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bound to further break down the barriers created by the centuries-old caste organization, the disabilities inherited from that organization will not die a natural death. Heavy blows should be directed against every manifestation of caste inequality and the disabilities arising therefrom. So far as Marxist-Leninists are concerned, the major factor is the developing class struggle, a struggle which is to be directed along the lines laid down by the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in its programme in the following words:
The present Indian society is a peculiar combination of monopoly capitalist domination with the caste, communal and tribal institutions. It has thus fallen to the lot of the working class and its Party to unite all the progressive forces interested in destroying the precapitalist society and to so consolidate the revolutionary forces within it as to facilitate the most rapid completion of the democratic revolution and preparation of the ground for transition to socialism. E M S NAMBOODIRIPAD
1 Social Scientist 46, May 1976, pp 3-28.
2 /bid., p8. 8 Ibid., p 13.