The Frontline Years: Selected ArticlesLeftWord Books, 2010 - 236 من الصفحات The present volume puts together a selection of EMS's Frontline columns. It is a testimony to the variety of his interests, his erudition, and his ability to communicate complex questions of history, politics and Marxist theory in simple and elegant prose. EMS discusses, among other things, the roles and contributions of Congress leaders from Dadabhai Naoroji and Ranade to Gandhi, Subhas Bose and Nehru, to Narasimha Rao and Manmohan Singh; he discusses the thoughts and relevance of Marxist theoreticians including Lenin, Rosa Luxemburg, Mao Zedong and Stalin, as well as Nelson Mandela; he writes on religion, philosophy and art; he discusses important questions of the Indian polity including planning and centre-state relations; he comments on the Indian Communist movement (including on the decision not to join the United Front government at the centre in 1996); and he writes about the radical experiments in Kerala. |
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Publishers Note | 9 |
Is the CPI M Stalinist? | 25 |
Different Paths One Goal | 39 |
Philosopher and Society | 52 |
World Socialism Today | 69 |
The Legacy of Engels | 74 |
Triumph and Tragedy | 90 |
Criticism and SelfCriticism | 103 |
What Secularism Means | 130 |
Options Ahead | 146 |
The Ongoing Struggle | 162 |
From Congress to Coalition | 178 |
Empowering Women | 194 |
Netajis | 208 |
Planning Basics | 212 |
Eight Decades of Indias Communist Movement | 227 |
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15th Congress adopted anti-imperialist backward basis Bharatiya Janata Party Bose bourgeois British rulers castes and communities Central Centre China Christian Committee Communist movement Communist Party Congress Constitution culture decades democracy developed capitalist countries dictatorship E.M.S. Namboodiripad Economic Policy elections electoral fact fascism feudal fighting former socialist countries freedom Government’s Gowda Government Hindu Hindutva ideological imperialism imperialist independence Indian National Indian National Congress industries Janata Party Kerala leaders leadership Left and secular Left parties Lenin liberation theology Mahatma Gandhi major Marx and Engels Marxism-Leninism Marxist-Leninists mass militant Narasimha Rao Government Nehru non-Congress oppressed organized panchayats parliamentary participation Party of India people’s democratic philosophy planning practice principle question Quit India struggle religion religious revolutionary Rig Veda ruling classes Russia Sangh secular democratic forces socialism socialist socialist construction socio-cultural socio-political Soviet Union Stalin Subhas Tamil Nadu United Front unity women world capitalism