REJUVENATING THE LEFT ?

Does the CPM Cadre have any choice between the Devil & Deep Blue Sea?
Since the demise of old guards who walked out of National Council of CPI in 1964 there is little left within the CPM for an ideological debate. Despite fall of former USSR & East European communist countries most of the discussion has been cosmetics and in particular since 2004 CPM has banded backward when it supported Congress led UPA government and its chosen Presidential candidates Pranab Mukherjee who has been a chief architect of Civil Nuclear Agreement with America and who also talks about convergence of two culture US-India thought there is hardly anything in common between two nations.
Although in 2008 CPM Congress honeymoon came to end but behind the door top leaders like Sitaram Yechuri continued with flirtation! For example, rather than critically evaluating UPS's performance over the last one year Mr Yechuri decided to provide a covert VOTE of confidence in his former ally Sonia Gandhi. Even within his class politics as Mr Yechuri puts it Manmohan Singh Montek Singh economic policies led the cournty into both inflation and recetion. I wonder on what basis he says that Manmohan Singh has been successful given his class approach and policies?
Similarly, just a couple of weeks before the Parliamentary Elections, Sitaram Yechuri in a Stephen College town hall meeting organised by Burkha Dutt of NDTV openly accepted that he wanted Mrs Sonia Gandhi to be the Prime-Minster of India in 2004. One suspects once again,if he was sending a signal that CPM - Sonia honeymoon has not yet over?
For the last two decades CPM has left with no option but either ended up siding with BJP on no confidence issue against UPA or with Congress in its anti-communal rhetoric although its own record during its 35 rule in WB has not been so good. Despite Muslims being about 28% CPM has done very little to accommodate the minority in government jobs let alone accommodating them within the party!!! CPM's Central Committee and the Politburo is already dominated by the upper caste petty bourgeois former SFI leaders (mainly JNUine rather than genuine) and a further nomination of SFI leader to Rajay Sabha goes to show CPM leadership heading towards meeting the fate of former USSR and East European communist parties. In fact, in former USSR party bureaucracy has taken over after the Party took the power but in India it has taken over even before it could see the power at the Center.
Although I haven't seen the blue print yet as to how they will rejuvenate Party, it would be wise if the these easy chair speculators like Sitaram Yechuri, Brenda Karat and Prakash Karat voluntarily sideline themselves as people have already rejected their leadership! Unless there is something emerges from the grass-root to challenge the Central Committee and Politburo no worthwhile outcome can be expected. Rather than power coming from below and response from the top this petty bourgeois JNUine leadership has justified its hobnobbing with Congress and Corporate in the name of democratic centralism. In fact, CPM has become a caucus-run social democratic party which totally relies upon the bourgeois tactics and would not be an overstatement if people perceives it as Corporate Communist Party of India. In fact, bureaucracy has occupied central place in CPM even before it could takeover the Sate Power which came in CPSU after taking over the power. Rather than getting into squabbles CPM got enter into serious debate as to mainly four issues: (i) If Communist Parties are allowed to function is there any need for democratic centralism, (ii) if Party represents the tangible consciousness of a class and its Central Committee goes wrong what could be done?, (iii) Is socialism in one country still possible, (iv) A country with a huge middle class and where classes are not as homogeneous as they were in 19th Century to what extent dictatorship of working class relevant?
Hence, differences between Sitaram Yechuri and Prakash Karat are that of semantic than real to perpetuate the status quo ante to secure their place in politburo though for nonagenarian Achhutanandan (only survivor who walked out in 1964 to form CPM) was demoted for saving the CPM face in the Assembly poll.
In my opinion unless there is an upsurge from below against the rotten and intellectually defunct leadership which could Bombard the Headquarters as Mao puts it very eloquently, there is not even a remote possibility of rejuvenating the Party.