Letter to BS: Kerala has shown acumen and toil to tackle coronavirus

It can only thank its Communist roots that kept the common man as its core concern

There is much to be said about Communism as a tenet and policy tool. The Stalinst version saw Russia, over time, slide into oligarchy. In contrast, the Maoism of China took to the regimentation of the proletariat, for socialistic ends. Covid-19 illustrates the extremes of both the negative and positive aspects of the China model — the inbuilt credo of managing information that suppressed the scale of the outbreak and then the vigorous policy implementation that laid foundation to acquiring the humongous capacity to mass produce anything at will with extraordinary speed to cater to markets on global scale.

The Red