Joe Shearer
Professional
He was talking with exceptional political ineptitude, the approach of someone who comes to ideological differences with an earthmover.He had a point. And I a counterpoint.
The CPI has never had a role to play in politics for a very long time now. It was last in prominence in the person of a former Speaker of the Lok Sabha, the one who later became Home Minister, a very successful one.
Perhaps your conversation was about the CPI(M), a completely different entity. It was probably not about the CPI, nor about the CPI(ML) or any of its hydra-headed manifestations.
This is about political identities, and the merits of the conversation is a completely different thing.
