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Naxalite Movement
CPI (Maoist) · 1967– · India · Maoist Insurgent · Movement · coding confidence medium
Each axis runs from −10 to +10, with zero a genuine mixed or balanced position rather than an absence of opinion. A score describes a stated position and a governing record; it is not a judgement of merit. What each score means →
Core principles
An armed peasant movement in India's forested tribal belt, which the Indian state has described as its gravest internal security threat.
Economic model
Land seizure and redistribution, taxation of mining and forest contractors in areas it controls.
Organisation of powers
A clandestine party with military commands; no electoral participation; rival factions have entered politics separately.
Reading note
Overlaps almost exactly with the mineral belt and the areas of greatest tribal displacement, which is the movement's own explanation of itself.
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EC · Economic organisation · scored −09
Coded −9: land seizure and taxation of extraction.
- ScholarshipThe movement levies on mining and forest contractors in areas it controls.
CU · Social and cultural order · scored −02
Coded −2: egalitarian on caste and gender within an authoritarian command.
- ScholarshipA large share of cadres are Adivasi and a substantial minority are women.
AU · Organisation of power · scored +08
Coded +8: a clandestine party with military commands and no electoral participation.
- Documented act or statuteFront organisations have been banned and the party is proscribed.
SC · Scale of decision · scored +03
Coded +3: regional guerrilla zones under a central committee.
- ScholarshipThe movement operates across a corridor spanning several states.
ID · Rule of membership · scored +01
Coded +1: a class frame organised among Adivasi communities.
- ScholarshipIts territory overlaps closely with the areas of greatest tribal displacement.
CH · Method and tempo · scored +09
Coded +9: armed struggle as the constitutive method.
- Documented act or statuteThe Indian government has described it as the gravest internal security threat.
Where it came from, and what came after
- takes its doctrine fromMaoism
Named for the 1967 Naxalbari uprising and organised on the Chinese model.
Nearest organisations by measured distance
Straight-line separation across all six axes, out of a maximum of 49.0. Proximity means similarity of stated position, not endorsement and not resemblance in outcome.
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