Mainstream WeeklyNalini Taneja, a historian and a well-known left activist in India, critiques the Draft resolution of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) CPI(M) for its 24th congress that drops its characterisation of the BJP as a fascist entity
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What more do parties like the CPI (M) and others who think like them want to wait for the Modi regime, powered by the RSS and the most reactionary sections among the monopoly capital, to do before they open their eyes to its fascist moorings?
It is before our eyes what the Sangh Parivar has achieved since 2014, not to forget the 1980s and the 1990s; and yet a communist party like the CPI (M) is unfazed and unwilling to concede the rapid strides towards implementation of what are recognisably fascist policies and actions.
Rather, it is willing to list these actions and policies without acknowledging their content to be any more than attempts to divide Hindus and Muslims, a thrust towards inequality with heavy consequences for the working people, and, at best, a state of "corporate authoritarianism" tinged with Hindutva.
In other words, a state of affairs that COULD lead towards