Vijay Prashad
LeftWord Books
378 pages, Rs. 995
Over the past twenty years, the Indian political climate has shifted decidedly in favour of the right. The old consensus on Indian socialism is threadbare, and the socialist parties are in disarray. No Free Left is a critical examination of the past of Indian communism, and an assessment of its future. A history of communism cannot be written, the Marxist theoretician Antonio Gramsci once said, without writing a “general history of a country”; Prashad delivers both.