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Tarimela Nagi Reddy— A Spark of Fire Burning in the Heart of the Movement
Even five decades after his passing, the name of Tarimela Nagi Reddy remains a burning spark in the heart of the movement. The emotionally charged event held at M. B. Bhavan in Vijayawada stands as living testimony to his revolutionary brilliance and enduring charisma, which have not diminished with the passage of time. The manner in which the oppressed people and working masses gathered for the memorial lecture held on the evening of August 29, marking the 50 th death anniversary of Communist Warrior Comrade Tarimela Nagi Reddy( TN), once again demonstrated that Nagi Reddy’ s stature cannot be erased by time.
To pay homage to the revolutionary giant who had rejected the grandeur of a wealthy landlord family as worthless and devoted his entire life to the liberation of the poor and downtrodden, not only farmers, workers, teachers, students and youth, but also leaders of various Left ideological group leaders and democrats came together on a single platform.
The meeting, held under the chairmanship of Comrade S. Jhansi, Chairman of the TNM Trust, began with an account by the Trust Secretary, V. V. N. Basava Rao, of the ideological and publishing activities undertaken by the Trust. A. Suresh, Convenor of the AISYO( All India Students & Youth Organisation), also participated as a speaker and addressed the gathering.
The screening of“ Man of the Earth”, a documentary produced by Dharitri Creations, moved everyone in the audience. The documentary poignantly portrayed how TN, after renouncing all luxuries, courageously confronted the most severe forms of state repression, including the Hyderabad Conspiracy Case; endured ten years of imprisonment and five long years underground; and emerged as a powerful voice of the people in the legislatures.
With more than 500 people filling M. B. Bhavan, the audience remained deeply engaged from the beginning of the meeting to its conclusion. Their complete absorption in the proceedings stood as living testimony to Nagi Reddy’ s stature and to his charisma, which remains undiminished even after all these years.
Amid this emotionally charged atmosphere, the memorial lecture delivered by Professor D. Narasimha Reddy, retired professor of the University of Hyderabad and a prominent agricultural economist, immersed the gathering in a sea of thought. His lecture, titled“ Tarimela Nagi Reddy’ s Political-Economic Perspective— The Present Agricultural Crisis in India,” offered a deep analysis linking the present domestic and international economic crises with Nagi Reddy’ s far-sighted vision. 28
A Revolutionary Intellectual Grounded in Concrete Evidence
Professor D. Narasimha Reddy praised Nagi Reddy for completely refuting, through his writings, the criticism that Marxist theoreticians often confine themselves to general formulations. In TN’ s book India at Stake, more than 71 official titles, reports and press sources are cited in just a few chapters. He pointed out that TN was a rare kind of intellectual, almost like a research guide, who turned the enemy’ s statistics and government documents themselves into weapons to establish the exploitation of imperialism. The Transformation of Global Capitalism after 1971
Professor Narasimha Reddy explained that although Nagi Reddy analysed imperialism on the basis of the economic conditions of 1971, global capitalism underwent unforeseen transformations in the five decades that followed. He pointed out that after the Second World War, institutions such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund emerged following the Bretton Woods Conference in 1945, giving a new form to global economic relations. Initially, he recalled, these institutions sustained their industrial sectors under the pretext of providing loans to developing countries for the purchase of machinery. Oil Shock— Shift towards the Service Sector
The“ oil shock” from the Arab countries in the early 1970s severely affected the global economy. As fuel costs for the industrial sector rose enormously, imperialist countries shifted their focus from the export of industrial products towards the“ service sector”, including banking, insurance, entertainment and software. This development marked a major turning point in the pattern of imperialist exploitation. Global Trade Order: From GATT to WTO
Recognising that the old market rules, which were largely confined to trade in industrial goods, were inadequate for the service sector and agriculture, imperialist powers brought the World Trade Organisation( WTO) to the forefront. Professor Narasimha Reddy explained that these international trade agreements were used as a weapon to bring the service sector and agricultural markets of developing countries such as India under their control. LPG Policies— Destruction of the Public Sector
The policies of liberalisation, privatisation and globalisation introduced after 1991 shattered the domestic economic structure. Not only education and healthcare, which were once provided as free contd. in Class page Struggle 23