Economic Warfare Strategy

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The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has actually ruled West Bengal state in India for over 30 years, winning successive elections repeatedly. Lately it has embraced foreign investment and have, ironically, faced much armed opposition from the Naxalites.

PM Manmohan Singh has called the Naxalites "the single biggest internal security challenge ever faced by our country", which is a pretty big declaration given India's long history of insurgencies.

edit: Decent Economist summary of the Naxalite movement in its most recent incarnation, with a good mention of how a "popular" movement of anti-Communist militia has sprung up and escalated the level of violence in the countryside.