Press
Release November
27th2021
Kobad
Ghandy wrote a book named ‘fractured freedom a prison memoir’ and
released it to the
public
in 2021 after his release in 2019 from prison. Through this book, it
is understood that he was
completely
separated from Marxism-Leninism-Maoism. While in prison, in 2010, he
released six articles
like
“question of freedom, people’s emancipation’ which expressed
humanitarianism, idealism that are in
essence
bourgeoisie and ruling class ideology. ‘Mainstream’ magazine
published those articles. Those
thoughts
re-emerged in a crystallized form in the fractured freedom book.
Sitting under the trees of jail
premises,
Kobad reviewed his practice, he came to conclusion that first of all
there should be an
environment
of freedom, new set of values and universal happiness. He also stated
that these three
aspects
of life that have to be woven into any project for change that did
not reflect in his 40 year
revolutionary
life, so put this as goal post before going to change the world. He
is also saying that the
essence
should be grasped from bourgeoisie moral stories. In this way, by
selecting idealist path he is
dishonestly
saying that there is no happiness and freedom in the Marxist way of
practice that is why,
Marxism
is failed in reaching its target. He is wrongly explaining and
commenting on Marxism-Leninism-
Maoism.
Marxism is telling that correct ideas should be generated through
class struggle, production and
scientific
research in society. Karl Marx quoted in Capital that the man should
develop his dormant
potentialities
and take into control the inner potentialities through the process of
changing the external
world;
by this process only he can also change his nature (thought). We
can’t achieve a change in the
thoughts
of man without applying a revolutionary action for the change of
external world. The Kobad’s
mysticism
is only related to the feudal and bourgeoisie ideology but it has no
relation to Marxism which is
more
scientific in philosophical aspect. Kobad abandoned the dialectical
and historical materialism,
principles
of Marxism and class struggle, but he selected the way of getting
happiness through mysticism.
Mr.
Kobad Ghandy followed Naxalbari politics more than 40 years and
continued CC member of the
CPI(ML)
Peoples War and acted as Maharashtra State Committee Leader and
latter continued Polit Bureau
member
of CPI(Maoist) until his arrest. In 2009, he was arrested; right from
his arrest he was telling that he
was
not a Maoist. So many times he told in press meets that police
clamped concocted cases upon him. He
categorically
stated that, was not a Maoist. Being a member of the highest
committee of the revolutionary
party,
he told untruth immediately after his arrest. He had lost integrity
and trying to satisfy the ruling
classes.
What will be the message to be given to the society? What value it
has?
After
releasing from jail he did not contact the party, without discussing
the party and violating the
party
constitution, democratic centralism and ideological principles, he
wrote and released the book. This
is
all displaying the anarchist tendencies in Kobad Ghandy. By this book
he is trying to inculcate pessimism
in
the revolutionary camp and false allegations against the Maoist
party. When the fascist Modi
government
is trying hard to root out the revolutionary movement until 2022 by
intensifying the
Samadhan-Prahar
military campaign, Kobad released his book in the service of ruling
class. He explained in
the
book that he had good companion with criminal world and jail
authorities and had comfortable life in
prison.
Without shame, he openly praised the criminal gangs and jail
authorities. He falsely alleged that the
Maoists
had close links with mafia and often led them in jail. But since the
Naxalbari period, the Naxalites
form
a revolutionary tradition and lead so many struggles for the cause of
prisoners’ rights in particular
and
revolution in general with sacrifices. Mr.Kobad made filthy
allegations against the party in prison, he
didn’t
raise his voice against the jail authorities for the cause of
prisoners. Besides that, he got individual
facilities
from the authorities. He has no right to speak against Maoist
prisoners. In addition to that, he is
propagating
that the party has no support from people, the party is roving
rebels. This is nothing but
joining
his voice with ruling class propaganda.
Kobad
criticized Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and its political practice in his
book. What was the
reason
of defeat in the struggle for socialism at the time of Marx, Lenin,
Stalin and Mao? What were the
reasons
behind the failure of Cultural Revolution after Mao’s death? He
raised these questions and he said
that
in the Marx’s writings the humanitarian principles were present,
but these were absent in the
practical
movements in the later periods. He didn’t give importance to the
humanitarian values in the
socialist
states formed in the leadership of Lenin, Stalin and Mao. He also
said that economic determinism
had
played dominance in those movements, in this way dictatorship
displaced the democratic centralism in
the
communist parties. Because of this, socialism was failed, these are
the arguments posed by Kobad in
his
book. He is distorting history that the revolutions didn’t success
in peace period and succeed only in
world
war period. The influence of power and money should be minimized in
communist society. Marxism
explained
the way for the attainment of that. Despite that, money and power are
the main problems in the
society
and these are creating so many deviations. By saying that, Kobad is
trying to divert the people from
the
way of attaining state power through struggle path. In this way he is
opposing fundamental principles
of
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism. The ideological and political struggle
between MLM and bourgeoisie
ideology
has been going on for the last 175 years. MLM achieved so many
successes and gained rich
experiences
in the field of ideological political struggle. Those victories are
useful for the proletariat and
oppressed
people. Mr. Kobad is denying all these victories and trying to betray
the oppressed people and
proletariat.
He
is questioning that what has achieved the communist party since its
formation, what is the
reason
for the setback of the revolutionary movement in India? The
revolutionary parties without research
saying
with determinism the revolution will succeed. He is questioning they
are not recognizing the
changes
that took place in the working class. He is also said that the party
reduced the caste problem into
class
issue. He is criticizing that the communists are saying that the
caste will be disappeared through
industrialization.
The Maoist party had been originated in the struggle against
revisionism and established
as
a true revolutionary party in the country. The party is making
documents by analyzing concrete
conditions
in a scientific way and also enriching these documents according to
the changes that took place.
We
can find the answers in these documents for the questions raised by
Kobad Ghandy. As a member of
the
party’s leading committee, participating in the discussions at the
time of framing documents and
willfully
concealing the facts with false allegations is nothing but a
bankruptcy on the part of Kobad.
By
rejecting the revolutionary politics, he has stepped into the mire of
bourgeoisie idealism. He
belongs
to the upper middle class family. He came into the party from the
national bourgeoisie class. He
grownup
in the corporate world. He studied in Doon school. He studied in
Landon for some time. He was
influenced
by the Naxalbari movement, and ultimately joined in the revolutionary
movement. He emerged
as
a one of the leading member in the Maharashtra movement. He was
studied Marxism-Leninism in the
library
in Landon, where Karl Marx had studied. But he failed in applying the
theory to the concrete
conditions.
So he argued dogmatically against dialectical materialism. It
reflected in left adventurist
tendency
in words and right opportunism in practice. These deviations are
leading to form groups in the
party.
The party is tried to rectify the Kobad through the internal
struggles. But he was not come out of the
wrong
deviations. When the ruling classes intensified the repression with
the formation of CPI(Maoist),
and
ultimately after his arrest these wrong deviations reflected in his
writings. Every person, to rectify
himself,
should have to participate directly in the class struggle, peoples
war and studying the concrete
conditions.
Through this method the dogmatic wrong tendencies of subjective
thinking should be
transformed.
Mr.Kobad gave least importance to this, in his four decades
revolutionary life. He is an
introvert
as he was said. He did not show interest in discussions with other
comrades and not tried to
enrich
the practical knowledge. He didn’t transform his revolutionary life
in accordance with the
proletarian
ideology. He could not analyze the difficulties and setbacks that
bound to in the revolutionary
movement
in the long history of the movement. He came into the pessimism and
estimating the party
mistakes
in a one sided way and getting irritate etc. In this way, so many
times these tendencies reflected
in
his revolutionary life as these are the reflections of petty
bourgeoisie false prestige. Lastly, he himself
made
scapegoat for this wrong tendency and became the opponent of
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism.
In
this way, in prison life and after his release here turned back to
corporate world. After 40 years,
he
went back to the rotten semi feudal-semi colonial system of society.
He is saying that this ‘return’ is a
great
happening. He felt suffered in the revolutionary movement because
there is no creativity as he
described.
He is telling proudly that the corporate world will give dynamism to
his thoughts. So it is true
that
a stone that fell from a top of a hill can travel to the lowest point
of distance. The opinions brought
forth
by Kobad are not new. Mr.Kobad Joined with those Marxists like
Bernstein and Dangay that were
agreeing
marxism in words and opposing main principles of Marxism in deeds. So
the central committee is
expelling
Kobad Ghandy from the party according to the party constitution for
his anti party activities of
reviving
MLM, false propaganda against party, combining his voice with the
ruling classes, promoting class
collaborationist
theory instead of class struggle, seriously violating the party
discipline and became
mystical
preacher.
Dear
people,
We
are appealing to the revolutionary people, sympathizers, democrats
and intellectuals condemn
and
refute the anti revolutionary opportunistic and ruling class ideology
of Kobad Ghandy. We are
appealing
to the file and rank of the party expose and refute the Kobad
Ghandy’s propositions and theories
that
merged with the ruling class ideology who lost the revolutionary
spirit. Kobad is not the first person
who
returns back to rotten system with selfish ends. In previous
occasions also, the revolutionary
movements
advanced by overcoming these hindrances. Our party, in the working
class leadership by
organizing
the people with an aim to establish communist society will advance
step by step to the final
victory.
Note:
We will soon release an answer to the Kobad’s ‘fractured freedom
a jail memoir’.
Abhay
Spokesperson
Central
Committee
CPI(Maoist)
