CASTES AND CLASSES 25 Caste struggle", have failed in India; the only ideology which has proved its capacity to stand up to the ruling classes, can find reasonable lasting solutions for India's problems, is Marxism-Leninism. It is just because we of the Communist movement have been trying to apply this -ideology to the specific conditions of India that the united Communist movement till 1964 and the CPI(M) since then have won modest victories in the political field. The attacks launched against the Communist movement ( as Rajasekhaia Shetty has launched) would only help those who want to save the ruling classes out of the crisis that is overtaking them. 1 Social Scientist, Vol 6, No 4, November 1977. 2 Economic and Political Weekly, 2^ January 1981. 3 Ibid, 28 March 1981. 4 E M S Nambood'ripad, Kerala Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, Calcutta, Nat'onal Book Agency, 1967, p 47. .'> Ibid, p 48. G Communist Party of India (Marxist), Programme, 1964. (With amendment by 9th Congress in Madurai June 27 to July 2, 1972), p 33. Emphasis added.