SOCIALISM AND THE RE-MAKING OF MAN 5 This ugly phenomenon must be rectified in spite of deterioration having gone such lengths that there is no dearth even of communists admiring the global consequences of the repudiation of Marxism-Leninism. Sanitised, as it were, by what someone once described as 'the dreary drip of democratic drivel', their idea seems to be that 'there is no alternative' to the restoration of the detested thraldom of Capital—'TINA being the cry which the U,S. Professor R.M. Sweezy has denounced so much more strongly than communist parties almost all over the place. This disastrous disavowal of Stalin's long-unheeded warning about intensification of class struggle with the advance of socialism and this stupid disregard of Mao's perennially precious instruction: TSTever forget the class struggle', must be^hed or not only the struggle for socialism but a credibly human society would be soon a lost cause. The price will have to be paid for deterioration, not only in the former 'socialist* countries but in the entire movement that cannot plead having been unaware when its integrity was being violated over the years, stealthily but badly enough. Allergy towards ideology, erosion, even repudiation of proletarian internationalism, growing illiteracy in Marxism in the leading ranks, indifference towards revolutionary ethics, minimisation of the strength and guile of the class enemy, growing contentment with lollipops from 'democracy's electoral confectionery', inability to sense and to repair breaches in the link with ever-suffering masses, etc. represent the cumulative causation of the debacle whose foul shadow hovers heavy over our good earth. History does nothing; it has no obligation to help our wish-fulfilment; it is man, proud man who has to act and shape his destiny. Our moral-political stagnation, our acquiescence in wrong-doing, our forgetfulness that we have to change ourselves before we can change the world—all this and more has led to the crisis that plagues civilization. A typical academic, with somehow a radical reputation, Fred Halliday who teaches in London rejoiced in a Mainstream (Delhi) article (Jan. 8, 1994) that 'communist states had been returned, chastened and re-subjugated, like escaped labourers to their place in the international capitalist hierarchy'. For good measure he gloated that 'the historic importance of 1989' was that 'the period that began with the French Revolution in 1789' had ended! How like Margaret Thatcher's callow boast in Paris at the 200th anniversary (July 14, 1989) that Magna Carta and all that were a lot more vital to humanity than the French Revolution—a boast that the then President Mitterand, his proud chin visibly receding, had to stomach! Shades of Charles James Fox in the House of Commons over 200 years ago hailing the Fall of the Bastille: 'How much the greatest even in the history of the world and how much the best!' However, Great October (1917) and