Ajoy Ghosh who, in his book Bhagat Singh and His Comrades, had stated in 1945 that “it would be an exaggeration to call Bhagat Singh a Marxist”. This change of heart had something to do with the party’s internal compulsions:
In 1948, there was an abrupt drop in the number of party cadre — from 90,000 to 9,000 — & CPI needed a credible face to save itself from extinction. CPI’s loss of face was understandable, called India’s Ind a farce (“Yeh Azaadi Jhuthhi Hai”) and observed August 15 was “black day”
Ajoy Ghosh, SA Dange & others clandestinely met Stalin in Moscow who advised them to recognise India’s Independence, abjure the Telangana armed struggle and work for “the united front of workers, peasants, intelligentsia and the national bourgeoisie.”
They were also asked to identify themselves with India’s freedom struggle since 1857. As a result, the CPI celebrated August 15 in 1951 and thus in search of young national heroes thye found Bhagat Singh in 1953.
In his jail diary on page no 102. Bhagat Singh noted down the difference between Marxism and Socialism from the book of Vladimir sikhovitch. Here theories of Marx are criticized vehemently. He reiterated his socialist stand which was based on his learning of Marx,
and other philosophers. In his jail diary one can find writings of Lenin Marx, hegel, Tagore, gandhi, bipin chandra pal, Bertrand Russell, Plato, rossuea, dostoevsky, jack london, bible etc. one thing is clearly evident that Bhagat Singh was actually desperately
..in search of ultimate ideology of human liberation from all kinds of yokes.
He was a man of reason who read every ideology and would test its mettle against others and against Indian situations.
He was a man of reason who read every ideology and would test its mettle against others and against Indian situations.
Bhagat criticizes hypocrite communists as follows "there are certain people in the labour movement who enlist some absurd ideas about the economic liberties of the peasants and the workers without political freedom. They are muddle headed people or demagogues. ..
Such ideas are unimaginable and preposterous. We mean the economic liberty of masses and for that very purpose we are striving to win the political power..”
“My name has become a symbol of revolution.The ideals & sacrifices of revolutionary party hv raised me very high. So exalted is my place that in case I continued to live I can in no case rise higher than this..Who could be luckier than me?I am proud of myself these days”:March 22
Long live the revolution for it devours the revolutionary.
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