Bhagat singh and the revolution
Found this nice article on this site. Have been thinking about bhagat singh since rang de basanti especially about his young age. I am sure the age of 23 in 1930 is not comparable to a youngster of 23 in 2006. I mean people would often have kids going to school by that age though bhagat singh did not marry (my grandma was a mother at age 16).
I did not know of bhagat singh's communistic leanings though and the article was extremely educative. If bhagat singh would have been successful in igniting a communist movement what would have happened? The most impressive part of bhagat singh's vision is his thinking of what kind of a country we should have rather than just have a narrow objective of throwing out the british. Although I respect so many of the freedom fighters but we have had only one hero - bhagat singh.
I did not know of bhagat singh's communistic leanings though and the article was extremely educative. If bhagat singh would have been successful in igniting a communist movement what would have happened? The most impressive part of bhagat singh's vision is his thinking of what kind of a country we should have rather than just have a narrow objective of throwing out the british. Although I respect so many of the freedom fighters but we have had only one hero - bhagat singh.
posted by Saurabh Chandra at 8:21 AM
2 Comments:
Bhagat Singh was a revolutionary. 'Inqlab Zindabad'slogan is attributed to him. During his times and even upto early 60s, most young people were influenced by Marx and his ideas. It was an expression against exploitation and imperialism.
It was not the communism as understood today. The last known person who understood Marx(!), in India, was Acharya Narendra Dev - a Democrat Socialist.
Bhagat Singh was not in the mould of Communists even in those days. Communists sided with Britishers during WW II because USSR was on the side of Britishers. I am sure Bhagat Singh would have not done so - he was not member of Communist Party but was member of Chandra Shekhar Azad's party - Hindustan Revolutionary Party or something like that.
The article describes this very nicely. Communist party was formed after Bhagat Singh died so he did not have a choice, however, the hindustan republican party which bhagat singh renamed as hindustan socialist republican party got disintegrated after azad and bhagat singh both died.
It is true though that bhagat singh's voice was against exploitation and imperialism and he was looking for other movements fighting against these. He was also influenced by Lenin's thesis that imperialism was the highest form of capitalism.
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