communists . Because of the bourgeois and feudal politics and right opportunist and reformist trends the Telangana peasants could not liberate from the bourgeois and imperialist exploitation . There is no review based on clear Marxist-Leninist orientation in the communist party . Due to this lacuna , the antipeople bourgeois and feudal ruling classes are claiming the Telangana peasant armed struggle as theirs . The correct lessons from the struggle are not available to the communist party . Comrade D . V . Rao ’ s Analysis of the Struggle
“ It is clear that the Telangana peasant armed struggle has brought a revolutionary change in the rural life . A new life was formed ; that was peoples democratic life . The change was possible only through this revolution . Even after 36 years and even after spending billions of rupees , the governments headed by the Congress and other parties are unable to distribute land of feudal lords and eradicate poverty in rural areas . These changes were achieved by the revolutionary movement in a short span of one year . A new economic system was formed . A new political system was formed by establishing village governance committees . A new military system was formed to fight back the attacks by the land lords with guerilla squads that were filled with people in contrast to mercenaries of Nizam and Indian governments . The local squads taken care of their local affairs and law and order . A new cultural life emerged along with new political life . Absence of thefts , prostitution , right to the divorce for women , their participation in all activities , every one learning to read and wright , their sincere toil and showing a different attitude towards those in the enemy ’ s armed forces , those who were disarmed – that was a stage in which highest culture and morality were formed . New democratic culture took shape in the practice along with learning from books during the September 1947 to September 1948 .
This political , economic and cultural system took a definite shape during the last 3 to 4 months of this period . Before it was in a formative phase . The areas of struggle were at the level of guerilla struggle and no liberated area was formed . So there was no scope to develop this into a comprehensive system . Yet is significant that such a system was formed .
We have to understand the weaknesses of the movement . There were two different approaches about these weaknesses form the beginning . There were those who argued to withdraw the struggle after the police action and those who negated and denigrated or minimized the achievements of the 26 struggle . “ There are certain great things . We can retold them as heroic stories . But now withdraw the struggle . It could not withstand . Everything is over . Let us go back to homes ” – this trend had come out . Those who argued after the police action for the withdrawal of struggle had minimized the achievements of struggle to support their argument . It happened 35 years back .
The same leaders who argued for withdrawal are now placating the achievements as great and not mentioning the weaknesses . They are utilising the movement to validate their reformist , anti-struggle and anti-revolution opinions . It is easy to propagate anti-revolutionary ideas disguising them with praises of revolutionary movement . Anti-Marxist ideas can be propagated in the name of Marxism in these days . It is difficult to propagate them opposing Marxism because there is a positive attitude among the people and intellectuals on Marxism , revolution and revolutionary movement . They will be condemned as anti-Marxists and anti-revolution . Once the difference between anti-revolutionary ideas of then and now is recognized it is easy to understand how they are opposed to Marxism-Leninism .
Praising the achievements uncritically and ignoring the weaknesses became a usual affair now a days which in no way useful to the movement . One can avoid committing the same mistake only when the mistakes are understood properly . So it is necessary to examine the mistakes , deeply understand them and draw lessons from them . All steps have to be taken to avoid recurrence of these mistakes . Then only the revolutionary movement could progress on a proper manner .
From this angle , the mistakes committed during this period were not less in quality and quantity . We have to examine them carefully . Some of them are being mentioned here .
The main weaknesses are there in political as well as military policies . These can be seen in the implementation of these policies . The most important weakness was the lack of clarity on policy . At that time , Joshi ’ s line was replaced by Ranadive ’ s line . But there was no clear understanding on the Telangana struggle .”
Comrade D . V . Rao also wrote about the Party organization and consciousness as follows :
“ Equating general ant-Nizam spirit with the party consciousness , and lack of policy on political education were some of the important shortcoming in the party organization . Political education was woefully short . The anti-Nizam spirit and party
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