In 2015, the late Sitaram Yechury wrote in The Marxist: “We [communists] have, for many decades, been repeating the Leninist dictum that the ‘concrete analysis of concrete conditions is the living essence of dialectics’… An incorrect estimation of the concrete conditions, naturally, will lead to an erroneous political line and consequent tactical line.” The CPI(M)’s current political nadir — in fact, the seemingly interminable decline of all of India’s communist parties — is evidence, among other things, of a prolonged “incorrect estimation”. With the defeat of the Pinarayi Vijayan-led LDF........

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