{"id":3700,"date":"2015-10-29T20:07:51","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T14:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=3908"},"modified":"2015-10-29T20:07:51","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T14:37:51","slug":"the-business-of-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/the-business-of-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"The Business of Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"

An article by TK Devasia in Scroll<\/a> refers to the Communist Party of India (Marxist) as “the largest business house” in Kerala. We are told:<\/p>\n

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If the land in possession of the party and its feeder organizations is taken into consideration, the CPI(M) is the single largest owner of land in the land-scarce state.  Former Union Finance Minister P Chidamabaram estimated the asset of the CPI(M) in Kerala at Rs 4000 crores a few years ago. He had accused the working class party of driving away investors and using the opportunity to accumulate assets in the state.<\/p>\n

The party that views capitalists as class enemies justifies the investments, saying that the workers had created them in order to strengthen the party’s fight against capitalists and monopolies.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The workers, indeed! Look, I don’t want to single out the CPI(M): every political party in this country is in the business of turning power into money, and then using the money to hold on to or gain more power. But it’s especially ironic in the case of the communists. Maybe they should change that parenthetical ‘M’ into ‘Money’ instead of ‘Marxist’?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An article by TK Devasia in Scroll<\/a> refers to the Communist Party of India (Marxist) as “the largest business house” in Kerala. We are told:<\/p>\n

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If the land in possession of the party and its feeder organizations is taken into consideration, the CPI(M) is the single largest owner of land in the land-scarce state.  Former Union Finance Minister P Chidamabaram estimated the asset of the CPI(M) in Kerala at Rs 4000 crores a few years ago. He had accused the working class party of driving away investors and using the opportunity to accumulate assets in the state.<\/p>\n

The party that views capitalists as class enemies justifies the investments, saying that the workers had created them in order to strengthen the party’s fight against capitalists and monopolies.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The workers, indeed! Look, I don’t want to single out the CPI(M): every political party in this country is in the business of turning power into money, and then using the money to hold on to or gain more power. But it’s especially ironic in the case of the communists. Maybe they should change that parenthetical ‘M’ into ‘Money’ instead of ‘Marxist’?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15,4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nThe Business of Politics - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/the-business-of-politics\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Business of Politics - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"An article by TK Devasia in Scroll refers to the Communist Party of India (Marxist) as “the largest business house” in Kerala. 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