Communist
10th April 2009, 19:15
I hope this is in the right section. From the Marxist-Leninist list.
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It is my sad duty to inform comrades that the veteran Indian Communist Revolutionary MONI GUHA died on the morning of 7th April 2009 in the city of Kolkata. The word 'Veteran' really has meaning in this instance as this comrade was active in the revolutionary movement for nearly eighty years. It is a remarkable testimony to his personal and political qualities that he was held in high esteem even by his critics. Over the decades he came into contact with and crossed swords with many of the titans of the communist movement such as M.N. Roy, B.T. Ranadive and Charu Majumdar. He was a living legend in the communist movement for spearheading in India the struggle against the 20th Congress of the CPSU within weeks of the event. He was the only leading Indian Marxist Leninist to oppose the ?Three Worlds? Theory? in 1977 and who then? went on to point out the divergences between Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin and the ideas of Mao Zedong.It has been aprivilege for the associates of the journal Revolutionary Democracy to have worked with him in the second series of ?Proletarian Path? and to have been in living contact with him in subsequent years despite our collisions on political questions.
The journal Revolutionary Democracy shall be publishing an Obituary
of Comrade Moni Guha in the near future.
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It is my sad duty to inform comrades that the veteran Indian Communist Revolutionary MONI GUHA died on the morning of 7th April 2009 in the city of Kolkata. The word 'Veteran' really has meaning in this instance as this comrade was active in the revolutionary movement for nearly eighty years. It is a remarkable testimony to his personal and political qualities that he was held in high esteem even by his critics. Over the decades he came into contact with and crossed swords with many of the titans of the communist movement such as M.N. Roy, B.T. Ranadive and Charu Majumdar. He was a living legend in the communist movement for spearheading in India the struggle against the 20th Congress of the CPSU within weeks of the event. He was the only leading Indian Marxist Leninist to oppose the ?Three Worlds? Theory? in 1977 and who then? went on to point out the divergences between Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin and the ideas of Mao Zedong.It has been aprivilege for the associates of the journal Revolutionary Democracy to have worked with him in the second series of ?Proletarian Path? and to have been in living contact with him in subsequent years despite our collisions on political questions.
The journal Revolutionary Democracy shall be publishing an Obituary
of Comrade Moni Guha in the near future.