( Continuation From the Previous Issue) 3 PRODUCTION ACCORDING TO PLAN— DEVELOPMENT IN PRODUCTION
Division of labour was introduced initially for the conveniences of production and for increasing production. With that much change and development occurred in social production. Division of labour became compulsory and compelling which led to many grave consequences. It resulted in the birth of slave and feudal systems. Afterwards boosted production was made for profits with fierce competition. Later production was centralized. Millionaire capitalists entered into the production field. The seeding for the capitalist society was sown. The capitalist society came into existence. In the capitalist system of production, there will not be a planned production and distribution. They are done exclusively to earn profits. So anarchism will increase in production and distribution leading to a deadlock. This leads to the escalation of imperialist wars and imperialist empires for markets. At the same time the necessities of people are also increased. On one hand there is unending famine and on the other hand we find immense
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Art, Science, Literature and Communism
Kottapalli Rangarao
This is the final part of the literary essay‘ Communists and Literature’ dedicated to the great Marxist teacher Comrade Stalin and first published in Telugu in September 1953. This 70 pages book published by Arunodaya publications, was written by Comrade Kottapalli Rangarao. He was a teacher from Amrutaluru village near Tenali town in Andhra Pradesh, who has undertaken an extensive study of progressive literature as early as 1946 and had written theoretically grounded and authoritative essays that served as a guide to progressive writers.
Considered as one among the early works of Marxist literary criticism in Telugu, this essay examines the policies of the Communist Party of India in different historical phases and their influence on progressive writers. The essay traces the revolutionary developments in modern Telugu literature and points out its shortcomings. It highlights the unfinished tasks that remain relevant even today.‘ Class Struggle’ is pleased to publish this essay in English translation. The first and the second parts of this essay were published
in July, August issues of‘ Class Struggle’.- Editor
stocks. The standard of living falls down and the purchasing power of the people decreases. In order to expose and remove these contradictions a revolution, planned production and planned distribution became necessary. As a consequence of the First World War, socialist system through a socialist revolution and as a result of the Second World War, new democratic systems were established in East Europe, East Germany, North Korea and China. Empires and colonial capitalist states collapsed one by one and disappeared.
In this method, planned, centralised and required production will be done. The production will be distributed in a planned way to those producers in their respective regions. Industries belong to the nation and there will be development, Towns as well as villages will get all facilities. The disparities between the towns and villages will disappear. Day by day the time is nearing for the success of this method throughout the world. The great experiences and wonderful results achieved through Russian revolution, are being practised today in the countries in which the working class had come in to power. If this method is to be implemented throughout the world many more struggles and revolutions are to take place. These struggles are continuing everyday throughout the world against the decaying imperialism and capitalist governments. People are not satisfied with the defeat and disappearance of fascism in Germany, Italy and Japan. The poisonous seeds of imperialism which are in their last breath are still sprouting in the dilapidated capitalist states, and with the support of capitalist countries are rising in another form and are assuming almost all the features of fascism. People are coming forward day by day to weed out these poisonous seeds. Soviet Union with its wonderful successes achieved through its revolutionary experiences, became a ray of hope and a guiding light to all these struggles throughout the world.
DECADENT LITERATURE— VARIOUS FORMS
The evil features of deteriorating bourgeois society, the disfigured imperialist forms and images and the evil fascist poisonous seeds that sprouted in various crazy forms have started to reflect in art, science and literature also. Writings of existentialism, philosophical nihilism, super-man theory, arguments about pure art and pure science etc. are directly or indirectly support the capitalist class, and the consequences of the capitalist
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