Communist tradition lingers on to damage India's national interest in better crop technologies

Communist parties haven’t always spoken for India’s national interest. Writing in 1995 in an article titled “The Question of Communist Unity”, Harkishan Singh Surjeet, a doyen of India’s Communism movement and general secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), or CPM who died in 2008, berated his brethren from the Communist Party of India (CPI) for taking a “chauvinistic” approach by supporting the Indian government’s actions during the 1962 India-China war. Surjeet recalled how CPM had asked for a “peaceful settlement of the dispute” rather than military confrontation—never mind that China had been the unilateral aggressor and India was defending its territory—and highlighted how his party had a “proletarian, internationalist outlook” in contrast to what he described as CPI’s chauvinism. Clearly, he saw himself and CPM aligned more with internationalist rather than nationalist priorities.
It’s important to understand this background of the Left in India and the CPM and its philosophy in particular to appreciate the body blow the party’s leaders are trying to land on the future of India’s agriculture sector and livelihood of farmers. Proletariat-friendly “internationalism” is the creed of this political party, and they are prepared to sacrifice what is India’s national interest and the interest of farmers in the dogmatic pursuit of their ideology.

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