{"id":215,"date":"2007-06-21T14:32:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-21T14:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sanjibmitra.ie\/blog\/2007\/06\/21\/whats-left-is-yours\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T18:49:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T17:49:53","slug":"whats-left-is-yours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanjibmitra.ie\/blog\/2007\/06\/21\/whats-left-is-yours\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Left is yours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today happens to be the 30<span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">th<\/span> year anniversary of one of the worlds longest running, uninterrupted <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">socio<\/span>-economic experiments:<\/p>\n<p>How to run a self-contained communist administration within the framework of a democratic government, and evolve itself by a gradual selective assimilation of capitalist intent.<\/p>\n<p>Confrontations and constraints have been many, yet India&#8217;s eastern state of West Bengal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/convergence\/ndtv\/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20070016287\">continues<\/a> this experiment by the most original methods that would probably make Comrade Lenin a touch uncomfortable. However, it can be argued that though communism is considered dead in theory, this particular Bengali flavour of it might give way to a reincarnated version that still adamantly clings on to its earlier name. Perhaps past <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">associations<\/span> pose a risk lurking here somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>So if you were red and a revolutionist at heart and suddenly found yourself eyeing that man with the briefcase, what can you start to call yourself? Would the name matter?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today happens to be the 30th year anniversary of one of the worlds longest running, uninterrupted socio-economic experiments: How to run a self-contained communist administration within the framework of a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","category-think"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanjibmitra.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanjibmitra.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanjibmitra.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanjibmitra.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanjibmitra.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sanjibmitra.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247,"href":"https:\/\/sanjibmitra.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanjibmitra.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanjibmitra.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanjibmitra.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}