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capitalism, be "undertaken in a decentralized fashion under
the cooperative control of the toiling people."19
Finally, it was not part of the Shramik Mukti Dar's
agenda to replace the current state with a new state
power; instead,
destroying the power of the current state and in its
place bringing in the organized network of decentralized
and ecologically balanced agro-industrial
centers and, the development of the whole society
is the all-round development of every individual
as a precondition for the people's new democratic
society, this is the revolutionary alternative. From
its very beginning, "for a principled transformation
the people's parallel power" will be established
from the "revolutionary process of rhe toilers." . ..
The power that has been known as the state will be
ended and a new communal cooperative society
will be established in this world.20
Jogin Sen Gupta, another ex-sectarian Communist,
was disgusted by parties but still committed to movements.
Through participation in various struggles during
the 19805, he found himselflearning from feminist and
indigenous perspectives, and proclaiming himself heartened
rather than depressed by the disintegration of the
iron curtain, concluded that "autocracy-whatever be its
color-stands for curbing the bottom peoples' right to
associate, assert and build up their power. So a movement
against authoritarianism-whatever its color-is building