E.M.S. Namboodiripad The Frontline Years (Selected Articles)

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Item Code: NAE708
Author: E.M.S. Namboodiripad
Publisher: Left Word Books, New Delhi
Language: English
Edition: 2010
ISBN: 9788187496939
Pages: 237
Cover: Paperback
Other Details 8.5 inch x 5.5 inch
Weight 270 gm
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The present volume puts together a selection of EMS’s Frontline columns. It is a testimony to the variety of his interests, his erudition, and his ability to communicate complex questions of history, politics and Marxist theory in simple and elegant prose. EMS discusses, among other things, the roles and contributions of congress leaders from Dadabhai Naoroji and Ranade to Gandhi Subhas Bose and Nehru, to Narasimha Rao and Manmohan Singh; he discusses the thoughts and relevance of Marxist theoreticians including Lenin, Rosa Luxemburg, Mao Zedong and Stalin, as well as Nelson Mandela; he writes on religion, philosophy and art; he discusses important questions of the Indian polity including planning and centre-state relations; he comments on the Indian communist movement (including on the decision not to join the United Front government at the centre in 1996); and he writes about the radical experiments in Kerala

About The Author

E.M.S. NAMBOODIRIPAD (1909-1998) was among India’s pioneering Communist leaders and a Marxist theoretician of enormous stature. He became Chief Minister of Kerala on two occasions, in 1957 at the head of the historic first communist government, and again in 1967 as head of a seven-party coalition. He was the author of several books and hundreds of articles and essays.

Contents

Publisher's Note9
EMS the Columnist11
Marxism in Theory and practice13
The Path of Socialism
Progress of Indian Communist Movement19
Is the CPI (m) 'Stalinist'?
The need for clear-sightedness025
Needed political will
To resist Pressure from Imperialism30
Off the track
The Nehru Model of Indian Planning34
Different Paths, One Goal
Communists and the Quit India Struggle39
Philosopher of Secularism
On Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya43
Religionless christianity
On liberation Theology47
Philosopher and Society
From Buddha and Sankara to Vivekananda52
Mao's Thought
Applying Marxism to chinese Reality56
On Indian Nationalism
From Naoroji and Ranade to Narasimha rao and Manmohan singh62
World Socialism Today and Tomorrow69
The Legacy of Engels
Revolution's Friend, Philosopher and Guide74
The Mahatma's Greatness
And a Movement that Strayed78
An Eagle of Revolution
The Lenin-Luxemburg Debate82
Right and Left Alternatives to the Congress86
Triumph and Tragedy
'Forgotten Story' of the Indian National Army90
The Positive and the Negative
in Stalin's Personality94
Lessons of the Emergency99
Criticism and Self-Criticism
A Feature of India's Communist Movement103
Panchayati Raj and Centre-State Relations108
The Marxist Definition
Class and Caste in 'Creamy Layer' Controversy112
Coming Full Circle
Kerala Politics from 1957 to 1995116
Essence of Leninism
Building Socialism in a Backward Country120
'Opium of the People'
Marxist Theory and Religion124
What Secularism Means
In Politics and Socio-Cultural Life130
On With the Struggle134
Civil Code Debate
Personal Laws and Women's Equality138
The Rig Veda
Holy Book or Work of Literature?142
Options Ahead
The Issue before the Voters146
Is Secularism Anti-Religion?151
The Liberation Theology
Its Theory and Praxis154
Non-Alignment Today158
The Ongoing Struggle
On Nelson Mandela's Autobiography162
VIPs and Prosecutions
An Alternative to Lok Pal166
Art and Politics
Social Roots of Art and the Role of the Talented Artist169
Centre-State Relations to the Fore174
From Congress to Coalition
Indian Politics, 1952-1996178
Resisting the CTBT
Imperialist Pressures Will Intensify183
A Kerala Experiment
Planningfrom Below-and Above186
People's Plan
The Why and How of a Massive Exercise in Kerala190
Empowering Women
The Need to Fight Male Chauvinism194
Inner- Party Democracy
The Contrast between the Congress and the CPl (M)198
A Settled Matter
The CPI(M),s Position on
Participation in the Deve Gowda Government203
Netaji'sWay
Subhas Bose's Contribution to the Freedom Struggle208
Planning Basics
From Nehru to the era of Liberalization212
Questions of Social Transition
Deng Xiaoping's Role in the Communist Movement216
What Marxism Is
The Theory and its Revolutionary Practice220
The Opposition and the Left
Eight Decades ofIndia's Communist Movement227
Ideological Choices231
Centre, States and River Waters234
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