Rememeber Bhagat Singh and What he Stood For
Thanks Jagmohan Ji for reminding us of this important anniversary.
Bhagat Singh was truly a remarkable individual: fiercely independent, supremely courageous, and highly thoughtful--a combination quite unusual in men. Let us remember for a moment what he stood for, in other words, what motivated him to sacrifice his life. He was a far more complex man than is represented in popular culture, including some pathetic films that are supposedly based on his life. It is important to remember that he was all of
23 years old when he was executed. Given below is an excerpt about his ideology:
Bhagat Singh and his Revolutionary ideas
Bhagat Singh and his comrades also gave expression to their understanding that the revolution meant the development and organization of a mass movement of the exploited and suppressed sections of the society. Just before his execution he said "the revolutionary are in villages and factories". In a letter from jail he wrote "Peasants have to liberate themselves not only from the foreign yoke but also from the landlords and capitalists. In his last message of 1931, he declared that struggle in India would continue so long as "a handful of exploiters go on exploiting the labour of common people for their own ends.
It matters little whether these exploiters are British capitalists, British and Indians in alliance, or purely Indians.
Bhagat Singh defined socialism in a scientific way. To him It meant abolition of capitalism and class domination. He fully accepted Marxism and the class approach to society. In fact he saw himself above all as a precursor and not a maker of revolution, as a propagator of the ideas of socialism and communism, as a humble initiator of the socialist movement in India.
Bhagat Singh was a great innovator in two areas of politics. Being fully consciously secular, he understood more clearly that communalism is the major danger posed to the nation and the national movement.
He often told his audience that communalism is as dangerous as colonialism.
For his famous essay
"Why I am an atheist", see below (5-6 Oct 1930)
This is a must read!
http://www.tarksheel.com/nastikeng.htm
