New Delhi (The Statesman/ANN) - The Communist Party of India (CPI-M)'s draft resolution on the "ideological challenges" before it after the beginning of globalisation is out. In the party's view, globalisation is nothing but "imperialism's quest for global hegemony," and socialism alone can end "humanity's exploitation".
In the Indian context, the resolution released today said the onslaught of globalisation is to be fought through "powerful mass and popular struggles," and India will not copy China, Russia or Latin America, in its path towards socialism, although learning from their experiences. To be adopted at the CPI-M's 20th party congress at Kozhikode (Kerala) from 4 to 9 April, the 79-page resolution released by the party general secretary, Mr Prakash Karat, is open to amendments and debate at party forums over the next two months. The document, suggested by the party's 18th party congress in 2005, takes note of international changes since the collapse of the Soviet Union, and nearly re-states the party's oft-repeated diagnosis that capitalism is evil, and globalisation only meant for profit-maximisation of the rich nations.
Interestingly, the resolution sees "identity politics" as one of the party challenges, and criticises "caste-based political mobilisation," while the party's Kozhikode political resolution, and party leaders themselves, do not rule out electoral alliances with political parties raised on regional and caste appeals. Answering a question on this apparent contradiction, the party politburo member, Sitaram Yechury, who released the party "Resolution on Some Ideological Issues" with Karat, said "electoral strategies are different". Political movements, he said, did not bring changes in the party's policies. Summing up the party's view on international developments in the past two decades, the resolution said, "thus, imperialism's quest for global hegemony is the fountainhead that continues to deny humanity its complete emancipation, liberation and progress."
The economic reforms package initiated by globalisation, including financial liberalisation, opening of markets by countries through trade liberalisation, privatisation of State-owned assets, conversion of public utilities (electricity, water, sanitation, civic amenities, etc.) and services (education, health) into areas of "profit generation," were an international phenomenon, it said.
While the US and Europe witnessed protests like Occupy Wall Street movement, the "rising number of Left, progressive and anti-neo liberal democratically elected Governments in Latin America" showed there could be an "alternative to imperialist globalisation and neo-liberalism within capitalism", the resolution said.
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