The academic who gave ideological credence to VS' inner-party struggle
But the communist leader didn't stop there, and continued his fight against what is termed as the 'right deviation' in the party. It was Vijayan who lent an ideological dimension to the struggle and prevented the fight from stooping to the level of mere rivalry for power.
'Communists hold conferences not to listen to eulogies, but to sharpen their weapons and to open eyes with ideological debates,' wrote Vijayan in the Mathrubhumi article, which the party found very embarrassing. 'It is not the communists alone but the mankind as a whole who will be the losers if the party takes a right turn…
The left-secular forces in Kerala wish that CPM, which has a large mass support, does not lose its character,' it added. Like many others, Vijayan also thought that VS was fighting the battle to preserve the real communist trait of the CPM. A die-hard Freudian, Vijayan's journey to CPM started with his talk on 'Marx and Freud' at Government Girl's High School in Thalassery in 1985. Till then, Vijayan was confined to psychoanalytical studies that provided deep insights into the worlds of writers including Kumaran Asan, Vyloppilli, Basheer and Changampuzha.
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