshevisation” programme to restore “firm adherence to Marxism-Leninism-Maoism.”
“The class composition of our party is predominantly social class, peasant and petty. The influence of views, ideas, culture, work, working methods, style bourgeois, petty bourgeois and feudal are negatively impacting our members. To promote the implementation of the revolutionary spirit discipline, (we) must pay special attention to education in the ideals, values and culture (of) communists. Concrete rectification campaigns where and when necessary, the examination of our practice and the decision at each meeting and a profound criticism and self-criticism should be taken as a means to get rid of non-proletarian currents such as subjectivism, spontaneity, liberalism, sectarianism, bureaucracy, patriarchy, etc, prevailing at different levels and in different degrees and different ways in our party,” it says.
The documents admits a “weakening of the mass base” as one of the main reasons for the “critical condition currently facing national revolutionary movement”, and calls for strengthening the base “strictly adhering to the class and mass line”.
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