It was hail the proletariat at Prabhadevi's Bhupesh Gupta Bhavan, as a clutch of city communists marked the 200th birth anniversary of Karl Marx, which fell on March 5, over the weekend.

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"We are all Marxists-Leninists" stressed Charul Joshi, member Communist Party of India (CPI) Secretariat, on the sidelines of an event called 'Karl Marx Jayanti: The influence of Marx on Indian theatre, cinema and literature.'" Joshi warned, "Do not define us by what happened in Gadchiroli recently," referring to the deaths of 15 security personnel in a Maoist attack. "We condemn that violence unequivocally. Unfortunately, for the layperson, Marxism is often mistakenly associated with Maoist violence, " he clarified.