A TOOL WITH WHICH TO BREAK THE LEFT:

India's Gandhi backs nuclear deal, left to revisit (Y.P. Rajesh, 8/14/07, Reuters)

The powerful head of India's ruling Congress party stood firm behind a controversial nuclear deal with the United States on Tuesday as fresh efforts were launched to convince communist allies who have rejected it.

Sonia Gandhi, the Italian-born chief of the party, called opposition to the deal "sloganeering", a day after some allies and opposition parties shouted down the prime minister's statement defending it in parliament. [...]

Analysts said opponents of the deal were letting their political ideologies overtake national interest.

"If Marxists are not to lose any more ground in a country that's turning increasingly assertive and confident, they need to invent a politics that goes beyond old-fashioned whingeing," the Times of India said in an editorial on Tuesday.

Once you subtract the whingeing what's left of Marxism?

Posted by Orrin Judd at August 14, 2007 6:44 AM