Maia Ramnath - Decolonizing Anarchism.pdf - Libcom

162 I Ramnath
ideological position would have developed. Although it is
clear that Marx, Lenin, and related theorists had exerted a
compelling influence on his thinking, it's difficult to imagine
him adopting any party line uncritically, based on what
he wrote, said, and did.
In his notebook, he cites the words of We ndell
Phillips : "If there is anything that cannot bear free thought,
let it crack."s, Singh was in all likelihood engaged in building
a dialectical synthesis that while exceeding leftist orthodoxy
in its actually existing, codified fo rm, nevertheless
incorporated Marx's and Lenin's insights on economics
and organizing resistance into all the other wide-ranging
sources that his voracious mind never ceased processing. In
this sense, rather than being recuperated by Communismseeing
the light before he died-perhaps he himself might
have recuperated Communism, allowing it to develop into
another actualized form more emancipatory in its theory
and practice.