I belong to west bengal which is ruled by the the communist since 1977.If you compare the integrity of the true communist with their counterparts in congress,rjd,bjp.sp or bsp ,they are far better.The way budhadeb lead his life it becomes difficult to make out if he is the chief minister or a middleclass bengali. But the problem lies in their vision,in their outlook ,which is serious hindrance to any developmental projects. Just like BJP feels they are the sole torchbearer of patriotism ,simmilarly the communist feel that they are the true representative of the under privileged.If you compare bengal with maharashtra,gujrat.tamilnadu karnataka in economic or social parameters you will realise that they are basically theorist and their actual contribution is big zero. I have seen their crab mentality when they used to oppose computerisation in eighties and now buddhadeb is trying his level best to attract investment in IT SECTOR.The same will hold good for nucleur deal when after twenty years they will say that we have committed a historic blunder