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Thrissur: The Indian Communist parties must focus on building their movement on the basis of Indian social context and traditions, said C K Saji Narayanan, national president of the Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS) at a press meet held here on Thursday. He questioned the views expressed by Sitaram Yechury and Prakash Karat during their talks at EMS Smriti, organized in memory of E M S Namboodiripad, in Thrissur recently. "The argument that the October Revolution changed the world has been proved wrong. Perestroika and glasnost (restructuring and openness) brought about by Mikhail Gorbachev before the 90s proved that there was wide-spread poverty in the USSR. In Poland, people had to go on strike for food. The fall of the Berlin Wall bared the poverty that prevailed in East Germany," he said. In which Communist country did democracy and secularism prevail, he asked. The Indian communist party made several grave mistakes, especially in 1942 and 1962. The party must correct itself and focus on Indianness. In Russia, Lenin gave shape to Russian Communism as Mao gave shape to Chinese Communism and Ho Chi Minh to Vietnamese Communism. In India alone, communist parties failed to create Indian Communism, he said. Talking at the press conference, B Gopalakrishnan, BJP state secretary said the Communist parties were haunted by 'inferiority complex' about their ideologies. The Communist leaders were selling a pipe dream by promising to bring about Socialism in India, he said. tnn

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