ON COMMUNIST CODE OF CONDUCT — SHIBDAS GHOSH

The communist code of conduct has been an issue over which both confusion and alien practice have been rampant among the self-styled Marxist parties in this country. In a meeting of Calcutta district party workers back in 1969, Comrade Ghosh provided concrete guidelines as to what should be the communist code of conduct in this present age and in what way should the leaders and cadres of the communist movement conduct their inner party struggles, how and why it was necessary for the leaders and the cadres of the revolutionary party to carry on unfaltering pursuit of a life-style and day-to-day conduct, imbibing the higher proletarian culture, ethics and norms free from bourgeois vulgar individualistic traits, what is the correct understanding of the concepts of criticism- self criticism, how should the relation between leaders and cadres be maintained and developed at all stages and phases of party conduction and various such other vital relevant questions.