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Youth and Students should Unite under the Political Banner of the Working Class
India is a semi-feudal, semicolonial state. What is the principal contradiction in this state? It is the contradiction between the alliance of imperialism, feudalism and comprador bourgeoisie on the one hand and the people on the other. The people, the exploited classes are the workers, peasants, small traders, national bourgeoisie and the petty-bourgeoisie. The pettybourgeoisie comprises the intelligentsia that is, teachers, students, office employees, engineers, doctors and so on. They are all exploited and constitute the masses. The only solution of the principal contradiction in Indian society is a people’ s democratic revolution, which will be completed when under the leadership of the communist party a people’ s democratic state will be founded by means of people’ s armed struggle. A revolutionary front has to be formed by uniting all exploited people in the country opposed to imperialism and feudalism. This front will
� the ultimate working of of these every day struggles. They ought not to forget that they are fighting with effects, but not with causes of those effects; that they are retarding the downward movement, but not changing its direction; that they are applying palliatives, not curing the malady. They ought, therefore, not to be exclusively absorbed in these unavoidable guerrilla fights incessantly springing up from the never ceasing encroachments of capital or changes of the market. They ought to understand that, with all the miseries it imposed upon them, the present system simultaneously engenders the material conditions 4 destroy feudalism and comprador capitalism and will root out imperialism from the country. Revolutionary Front and the Intelligentsia
So, the first and foremost task is the formation of a revolutionary front under the leadership of the proletariat and its political party, the communist party, the main force being the peasantry. Other classes and people ruthlessly oppressed by the ruling clique will be in the front as potential allies. Among them a big section is the pettybourgeoisie, intelligentsia and the student community. So it is essential to bring them into the revolutionary front. Every member of the intelligentsia, who is honest and patriotic, has to be brought into within the front. The reason is,“ The young people are the most active and vital force in society. They are the most eager to learn and the least conservative in their thinking.”
Students are the biggest section among the youth, therefore
and the social forms necessary for an economic reconstruction of society. Instead of the conservative motto:“ A fair wage for a fair day’ s work”, they ought to inscribe on their banner the revolutionary watch word:“ Abolition of the wage system”.( Wage, Price and Profit)
To lead these class struggles to the abolition of wage slavery, that is capitalism, needs the leadership of the vanguard of proletariat that is Communist Party.
In India, the communist movement is passing through difficult times facing right and left deviations and revisionist treachery. Surmounting these obstacles( ideological, political and the importance of students in a people’ s democratic revolution can’ t be minimised. Because of various social factors they have had the opportunity for learning unlike workers and peasants. To organise workers and peasants and to propagate revolutionary thoughts among them, the help of the intelligentsia is needed. But it is not enough to get them inside the party. Their class character has to be changed and they have to be imbued with the thought of the working class. The ultimate aim is to transform them into workers as well, and with their help create intellectuals from among the working class. The ruling class always tries to purchase the intelligentsia to suit their requirements. The task of the revolutionaries will be to frustrate their game. Intelligentsia: A Force in the Revolutionary United Front
It is true that the intelligentsia and the students are a powerful force in the anti-feudal, antiorganisational) building a genuine revolutionary communist party is the need of the hour. Without a communist party the New Democratic Revolution cannot progress in India.
Let us rededicate ourselves to the task of building a genuine communist party and lead the people to new democratic revolution and make it a success. This is the spirit of May Day. This is the guidance that Marx has given to the working class of the world.
We will always cherish the memory of Karl Marx! Long Live May Day! Long Live Marxism-Leninism and Mao’ s Thought! �
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