He was the most communist communist in his daily life, whom very few “communists” would recognise as a “communist”. For him, communism was always a real movement and never a state of affairs to be established — it was already there in class activities of workers, which he minutely documented. His life and work could never be separated — he was what he did. Even his oft anti-theoretical stance could be interpreted as practice being one with theory. That was Sher Singh for you.
Beyond Capital 