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Hardial Bains

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Canadian communist leader (1939–1997)
Hardial Bains
Bains in 1979
First Secretary of theCommunist Party of Canada (Marxist–Leninist)
In office
1970–1997
Succeeded bySandra Smith
Personal details
Born(1939-08-15)15 August 1939
Chak 6,Punjab,British India
Died24 August 1997(1997-08-24) (aged 58)
Hull,Quebec,Canada
Political partyCommunist Party of Canada (Marxist–Leninist)
Other political
affiliations
Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist–Leninist)
Marxist–Leninist Party, USA
Communist Ghadar Party of India
SpouseSandra L. Smith
Alma materUniversity of British Columbia
ProfessionLecturer ofmicrobiology

Hardial Bains (15 August 1939 – 24 August 1997) was a Canadiancommunist leader who founded a number of leftist organizations, foremost of which was theCommunist Party of Canada (Marxist–Leninist) (CPC(M-L)). Presenting himself as ananti-revisionist Marxist–Leninist until his death, Bains acted as the spokesperson and ideological leader of the CPC(M-L), known in elections as the Marxist–Leninist Party of Canada. During his lifetime, Bains's outlook was initially heavily influenced byMaoism until theSino-Albanian split, where he then became closely aligned withHoxhaism and the government of thePeople's Socialist Republic of Albania. Shortly before he died, abandoning his previous sharp criticisms of both countries, Bains supported bothCuba andNorth Korea. Spending most of his life inCanada, Bains was also politically active inEngland,Ireland,United States, andIndia. He was alecturer ofmicrobiology by profession.

Biography

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Bains was born in British-ruledPakistan to acommunistSikh family in thePunjab. Bains' family later moved intoIndia where he became a member of the youth wing of theCommunist Party of India (CPI). He was dismayed by what he saw as therevisionism ofNikita Khrushchev following thedeath ofJoseph Stalin. He broke with the party when the CPI, during an underground period, supported Khrushchev's criticisms of Stalin.[1] Shortly after, Bains immigrated to Canada and enrolled as a graduate student inmicrobiology at theUniversity of British Columbia (UBC) from 1960 to 1965, where he was an elected student leader.[2]

In 1963, he helped found "The Internationalists",[3] which evolved from a UBC political discussion group into ananti-revisionist organization that supportedMao Zedong'sChinese Communist Party in theSino-Soviet split. This organisation (in Canada) became the CPC(M-L) with Bains as its founding leader.[3][4]

In 1965, Bains founded the "Internationalists in Ireland", while he was working as a lecturer inmicrobiology atTrinity College, Dublin.[5] In 1970, they renamed themselves theCommunist Party of Ireland (Marxist–Leninist).[6][7]

In 1967, Bains held a small conference of students in London with the express objective determining the future of the anti-revisionist movement, the "Necessity for Change" conference. While theIrish Communist Organisation disagreed with the other delegates and walked out of the meeting,[8] Bains became known as a leader of the anti-revisionist movement internationally,[9] and assisted in establishingMarxist–Leninist parties around the world.

In addition to founding the CPC(M-L) and CPI(ML), Bains is regarded as a major influence on theRevolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist–Leninist), the Communist Party ofTrinidad and Tobago, and theCommunist Ghadar Party of India.[10] Bains was also responsible for the founding of theHindustani Ghadar Party (Organisation of Indian Marxist–Leninists Abroad). He held a leading influence in theMarxist–Leninist Party, USA in the 1970s, although it later split from the CPC(M-L) and dissolved in 1993. Some remnants of the MLP USA loyal to Bains formed the US Marxist-Leninist Organization in the 1980s. Left publications such asModern Communism have written articles on his legacy.[11]

Political affiliations

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As a young man, Bains was a member of theCommunist Party of India, but after the party acceptedNikita Khrushchev's speech, "On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences", he apparently quit, adopting a pro-Stalinist viewpoint.

Later, following theSino-Soviet split, Bains' groups and parties held a strident pro-China position from the 1960s and into the 1970s. Bains himself openly identified as Maoist. The CPC(M-L) was the first significant Maoist formation in Canada, although it was joined by two other Maoist groups in the mid-1970s with each of the groups actively hostile to each other.

WithMao Zedong'sdeath in 1976 and the subsequent Sino-Albanian split, Bains renounced Maoism. Following the leadership ofEnver Hoxha and theParty of Labour of Albania (PLA), he became a prominent spokesperson of the PLA's line internationally, agreeing with the conclusion that numerous communist parties had devolved into "social imperialism" (such asLeonid Brezhnev's USSR,Josip Broz Tito's Yugoslavia,Kim Il Sung's North Korea andFidel Castro's Cuba), while condemningChinese revisionism, andEurocommunism.[12]

Bains's memorial atBeechwood Cemetery.

After the overturn of socialism inAlbania, Bains again re-appraised his ideological outlook. He visited Cuba and announced he had changed his outlook towards the country and now viewed it as a successful example of socialism. The CPC(M-L) also re-appraised its view ofNorth Korea into a positive light. By the end of his life, Bains' writings made fewer and fewer references to anti-revisionism, and developed the theme of democratic renewal and the self-empowerment of the people due to the perceived "world-wide retreat of revolution".

Death and legacy

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After his death, a memorial was erected in the honour of Bains and other CPC(M-L) "fallen comrades" inOttawa'sBeechwood Cemetery. PoetGeorge Elliot Clarke published a poem titled "Homage to Hardial Bains" in 2000 in theOyster Boy Review.[13]

Bains wrote several books, includingNecessity for Change!,Modern Communism,Visiting Cuba,If You Love Your Class andThinking About the Sixties, as well as many articles, pamphlets and speeches.

Sandra L. Smith, his widow, also served as leader of the CPC(M-L).[14]

NFC thought

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Hardial Bains identified his main line of thinking as "Necessity for Change" or NFC thought. Formulated in the early 1960s, NFC thought brought together a variety of Marxist phraseology and addressed someexistentialist ideas popular during that time. His primary concern was how to bring about social revolution and the relationship of this process with the individual. "A successful revolution can transform the world in some very definite direction, but whether it will happen, in the final analysis, is still dependent on the world," Bains wrote, arguing that "Unless it is profoundly appreciated that there is a Necessity for Change at each point [in history and the struggle], and theoretical and practical measures are taken to bring about the change, there is no possibility of creating the subjective conditions for revolution."[15]

The recognition of the Necessity for Change, which created those subjective conditions for revolution, would create a new level of consciousness which broke with the anti-consciousness ofbourgeois thought. "The [human] brain reflects the sharpening class contradictions in the society and other developments. Either the individual transforms this reflection into social consciousness and becomes part of the human factor / social consciousness or remains part of the anti-human factor / anti-consciousness,"[15] he said, writing that:

The battle cry of The Internationalists was "Change the World," while the battle cry of the capitalist class was "change the individual." The NFC analysis of the "I", of the existence of this "relate or relationship" placed the task of changing the world on a profound social basis. A "relate" or "relationship," if it is to be true to itself, must be objective, independent of everyone and dependent on the world. This relate or relationship must be continuously discovered and rediscovered in the course of struggle. It constitutes the centre around which all other consciousness is placed.[15]

But for Bains individual consciousness alone was not sufficient and needed to be joined with a political party. "The crucial ingredient for victory is the human factor / social consciousness, but this factor cannot exist in a vacuum. This factor finds its highest expression in an organisation, which is strengthened on an on-going basis with the sound foundation of a new, modern and revolutionary culture in ideological and social forms,"[15] he wrote, adding that "A Communist Party, if it is to realise its tasks in a mature, professional and on-going manner, must develop revolutionary culture in ideological form, on the one hand, and the revolutionisation of culture in social form, on the other."[15]

Bains strongly decried what he termedrevisionist parties. "Revisionists and opportunists of various kinds," he wrote, "present the bourgeois social forms as the ideal motivating humanity ... Besides fighting for "a bigger slice of the pie" and for job security which this system can never provide, these people, as dogmatists and fanatics, oppose everyone fighting for social revolution."[15] Instead, "The act of joining CPC(ML) will itself be a great leap forward for the creation of a new and affirmed humanity, in which every act of human beings becomes another act for that affirmation, the measure of what is truly human."[16]

Publications

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  • Hardial Bains.The Question is Really One of Word and Deed (pamphlet), Progressive Cultural Association, 1997.ISBN 978-0-9530083-0-8.
  • Hardial Bains.The Call of the Martyrs: On the Crisis in India and the Present Situation in the Punjab. National Publications Centre, 1985.ISBN 978-0-88803-133-4.
  • Hardial Bains.Modern Communism (pamphlet), Communist Party of Canada (Marxist–Leninist), reprinted 1996.ISBN 0-920410-03-0,ISBN 978-0-920410-03-5.
  • Hardial Bains.Communism 1989-1991, Ideological Studies Centre, 1991.
  • Hardial Bains.Necessity for Change! The Dialectic Lives! (pamphlet), The Internationalists, 1967. Reprinted by Communist Party of Canada (Marxist–Leninist), 1998.

References

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  1. ^"Modern Communism and the Political Legacy of Hardial Bains - Part 6: The Events of 1989-91". Modern Communism. Archived fromthe original on April 25, 2012. RetrievedOctober 4, 2011.
  2. ^"Hardial Bains".www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved2024-11-04.
  3. ^ab"CPC - Hardial Bains".Hardial Bains - Party Founder and Leader. Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist). Archived fromthe original on August 9, 2011. RetrievedOctober 4, 2011.
  4. ^Isitt, Benjamin.Militant minority: British Columbia workers and the rise of a New Left, 1948-1972 University of Toronto Press, 2011ISBN 1-4426-1105-7, (p.123).
  5. ^Trinity Tales: Trinity College Dublin in the Sixties edited by Sebastian Balfour, Laurie Howes, Michael De Larrabeiti and Anthony Weale. Lilliput Press,2009. (p. 265-66)
  6. ^Maoism in the Developed World byRobert Jackson Alexander. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2001,ISBN 0-275-96148-6, (p.103)
  7. ^Red Patriot, Vol.2, no.9, 6 July 1970
  8. ^Red Patriot magazine (Ireland), July 19th, 1975.
  9. ^Seattle, Ben (5 April 1998)."In memory of a charlatan". Leninism.org. RetrievedOctober 3, 2011.
  10. ^Seattle, Ben (29 July 1998)."Anniversary".On the 1st anniversary of the death of a charlatan. Leninism.org. RetrievedOctober 4, 2011.
  11. ^"Modern Communism and the Political Legacy of Hardial Bains". Modern Communism. Archived fromthe original on April 25, 2012. RetrievedOctober 3, 2011.
  12. ^Saba, Malcolm; Saba, Paul (5 September 1982)."Once again on Canadian imperialism and the Maoist deviation of the leadership of the CP of Canada (M-L)".The Workers Advocate. Marxist-Leninist Party of the USA. pp. Vol 12, No 8. RetrievedOctober 4, 2011.
  13. ^"Marxist-Leninists seek mass appeal - CBC Archives".CBC News.
  14. ^"Sandra L. Smith - First Secretary of the Central Committee -". Communist Party of Canada (M-L). Archived fromthe original on September 27, 2011. RetrievedOctober 4, 2011.
  15. ^abcdef"The Marxist-Leninist Weekly".
  16. ^"CPC(M-L): Hardial Bains". Archived fromthe original on 2011-08-09. Retrieved2011-10-04.

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