The Narrative Crisis of the Communist Movement in Kerala

It can be safely said that the Communist Movement in Kerala is bereaved of a genuine and authentic form of narration of its own. In case it owns one that it owes  to the camp of its enemies; real and imagined. today, its official ideologues and the sympathetic-emotional followers of the Movement say that there was a past in which the leaders and followers of the Movement alike made selfless sacrifices for the common-good of the society, well-being of the Proletarians and finally, for the healthy development of the Movement. Here the thread of the narrative is much obvious; that they posit a "golden age or "past" of the Movement. here the crisis is two fold; in the first place, the form of narration itself is not of Communist and the second one is that the "Meaning" of the narrative is unmapped in the annals of history. let's expand the first one,namely, the form of narration, a movement that is pledged to the Teleological-Linear growth of history resorting to the reminding of a Golden Age or Past is absurd. if it is from capitalists, religious men and women or even from communal fascists, it is quite acceptable since their narrative pantheon always leaves room for regressions, retrogressions and even aberrations. how it becomes possible for a Telos oriented Movement to indulge in such recounting of a golden Past? on the second point, it is very easy to find that the message conveyed by this kind of narration always contradicts the historical facts archived by our other political, social and cultural histories. for example, the movies belonging to the era of multi-stardom(mostly played by Sukumaran either as a boss or as a backbiting leader and by Mammootty, as the Proletarian hero) always portrayed the Communist Movement as betraying its own fundamental class. T.P. Rajeevan in Paleri Manickyam figures out that the Movement, even in its point of inception, has made nexus with its class antagonists; a point that has cleverly been hijacked by Ranjith in the film version of the novel. to cite an instance from political history, the Naxalites have critiqued  the Movement for its Holy alliance with the black marketers, liquor barons and money lenders.