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A Recall to Basic Principles: Radical Socialist Statement on United Opposition Presidential Candidate

DetailsPublished on Friday, 24 June 2022 08:31Written by Radical Socialist

The old Nehruvian hegemony is gone. It has been replaced by a Sanghi Hindutva and Neoliberal hegemony. And by selecting Yashwant Sinha the Vajpayee acolyte and minister as united opposition candidate, the bourgeois opposition has revealed its inability to even present a secular  bourgeois democratic face, and its subordination to that very Sanghi hegemony. And three General Secretaries of three alleged Communist Parties took part in this charade. Thereby they showed a total opposition to any class direction. 

Any independent working class politics, and of course any revolutionary socialist politics, has to have an election outlook that strengthens class independence. Even Nehruvian hegemony with its talk of democracy and development with state support was actually aimed at ideological disarming of the working class. The present Hindutva hegemony denies trade union rights, wants to push women into housework and domesticity, wants to impose caste hierarchy and of course exclude religious minorities from active citizenship. Yashwant Sinha participated in the Vajpayee Government and is only a Modi dissident. Support to him is a total betrayal of the exploited and oppressed masses. Resist this. Cadres of the left parties should ask for explanations from their leaders and demand a reversal of policy, because every rotten compromise with Saffron politics, every deal to fight aggressive Hindutva with soft Hindutva, will just strengthen and legitimize Sangh politics within left and working class forces. 

It is better to be defeated fighting for principles, for a revival will come, than to betray principles in the name of a practical politics that leads us into bourgeois right-wing sewers.