Indian communists criticize Benedict XVI on the end of Marxism
Mumbai (AsiaNews) - "The Pope's statements will not be able to keep people away from communism. We pay no attention to his words", says S. Ramachandran Pillai, member of Communist Party of India (Marxist), in response to the statements by Benedict XVI, who is currently on visit to Mexico and Cuba (24-29 March). The offending sentence dates from March 23. In his conversation with reporters aboard the papal flight, Benedict XVI in fact said: " It is clear today that Marxist ideology as it was conceived no longer responds to reality. ... In order to build a new society new models must be discovered, patiently and constructively". For Fr. Paul Thelakat, spokesman for the Syro-Malabar Synod, Pillai's statements show that "the Indian Marxists are not in touch with the reality of Cuba."
In Kozhikode
(Kerala) two days ago in view of the 20th National Congress of the Communist
Party, Pillai also stressed that "the work of the Communists is to
understand and assimilate the reality of the world. We are not against religion,
and of course the Catholic faithful who are in the party will not abandon because
of such criticism. "
"What the pope said - Fr.
Thelakat, who directs the daily Sathyadeepam (Light of Truth) told AsiaNews - can mean two things. That 'classic'
Marxism has lost all its importance and it is dead or that the Marxist model applied
in Cuba
'no longer reflects the reality of the country'. In 2010, Fidel Castro had
already said that the so-called 'model Cuba' was no longer working for the
Cubans. The pope's statements were not a criticism of the island, but comment
on the reality with which every Cuban can agree. "
The priest then remembers the second phrase of Benedict XVI, "in order to build a new society new models must be discovered, patiently and constructively." "The Pope - he says - does not refer to another globalized model of the market economy. He is not telling Cubans to return to the United States, but to seek new models for their development. His words are a lesson for the Church in India, an invitation to remember that it is not a political power, a party, but a moral reality.' "
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28/03/2012
