the tiny state in southern India with a population of 32 million, elected its first Communist government. Today, more than forty years later, hammer and sickle flags fly proudly from lamp posts alongside massive Che Guevarra posters. And if that don't beat all the literacy rate in Kerala is the highest in India. Infant mortality is one-fifth of the national average and life expectancy is a full ten years higher than the national average - better to be red than dead they must say