-Rajesh Tyagi/ 6.10.2011
The process of ‘empiricisation’ is at the helm of the ‘Indian left in decline’, this is what Prabhat argues in his article published in recent issue of Economic and Political Weekly (EPW), and definitely rightly so. There is no doubt that the whole politics of so called ‘Indian left’ germinating from the CPI, has been guided by empiricist (pragmatic) responses to the environment around, obviously an environment under domination of bourgeois.
The article however fails to bring the issue in its correct political and historical context. Devoid of this actual context, the whole debate would lose its meaning and would again end up in an empiricist response to the problem, which rather demands a far deeper analysis.
