Name the brilliant school dropout who established the first communist party outside soviet union?

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M.N. Roy - (Manabendra Nath Roy) Original name Narendranath Bhattacharya Born Feb 6th 1887 Arbelia, India Died Jan 25th 1954 Derha Dun Leader of India's Communists until independance in 1947 Humanist philosopher and activist with rare intellectual gifts and vast practical experience, M.N. Roy was a leading participant in revolutionary movements in four countries spread-out in three continents. A school dropout, Roy joined the ranks of the Bengal militants as a teenager, and soon became a leader of the revolutionary movement which aimed to overthrow British colonialism by means of an armed insurrection. Roy's clandestine travels in search of German and Japanese arms to achieve this purpose began in 1915. In the course of the next 15 years, Roy realised that the Japanese and the Germans had their own designs on India, discovered Karl Marx in a New York library, established in Mexico in 1917 the first communist party outside the Soviet Union http://www.iheu.org/Speeches/BabuGogineni/Philosopher.html Dec 12 02, 7:14 PM

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