POLI 474 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Proletariat, Research Question, Kharif Crop
15 Apr 2018
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West bengal: parliamentary communism and reform from above. Won the elections in 1977 and 1982 in the province of west bengal. It operates as a provincial government in a federal policy thus has constraints. Attack on the rural poverty is central to this strategy. Power is not concentrated neither in the hands of an individual or in the party. The party has 3 wings: party organization, kisan sabha (peasant wing), and the parliamentary wing. Over the years, cpm"s ideology has moderated from a revolutionary to a reformist orientation: dictatorship of the proletariat developmental and democratic socialist ideology. Thus, it emphasizes the preservation of democratic institutions and the use of the state power for facilitating development with redistribution. The thrust of the agrarian program responds to this shift: land was the only way to gain support of all the peasantry (rich and poor).
