68 SOCIAL SCIENTIST The author is therefore, correct when he says that "In India, the historical sequence of Marxist thought was reversed. In many advanced countries, Marxism emerged and grew stronger first as an intellectual force before it spread and gathered strength as a political force". In the ex-colonial and semi-feudal countries including India on the contrary, the emergence of Marxism as a political force "preceded its emergence as an intellectual force." (P. 3). Economics and Politics: A Contribution to Inner-Party Struggle My own Economics and Politics, referred to by Dr. Joshi, was a part of the political-practical activity of what he calls the "Traditional Marxists". My preface to the book had noted the context in which it was written namely, the intense debate between Congressmen and Communists, and among the latter themselves, on the implications of the policy changes brought about by the Congress through its Avadi resolution on the Socialist pattern of society. Preceding Economics and Politics, however, I had written and submitted to the National Council of the undivided Party, a note on Revisionism and Dogmatism in the CPI. Following the publication of the book too, I wrote a Note on the Programme for discussion in the Organising Committee preparing for the 7th Congress where the CPI(M) was to be born. 'that note and the critique by those members of the Organising Committee who disagreed with it and amendments to the Party Programme which I moved at the Party Congress were part of the material used in the theoretical-political-practical debate which gave birth to the CPI(M). The purpose of writing the book having been served with the inner-party discussicn that pieceded the adoption of the CPI(M) Programme in November 1964 (Seventh Congress), there was no point in merely authorizing reprint of the book, as was suggested by some friends. I was also conscious that, since it was produced as part of inner-Party discussions many of its ideas would subsequently be radically changed. But, since I adhered to the main framework, I decided to use the material for the subsequent production of two smaller volumes Indian Planning in Crisis and Crisis to Chaos. Later on, I elaborated the first part of the book for a bigger volume. History of India's Freedom Movement. These contributions to the elaboration of Marxist theory were thus designed to suit Indian conditions as they obtained two decades ago My earlier work on Gandhi could be similarly categorised. However, in this phase of the development of the "Marxist Establishment" in India—the phase in which the undivided CPI was moving towards a split to form the CPI(M) and the CPI, I was only one among several comrades who made their respective contributions to the debates which took place before and after this phase. The subsequent formation