This book traces the Indian Left's engagement with the
international communist debates of the 1960s and 1970s, shedding
new light on the fault lines within the Left as well as on its
international solidarities. Lajpat Rai argued for rethinking
established leftist positions, seeking inspiration in experiment
and developing creative approaches for the sustainability of
socialist ideas and ideals. The contemporary relevance of these
debates is significant as the Left remains without a sharp response
to the rise of neoliberalism and right-wing populism in India, and
a failure of the Left to recognize the challenges emanating from a
strongly integrated and organized finance capital on the one hand
and the increasingly self-aware identity politics on the other.
Democratic opposition rather than a bureaucratic thinking needs to
be the backbone of any meaningful Left struggle. Lajpat Rai's
passionate writing gives expression to the spirit and intensity of
political debates at the time and the role of the Left
intelligentsia in comprehending, from a committed socialist angle,
the shifting paradigms of an unstable world to help bring about
progressive change.
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