CPI-M under fire for refraining from labeling Modi regime ‘Neo-Fascist’

New Delhi: Communist Party of India-Marxist leadership is under fire from other major Left parties for an unusual explanation to its Draft Political Resolution for the 24th Party Congress in April, deviating from its position of calling the Narendra Modi government or the Indian State “fascist or neo-fascist”.

According to Kashmir Media Service, this is different from the positions of other major Left parties – CPI, which calls the Modi dispensation a “fascist government”, and the CPI(ML)L, which says that “an Indian fascism has been put in place”. The latest articulation has triggered further debate in the Leftis parties. These Leftist parties view the apparent shift in CPI-M’s ideology after the death of party General Secretary Sitaram Yechury in last September. He categorically called the BJP-RSS “fascistic”.

The CPI-M said the Political Resolution is talking about the danger of Hindutva corporate authoritarianism going towards neo-fascism if the BJP-RSS is not fought back and halted. However, the draft resolution has described the BJP as the political front of the “fascistic RSS”.

The CPI-M letter said the draft resolution has highlighted that the political set-up under the BJP-RSS is displaying “neo-fascist characteristics”. The word ‘characteristics’ means features or trends, falling short of describing it as neo-fascistic government.

In the resolutions adopted in the previous two conferences when Yechury was General Secretary, the CPI-M had spoken about authoritarian and communal attacks exhibiting “emerging fascistic trends” (2018) and the Modi government carrying out “fascistic agenda of the RSS” (2022).

However, the letter to state units said, the CPI-M has “for the first time used” the term “neo-fascist” in its resolution while explaining the national political situation. It went on to differentiate fascism as classical fascism, which developed during imperialism, and neo-fascism developed during neoliberalism.

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