Friend, My history and social studies teacher were better than yours. Communists in Kerala and in West Bengal were doing love and hate games with Congress from the times of Namboodripad and all the while fooling poor people, at times supporting Congress and at times fighting Congress (at leasti pretending to do so to please poor chaps); further they were responsible for the class conflicts in India setting landless against the landed, the poor against the rich; to conserve their vote bank they were interestd in all that could sustain poverty and were not interested in promoting welfare of the poor in contrast to the Chinese communists who lifted the comfort level of their people liberalising their out dated communism; Indian communists were indirectly encouraging naxalites to be anti-social and anti-national; the communists never allowed any big industry to survive in the states they ruled; but for opportunistic alliance with sundry local parties they would have benn in very poor minoruty by this time.
