All 26 Uses of
communism
in
The God of Small Things
- Sometimes Estha walked past Lucky Press—old Comrade K. N. M. Pillai's printing press, once the Ayemenem office of the Communist Party, where midnight study meetings were held, and pamphlets with rousing lyrics of Marxist Party songs were printed and distributed.†
Chpt 1communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- The weed that people call Communist Patcha (because it flourished in Kerala like Communism) smothered the more exotic plants.†
Chpt 1
- The weed that people call Communist Patcha (because it flourished in Kerala like Communism) smothered the more exotic plants.†
Chpt 1communism = an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- Further east, in a small country with similar landscape (jungles, rivers, rice fields, Communists), enough bombs were being dropped to cover all of it in six inches of steel.†
Chpt 2communists = people who support an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- Even Chacko had no really complete explanation for why the Communist Party was so much more successful in Kerala than it had been almost anywhere else in India, except perhaps in West Bengal.†
Chpt 2communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- The trouble with this theory was that in Kerala the Syrian Christians were, by and large, the wealthy, estate-owning (picklefactory-running), feudal lords, for whom communism represented a fate worse than death.†
Chpt 2communism = an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- Except that the high literacy level was largely because of the Communist movement.†
Chpt 2communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- The real secret was that communism crept into Kerala insidiously.†
Chpt 2communism = an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- He was an undergraduate at Delhi University during the euphoria of 1957, when the Communists won the State Assembly elections and Nehru invited them to form a government.†
Chpt 2communists = people who support an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- Chacko's hero, Comrade E. M. S. Namboodiripad, the flamboyant Brahmin high priest of Marxism in Kerala, became Chief Minister of the first ever democratically elected Communist government in the world.†
Chpt 2communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- Suddenly the Communists found themselves in the extraordinary—critics said absurd—position of having to govern a people and foment revolution simultaneously.†
Chpt 2communists = people who support an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- Chacko studied his treatise on "The Peaceful Transition to Communism" with an adolescent's obsessive diligence and an ardent fan's unquestioning approval.†
Chpt 2communism = an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- Nehru dismissed the Communist government and announced fresh elections.†
Chpt 2communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- This time as part of a coalition between what had by now become two separate parties—the Communist Party of India, and the Communist Party of India (Marxist).†
Chpt 2
- This time as part of a coalition between what had by now become two separate parties—the Communist Party of India, and the Communist Party of India (Marxist).†
Chpt 2
- This earned him the wrath of the Chinese Communist Party. They ... and accused him of "providing relief to the people and thereby blunting the People's Consciousness and diverting them from the Revolution."
Chpt 2 *
- Comrade Namboodiripad's house functioned as the hotel's dining room, where semi-suntanned tourists in bathing suits sipped tender coconut water (served in the shell), and old Communists, who now worked as fawning bearers in colorful ethnic clothes, stooped slightly behind their trays of drinks.†
Chpt 5communists = people who support an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- You were a Communist and had a shirt and a flag.†
Chpt 8communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- But Communists don't believe in ghosts," Estha said, as though they were continuing a discourse investigating solutions to the ghost problem.†
Chpt 10communists = people who support an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- Sometimes not "Are we going to become a Communist?"†
Chpt 10communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- How, long before the Communists thought of it, Reverend E. John Ipe had given his father, Kelan, title to the land on which their but now stood.†
Chpt 13communists = people who support an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- Comrade Pillai told Inspector Thomas Mathew that he was acquainted with Velutha, but omitted to mention that Velutha was a member of the Communist Party, or that Velutha had knocked on his door late the previous night, which made Comrade Pillai the last person to have seen Velutha before he disappeared.†
Chpt 13communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- He merely assured Inspector Thomas Mathew that as far as he was concerned Velutha did not have the patronage or the protection of the Communist Parry.†
Chpt 13
- Of the subsequent Communist Party siege of Paradise Pickles & Preserves, led by Ayemenem's own Crusader for Justice and Spokesman of the Oppressed.†
Chpt 17
- Comrade K. N. M. Pillai claimed that the Management had implicated the Paravan in a false police case because he was an active member of the Communist Party.†
Chpt 17
- The humbling of old Communists.†
Chpt 18communists = people who support an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society