Left-A bonsai now ?

An all inclusive socio-political dispensation requires a definitive Left leaning,but in today's global economy ,growth and development are sustained by as much of a  swing to the Right .The CPI(M)-led West Bengal experiment in its later phase far from being a weapon of class struggle,  degenerated into a class collaborationist dispensation and an instrument for crushing people’s resistance to pro-corporate policies. While it became increasingly indifferent to its initial promise of providing the masses with urgent relief, in the era of  globalisation it went overboard in granting competitive favours to corporate investors in the name of attracting more investment to the state. Karat &Co as the 'Old Boys of the JNU' in the CPI-M have managed to undo what had taken decades under comrades Basu ,Surjit and others to build.hat the Left could manage three decades of rule in Bengal only on inclusiveness and no growth, will remain a political enigma.In the process it has been reduced to a political bonsai  and may well stay that way for a long while.