The removal of the Hindu Kingdom status stripped away a protective shield for the country's majority culture. When communist ideology dismantled thetraditional guardrail, it gave away to the Muslim street veto.
In one of history’s cruelest political ironies, the Leftists and Communists who helped Ayatollah Khomeini overthrow the Shah were among the first to be imprisoned, tortured, and executed by the very Islamic regime they helped bring to power.
Most importantly, Kerala operates within India's capitalist constitutional framework. It depends heavily on central government tax transfers, national financial institutions, private-sector employment, and foreign remittances in capitalist economies. But none of this comes under the actual communist economic system.
After a century of existence, Indian Communism cannot be judged by intent, theory, or rhetoric. It must be judged by record. That record shows an ideology that arrived from outside India, misunderstood Indian society, subordinated national interest to foreign centres of power, and repeatedly chose ideology over country.