Left, can it return ?

.Post-independence, the Left came on aboard,  to run state governments. But quirks of its ideology saw development playing second fiddle to the mythical superiority of Red ideology.  While it applied its mind with success to cause of the tiller,it later led the industrial worker astray to the point of abandoning them.  Setting  up  modern Education systems ,new era Industries as fountainheads of job creation  and being sensitive to  good and effective Administration, all succumbed to the unbending ideology and  armchair dictats.The greatest weakness of communists across the globe and across time,has been the refusal to admit to their mistakes. An all inclusive socio-political dispensation does require a  Left bias but in today's global economy, growth and development are sustained by as much of a  swing to the Right. In seceding from the UPA on the US nuclear deal,the Left hastened its political phasing out ,duly enabling  fledgling liberal set ups as the AAP to fill its place, perhaps permanently .Lack of political pragmatism has compelled Left to lose hold, gradually in some countries and dramatically in others.

 Pub -Indian Express; Jan 20