On 2/15/21 9:38 AM, Louis Proyect wrote:
From Jairus Banaji on FB:I got to know K. Damodaran (1912–1976) some time in 1974 when he was busy setting up the P.C.Joshi Archive in a basement of the old campus of JNU in Delhi. We would pore through the latest available catalogue of New Left Books and decide which titles to order from London. Damodaran was a Marxist of great humility who hardly ever spoke about himself or his past, so I had no real idea then how pivotal he had been to building the Communist movement in Kerala. Uniquely for someone who had been so important in the (united) Communist Party of India, by the late 1960s Damodaran had become profoundly critical of Stalinism and the legacies it encumbered the party in India with. Here are some interesting excerpts from the fascinating interview which Tariq Ali conducted with him in 1975 (which was then published in New Left Review, Sept.-Oct. 1975):
I am attaching the full interview Tariq Ali did with K. Damodaran. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#6412): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/6412 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/80654186/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
K. Damodaran, Memoir of an Indian Communist, NLR I 93, September October 1975.pdf
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