India’s communist parties exceed all Eurocommunist parties combined in regional governance
Evidence
This parliamentary republic of the bourgeoisie in India has not been without its own lawlessnesses and violences, of a kind and degree now not normal in Japan or Western Europe, but a bourgeois political subjectivity has been created for the populace at large. The corollary on the Left is that the two communist parties (CPI and CPI–M) have longer and more extensive experience of regional government, within the republic of the bourgeoisie, than all the Eurocommunist parties combined, and the electorate that votes ritually for these two parties is probably larger than the communist electorates in all the rest of the capitalist world. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 158