Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s speech in Lok Sabha, just a day before the RSS-BJP juggernaut had set the date for the official deletion and eradication of the ultra-left idea of Naxalism from India, was a lesson in history, ideology, hegemony and the epitome of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s (RSS) epistemological deconstruction of the overall umbrella of Marxism.

This deconstruction of Marxism and the upending of its foundations—the economy as the ‘Base’ and Culture etc as the ‘Superstructure’—has been the ideological bedrock of the rightwing led by the RSS and the BJP.

In explaining the journey of Naxalism to its end, Shah has achieved and realized the grand ideological precept of the RSS. The best and most encaptivating parts of the Home Minister’s speech were those which dealt and grappled with ideas and ideological questions and assertions. He turned topsy-turvy the basic tenets of Marxism that fired the idea of Naxalism—he upturned Naxalism at the very basic and fundamental level of causation.

Naxalism was born not out of deprivation, but underdevelopment and fringing of societies across several states in India happened because of Naxalism.

“Naxalism did not spread because of poverty; rather, poverty spread because of Naxalism. Communist Party was not formed to oppose injustice, but to oppose our parliamentary system,” Shah said.

Shah referred to the notorious Red Corridor—it infected 12 states, including Chhattisgarh, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Bihar, Bengal, Kerala, parts of Karnataka, and 3 districts of Uttar Pradesh.

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