{"id":5174,"date":"2025-08-23T12:44:27","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T07:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/senkanal.com\/?p=5174"},"modified":"2026-03-11T06:35:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T01:05:57","slug":"how-mr-maruthaiyan-confining-anti-fascist-struggle-within-ruling-class-boundaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/senkanal.com\/index.php\/en\/2025\/08\/23\/how-mr-maruthaiyan-confining-anti-fascist-struggle-within-ruling-class-boundaries\/","title":{"rendered":"How Mr Maruthaiyan confining anti-fascist struggle within ruling class boundaries"},"content":{"rendered":"

Note<\/strong>: The advancement of RSS-BJP fascist forces all over the country causes so much confusion among almost all the M-L groups in our country, particularly on the question of electoral participation and boycott. Instead of treating this question in Marxist perspective, Marxist-Leninist (M-L) groups are slipped into the position – electoral boycott cannot be and should not be the form of struggle of our present time. If we employ boycott, according to them, that would prove advantageous to the fascist forces. Although the opposition INDIA bloc has its defects, we must support them, any attempts to weaken the INDIA bloc would pave the way to rapid fascist advancement. This is the predominant trend among M-L groups in our country. Even though some groups are stating and practicing this position genuinely, many of them are stating this merely to screen their nakedness, to obscure their shameless, utter surrender to the ruling class and to deceive the people. Since Mr Maruthaiyan, who renounced Marxism completely and is backing the ruling DMK party shamelessly, is the typical example of the latter, dwelling on his ideas would be instructive for us to genuinely advance the anti-fascist struggle.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a quick introduction for those who unfamiliar with our struggle against his revisionism. Maruthaiyan, renegaded Marxism and ran away from our organisation in early 2020s. Now he has turned into a strategist for Tamil Nadu\u2019s ruling DMK party. At first, in 2020s, immediately after ran away from Marxism, he still pretended as a Marxist and advocated for participation tactics in order to \u2018prevent\u2019 the further advancement of fascism.<\/p>\n

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On March 9, 2021 (i.e. just before the assembly elections), through an article, he proclaimed \u201cElections also can be a sphere to fight fascism, let us vote for the DMK alliance.\u201d[1]<\/a>  Like many other Indian renegades\u2019, he too, in a distortional manner, cited Lenin\u2019s Left Wing Communism to attack and ridicule the boycott notion as \u201cdogma.\u201d \u201cOf course, we cannot defeat the Brahmanical fascism only by elections, even the electoral parties\u2019 also admitted this truth\u201d he said. In that article and several other following interviews, he argued: \u201cIn the four pillars of Indian democracy, i.e. legislature, judiciary, bureaucracy and media, all the three were already taken over by the fascist forces. We only have the legislature and therefore we must put all our efforts to prevent the fascist-takeover of that institution. The DMK is the only viable alternative at this (during 2021 assembly elections) time. The anti-BJP parties\u2019 electoral victory can be a barrier to the fascist advancement and we could get a \u201cbreathing space\u201d to consolidate the masses from below against fascism.\u201d Seems prudent, right? Yes! He brilliantly pretended to treat the participation question in a prudent and Marxist manner, as if he was in favour of the notion that fascism can be defeated only beyond the electoral sphere, only the people can lead that struggle etc.<\/p>\n

At first, he had to pretend as a Marxist to confuse our cadres and liquidate the party as much as possible. After successful completion of this mission, he striped the veils and showed his real face. Exactly after two years, in May 2023, he ridiculed the notion of the proletariat leadership of the anti-fascist struggle as a \u201cclownish notion\u201d and whoever advocates that notion as \u201cclowns.\u201d<\/p>\n

All these were explained and exposed long ago and in minute details in our pamphlet.[2]<\/a> Beyond exposing Maruthaiyan\u2019s absurd and treacherous arguments, this pamphlet explained why the proletariat and the revolutionary people alone can and must take the leadership of the anti-fascist struggle. Moreover, it classified the INDIA bloc apt to vacillate and come to terms with fascism and explained what should be our attitude towards them. In order for the proletariat to take the leadership in this struggle and to carry on this struggle to the extent of real victory over fascism, we must energetically expose the vacillation, inconsistency and treachery of INDIA bloc as widely as possible instead of falling into the bogey, i.e., \u2018any attempts to expose or weaken INDIA bloc would pave the way to fascist advancement\u2019.<\/p>\n

We are not romanticizing boycott, of course boycott and participation both can be a tactic in the anti-fascist movement, but unprincipled aversion and ridiculing the boycott tactic and spreading na\u00efve optimism to the opposition parties and constitutional institutions needs to be exposed.<\/p>\n

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\u201cEvents have forced even those Social-Democrats \u2026. actually to go over, or begin to go over, to their opponents\u2019 side.\u201d(LCW 9, p.g.17), Lenin wrote in 1905, exposing the opportunistic new-Iskra (Menshevik) group. This is exactly what\u2019s happening right now in our country, except the fact that the Mensheviks were unconscious about their decision at that time, but our renegade Mr Maruthaiyan has consciously surrendered to the ruling class. Yes! Mr Maruthaiyan who vehemently opposed and ridiculed electoral boycott and advocated that all the M-L groups should actively support the INDIA bloc in elections, has now begin to speak about electoral boycott.<\/p>\n

Why is this so? What happened to his famous \u201cbreathing space\u201d theory? The ruling BJP party, through its agent Election Commission, has thrown its \u201cBramhasthra\u201d in the name of SIR to disenfranchise the anti-BJP voters, particularly Muslims and included fake voters in electoral rolls in order to conspiratorially deter the INDIA bloc\u2019s electoral victory. Amid this SIR row, Rahul Gandhi \u2018drops an atom bomb\u2019 of \u201cvote theft\u201d allegations during 2019, 2024 general elections and as well as some other assembly elections. Meanwhile, two important bourgeois intellectuals, a retired IAS Avay Shukla and a well-known journalist and author Debashish Roy Chowdhry, came up with the idea of \u201cnation-wide electoral boycott.\u201d \u2018By participating in the rigged and fixed election\u2019 they said \u2018you (the INDIA bloc) are not only legitimising the whole electoral process but also the winning regime. Therefore, the fraudulence of electoral process can be exposed only through boycott.\u2019[3]<\/a> Not only them, even the RJD and Congress parties have verbally admitted that \u201call options are open\u201d while commenting on the question of boycott in Bihar elections.<\/p>\n

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After all these i.e. after the bourgeois intellectuals and parties, our \u2018left-wing activist\u2019 Maruthaiyan opened his mouth and advices the INDIA bloc to boycott the Bihar election. Here\u2019s what he said:<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat is to be done in such a situation? [i.e., when the BJP illegally, deliberately and conspiratorially attempting to deter the INDIA bloc\u2019s electoral victory] \u2026 Tejasvi Yadav of RJD and Congress party both have already talked about the possibility of electoral boycott in Bihar. \u2026 Electoral democracy of our country now is almost vanished. [note, without openly discarding his \u201cbreathing space\u201d theory, Maruthaiyan \u2018admitting\u2019 this fact long after Rahul Gandhi\u2019s remarks \u201cIndian election system is dead\u201d] \u2026 Rahul Gandhi has asked the EC to release the digital data and CCTV footages. I would say if the demands are not met, then the opposition parties must proclaim electoral boycott in Bihar. Electoral democracy in India is dead. Just like in Latin American countries and Philippines, where people took to the street by realising the fact that there is no electoral democracy in their countries, the opposition parties must boycott the election altogether. Of course, we do not bother about the fact that some one or two insignificant parties may participate. This is a separate topic. I am not advocating in favour of electoral boycott in all other states, but only in Bihar. By participating in the election you (INDIA bloc) are actually giving a merit certificate to the Election Commission which accompanied with the BJP in the electoral process. Through a boycott a greater enlightenment will be brought to the Indian people. Through a boycott this notion \u2013there is no democracy in India, the result of the 2024 general elections is a stolen on, would spread not only throughout the country but also throughout the world. \u2026 As I already said [after the general elections] in 2024, Sheik Hasina had conducted fraudulent elections in Bangladesh for almost 15 years. \u2026 But what happened there after 15 years? A great riot erupted there. As a result of that riot Sheik Hasina flew from her own country to India. \u2026 We do not desire such a riot here [in India] as well. \u2026 Therefore, if the above mentioned Rahul Gandhi\u2019s demands are not met, INDIA bloc must proclaim electoral boycott in Bihar. \u2026.\u201d[4]<\/a><\/p>\n

Is that all? Yes, that is all. If you notice, our \u2018left-wing\u2019 activist Mr Maruthaiyan speaks in a bureaucratic language, calling 2024 \u201cpeople uprising\u201d against dictator Sheik Hasina as a \u201criot\u201d and harbouring a bureaucratic desire \u201cwe do not desire such a riot here as well\u201d! Just listen how a former bureaucrat, Avay Shukla, desires this: \u201cCountry-wide boycotts may lead to civil unrest \u2014 which is not necessarily a bad thing, as Jayaprakash Narayan’s Sampurna Kranti movement against Mrs Gandhi had shown. It finally led to her being ousted from power. A boycott could be a curtain raiser to something similar<\/em>.\u201d Avay Shukla says country-wide civil unrest, as a result of boycott, is a good thing, but our renegade Maruthaiyan says that it is \u201cundesirable.\u201d Yes! A bureaucrat speaks in a \u2018left-wing\u2019 activist\u2019s language but a \u2018left-wing\u2019 activist speaks in a bureaucrat\u2019s language, what an irony is this, isn\u2019t it!<\/p>\n

This is neither hair-splitting criticism nor playing with words, since an anti-fascist struggle will and must end up with an armed civil war between the fascist and anti-fascist forces, since the \u201cmovement from below against fascism\u201d will inevitably and necessarily end up with \u201cpeople uprising\u201d or \u201cnation-wide civil unrest\u201d as Avay Shukla says, since the very meaning of \u201cdefeating fascism beyond the electoral sphere\u201d is \u201csuch an armed uprising\u201d, whoever calls such an \u201cuprising\u201d as \u201criot\u201d and \u201cundesirable\u201d is, needless to say, betraying the cause of anti-fascist struggle in the interest of  the ruling class. Once again we may thank him for revealing his real face!<\/p>\n

Let us continue. “By participating in the election you (INDIA bloc) are actually giving a merit certificate to the Election Commission which accompanied with the BJP in the electoral process. Through a boycott grater enlightenment will be brought to the Indian people. Through a boycott this notion -there is no democracy in India, the result of the 2024 general elections is a stolen one- would spread not only throughout the country but also throughout the world.\u201d These words were borrowed from Avay Shukla and Debashish Chowdhry but Maruthaiyan has not even mentioned their names, why? Is it because of the lack of intellectual honesty? No. Before this interview we exposed their arguments are against Maruthaiyan\u2019s famous \u201cbreathing space\u201d theory and opposition parties as \u201cbarrier theory.\u201d[5]<\/a><\/p>\n

When appraising the opposition INDIA bloc the bourgeois intellectuals are far ahead than Mr Maruthaiyan. Listen to Avay Shukla\u2019s words on INDIA bloc, \u201cThe Opposition has failed, thanks to its own ineptitude, avarice, lust for power and out-size egos, and the abject surrender of all our constitutional institutions, including the courts. The Opposition, therefore, is no longer a player in this game-it can at best now be a coach.\u201d Similar observation by Parakala Prabhakar\u2019s, before 2024 general election results: \u201cIndia may have to brace up for tumultuous weeks following the counting day. Opposition political parties seem ill-prepared to ensure that the will of the people is faithfully reflected in the voting machines.\u201d Compare these appraisals on INDIA bloc \u201cfailed, ineptitude, avarice, lust for power, abject surrender of all our institutions, no longer a player in this game, ill-prepared\u201d with those of Mr Maruthaiyan\u2019s \u201ccan be a barrier for fascism\u201d \u201ca viable alternative\u201d \u201cwe could get a breathing space\u201d etc. Isn\u2019t it clear that how carefully he defends the INDIA bloc\u2019s inconsistency and treachery instead of exposing it! Isn\u2019t it clear that he is spreading na\u00efve optimism about them!<\/p>\n

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The above mentioned bourgeois intellectuals not only exposed the INDIA bloc\u2019s limitedness and inconsistency in the anti-fascist struggle, but more importantly place their hope upon the people, just listen: \u201cIn the event,<\/em> [i.e. if the RSS-BJP unleashed riots in case of its electoral defeat] it is the civil society that will have to roll up its sleeves and be prepared to rescue our democracy and prevent the current regime from stealing this election\u201d,<\/em> Parakala Prabhakar. \u201cThe actual players have to be the citizens of India, whose right to select a government of their choice is being stolen. They must be persuaded to boycott the elections too; \u2026 \u201cAs Debasish says: when your house is burgled, you don’t write a letter to the burglar, you go to the police! And the police here are the people of India- We The People. It is time to turn to them\u201d,<\/em> Avay Shukla. When we argued that the anti-fascist struggle can and must be led by the proletariat and the revolutionary people alone, Maruthaiyan ridiculed that notion as \u201cclownish one\u201d and ridiculed us as \u201cclown.\u201d It would not be a surprise that if he classified these bourgeois intellectuals also as \u201cclowns\u201d!<\/p>\n

Listen his meticulous phrasing: \u201cI am not advocating in favour of electoral boycott in all other states, but only in Bihar. \u2026 If the above mentioned Rahul Gandhi\u2019s demands are not met, INDIA bloc must proclaim electoral boycott in Bihar.\u201d While Mr Avay Shukla advocationg for a nation-wide active boycott, our renegade Maruthaiyan advices for a boycott only in Bihar and that too only if Rahul Gandhi\u2019s demands were not met. Needless to say, even in this regard Maruthaiyan not only lags far behind the bourgeois intellectuals, but also deliberately pulling the anti-fascist struggle back instead of pushing it forward. Why did he not even verbally advocate for a nation-wide boycott? He may be afraid that even a verbal advocacy for a nation-wide boycott, including Tamil Nadu, would cause antagonism with his fellow strategists of DMK.<\/p>\n

So, it is too obvious to require proof that Mr Maruthaiyan is striving to keep the anti-fascist struggle within the boundaries and interest of the ruling class while shamelessly pretending as a revolutionary!<\/p>\n

Let Mr Maruthaiyan howl! To our comrades and readers we say, just like in Bangladesh here too such an uprising will definitely be erupt, the fascists will definitely encounter their real enemies, i.e. the proletariat and revolutionary people, in the street. But, here, unlike in Bangladesh, we must put all our efforts to place the proletarian imprint on that uprising, for this must put all our efforts to \u201cbuild a movement from below\u201d \u201cto propagate that fascism can be defeated only in the streets and only by an armed civil war\u201d from now itself. We must prepare the people by elevating their consciousness to the level of the proletarian party instead of depriving the proletarian party\u2019s consciousness to the level of petty bourgeois philistinism!<\/p>\n

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[1]<\/a> See the article, https:\/\/idaiveli.wordpress.com\/2021\/03\/09\/elections-also-can-be-a-platform-to-fight-fascism-lets-vote-for-the-dmk-alliance<\/span><\/p>\n

[2]<\/a> See our pamphlet, \u201cWant to fight fascism? then surrender to the DMK and Congress\u201d \u2013 Preaching Renegade Maruthaiyan<\/em>, July 2023 (in Tamil) <\/span><\/p>\n

[3]<\/a> See the article, Published by the Congress party\u2019s daily National Herald, The casino is rigged; long live the casino! – by Avay Shukla https:\/\/www.nationalheraldindia.com\/opinion\/bihar-sir-the-casino-is-rigged-long-live-the-casino<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

[4]<\/a> See his recent interview, from 45 minutes onwards, LoP Rahul Gandhi’s Atom Bomb on Election commission India – Maruthaiyan exposes Modi& ECI Vote Theft https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QSgtLr5wosc<\/span><\/p>\n

[5]<\/a> See our video (in Tamil), https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qdG8YFo3TG4&t=22s<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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