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Poet K. Satchidanandan has said that Communist parties successful India should strive towards strengthening democracy, but not arsenic a strategy “till the accomplishment of the existent revolution”. He was delivering a recorded code astatine an lawsuit to people the commencement centenary of Mandakini Narayanan, a erstwhile Naxalite leader, present connected Saturday (October 25).
Mr. Satchidanandan said that 1 of the important reasons for the diminishing power of Indian Marxism was its refusal to person superior discussions connected caste. He pointed retired that ideology would beryllium effectual present lone if the dissenting voices against the hegemonies perpetuated by caste, class, patriarchy, gender, race, colour, and connection were stronger. “For that, the Communists request to truly judge successful democracy, not arsenic a strategy till the accomplishment of the ‘revolution’... We request to thatch the existent procreation existent history. It should besides beryllium ensured that our wide institutions are not manipulated by the ruling establishment,” helium added.
Vibhuti Patel, world and feminist, opened the event. Mandakini Narayanan, a postulation of articles edited by her girl K. Ajitha, and Kunnikkal Narayanan: Oru Communistinte Viplavachinthakal, edited by writer R.K. Bijuraj, were released connected the occasion. Later successful the evening, feminist and activistic Gita Ramaswamy delivered a lecture.
