Hyderabad, February 11: Varavara Rao, a revolutionary poet and writer, has called for an integrated struggle by the country’s Marxist-Leninist political groups under the commonly accepted Naxalbari Movement, to achieve the larger goal of New Democratic Revolution and devising an alternative development plan to the imperialist agenda.
Naxalbari Movement is the primary level of integration which can be expanded to include all democratic and secular forces towards building a revolution, he said while delivering the Pyla Vasudeva Rao Memorial Lecture on ‘Four decades of revolutionary movement’ organised by the Pyla Vasudeva Rao Memorial Committee at Sundaraiah Vignana Kandram here today.
“Irrespective of the errors committed, India is the only country where Communist parties have firmly resolved to replace the bourgeois state with people’s power. It is the sole instance of hope left for the world, ” he said.
“The Naxalbari Movement brought together different personalities and revolutionary cultures under the unified agenda of land struggles and annihilation of class enemy, and differences among lines exist only in terms of conditions conducive for overthrow of state power. Given the right kind of world outlook, struggles can be rebuilt despite the temporary setbacks.”
He sought to draw parallels between Adivasis and radical revolutionaries based on their commonly shared principles against private property and their ability to unite. In Marxist thought, he sought to locate the direction and purpose for tribal struggles, as benefits of such fights would be lost in the absence of proletarian power.
“For good or bad, tribal regions have now become focus of even the market-based imperialism. It can be seen in the liberated Dandakaranya region being sought by the market forces,” Varavara Rao observed. Despite their united stand against the imperialist forces and prevalence of different conditions, the revolutionary forces could not integrate the sporadic struggles in places such as Sompet and Bhalluguda, he said.
Varavara Rao sought to question the revolutionary parties as to their programme against imperial agenda and their alternative, if any, to the idea of a proletarian state.
–Agencies