Some Progressive
visuals from the human history, which provided a feeling and respect of being a
human in the heart, mind and life of the masses of working people.
In
the words of John Reed to explain the condition of October Revolution
(1917) in Russia: From
the book “Ten Days that shook the world”:
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“In a provincial town I
knew a merchant family turned speculator -maradior (bandit, ghoul) the Russians
call it.” .
. “while the masses of the people got a quarter pound of black bread on their
bread cards, he had an abundance of white bread, sugar, tea, candy, cake and
butter.... Yet when the soldiers at the front could no longer fight from cold,
hunger and exhaustion, how indignantly did this family scream “Cowards!” – “how
ashamed they were to be Russians”... When finally the Bolsheviks found and
requisitioned vast hoarded stores of provisions, what “Robbers” they were.”
(Page- 49.3)
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“As in all such times,
the petty conventional life of the city went on, ignoring the Revolution
as much as possible. The poets made verses-but not about the Revolution.
The realistic painters painted scenes from medieval Russian history-anything
but the Revolution.” (Page- 53.5)
“The
waiters and hotel servants were organized, and refused tips.” . . . “On the
walls of restaurants they put up signs which read, ”No tips taken here-” or,
”Just because a man has to make his living waiting on table is no reason to
insult him by offering him a tip!” (Page- 54.2)
“Hundreds of thousands
of pamphlets were distributed by thousands of organizations, and poured into
the armies, the villages, the factories, the streets. The thirst for education,
so long thwarted, burst with the Revolution into a frenzy of expression.” . . .
“Russia absorbed reading matter like hot sand drinks water, insatiable. And it
was not fables, falsified history, diluted religion, and the cheap fiction that
corrupts-but social and economic theories, philosophy, the works of Tolstoy,
Gogol, and Gorky....” (Page- 55.1)
What is the Condition of
literature and Books in India, Take a lookHere
चार्नेविश्की द्वारा 1864 हर प्रगतिशाल व्यकित के लिए कहे नये येशब्द जो उन्होनें भविष्य के वर्गहीन समाज
के निर्माण के लिए (Future which is yet to come) और वर्तमानसमाज को सुन्दर बनानें के लिए लिखे थे,
"सभी को स्वाधीनता और श्रम का वरदान मिला होता है", और
"श्रम आनन्द को अपनीं शक्ति और ऊर्जा प्रदानकरता है।"
"भविष्य उज्वल और सुन्दर है। उससे प्रेम करो उसकी ओर अग्रसर होओ, उसके लिए काम करो, उसे निकट लाओ।भविष्य की जितनीं बातों को वर्तमान में ला सकते हो, उन्हे लाओ, तुम्हारा जीवन उतना ही उज्वल और भला, उतना ही हर्षदाई और आनन्दमय होगा, जितना भविष्य तुम आपने वर्तमान में उतार सकोगे; इसी पर जीवन की गरिमा, इसका सुख-सौन्दर्य और सन्तोष निर्भर है।"
- Page-373 Novel "क्या करें", by चार्नेविश्की (Chernyshevsky)
Some words spoken by the main character of the novel "Rameau's Nephew" written byDenis Diderot in 1762:
". . . putting his right hand to his chest, he added, "I feel something there rising up—it says to me, 'Rameau, you'll do none of that.' There must be a certain dignity attached to human nature which nothing can extinguish. The most trivial thing will awaken it—something trifling. There are other days when it would cost me nothing to be as vile as anyone could wish . . ."
". . . How come there are ten thousand fine tables in Paris, each with fifteen or twenty places, and there's no place for you! There are purses full of gold spilling over left and right, and no piece falls on you! A thousand fine half wits without talent or merit, a thousand tiny creatures without charm, a thousand insipid schemers are well dressed, and you'd walk around naked? In this business how could you be so stupid? Couldn't you lie, swear, forswear, promise, and then perform or fail to perform, like everyone else? Couldn't you crawl on hands and knees like the others? . . . . ."
लेकिन फिर भी आज २३ मार्च, शहीद दिवस, केदिन जब पूरे देश के “नौजवान” क्रिकेट में "व्यस्त" है, और ज्यादातर यह भीनहीं जानते कि २३ मार्च १९३१ को भगत सिंह, राजगुरु और सुखदेव को फांसी दीगयी थी; जब कि पूरा पूंजीवादी मीडिया कभी इसकी चर्चा नहीं करता, तो कम सेकम हमें अपनें प्रयास से ही कुछ लोगों के कानों तक कुछ जानकारी पहुंचादेनी चाहिए | इस सब के साथ-साथ हमारे आसपास कुछ और भी हो रहा हैं, जैसे नेताशाही घोटाले करनें में व्यस्त है !! अफसारशाही घूसखोरी में व्यस्त है!!पूंजीवादी मुनाफाखोरी में व्यस्त हैं !! और साम्राज्यवादी दुसरे देशों के उद्योगों को लूटने में व्यस्त हैं !!और जनता . . . . !!
हो सकता है कि कुछ लोग जो अपनी रोजमर्रा की छोटी-छोटीसमस्यायों के लिएसरकार को कोसनें के अलावाऔर कुछ भी नहीं करते, वे सायद कायरता सूचक अपनी बेबुनियाद बहसों से आगे बढकर कुछ महत्वपूर्ण बातों के बारे में भी सोच सकें |
ज्यादातरलोग बहस करते हुए दिखाते हैं कि उस पूंजीपति ने एक बड़ा घर बना लिया ! उसविशिष्ट व्यक्ति नें कुछ और पैसे जमाकर लिए! सचिन नें एक और शतक बनालिया!.... लेकिन ये लोग उन अनेक लोगों के बारे में भूल चुके हैं जिनकीकुर्बानी की बदौलत आज ये हम विदेशी शोषण और खुली तानाशाही से आज़ाद होकरचैन की साँस ले पा रहे हैं, और जिनकी बदौलत "Indian and Dogs not allowed" वाले पोस्टर अब नहीं दिखाते | लेकिन फिर भी मेहनतकश जनता के शोषण कीपरिस्थितियां लगातार बदतर होती जा रहीं है| जिसके कारण आज-कलचोर और धोकेबाज़ (ये सच किसी से छिपा नहीं है! और जिसे यह भी नहीं पता उसको भारत का नागरिक कहलानें का कोई अधिकार नहीं !!)नेताशाही, अफसरशाही और पूंजीपति वर्ग को इन क्रांतिकारी शहीदों के नाम से डर लगताहै; लेकिन क्यों लगता है ? क्योकि कहीं इन शहीदो के साम्यवाद के विचार जिनको वे अपने छोटे से जीवन काल में समझ चुके थे, वे विचार कही जनता के कानों में न पड़ जाएँ नहीं तो जनता उनकी चोरी को पकड़ लेगी और उनकी लूट-खसोट ज्यादा नहीं चल पयेगी !!
--> भगत सिंह, राजगुरु और सुखदेव के साथी शिव वर्मा की किताब से कुछ विचार,
"आज जिस आज़ादी का उपभोग हम कर रहे हैं उसकी भव्य इमारत की बुनियाद डालने में . . . कितने ही ज्ञात तथा अज्ञात क्रांतिकारियों ने अपना रक्त और मांस गला दिया था|. . .क्या हम उसका उचित सम्मान कर रहे हैं?" (pg. १३१ संस्मृतियाँ शिव वर्मा)
"बीसवीं शताब्दी के तीसरे दशक में जहाँ एक तरफ देश की क्रांतिकारी शक्तियाँ करवटें बदल रही थीं और मजदूर तथा किसान जनता कुछ कर गुजरने के लिए कसमसा रही थी वहीँ देशद्रोही राजभक्त प्रतिक्रियावादी शक्तियाँ हिन्दुओं और मुसलमानों को लड़ाकर जनता को पथ विमुख करने का प्रयास कर रही थीं| उसका विरोध करते हुए हिन्दू-मुस्लिम एकता पर बल देकर घोषणा-पत्र में धार्मिक अन्ध-विशवास पर तीखा प्रहार किया गया था|" . . . ". .. हम भारतवासी क्या कर रहे हैं? पीपल की एक डाल टूटते ही हिन्दुओं की धार्मिक भावनाएं चोटिल हो उठती हैं| बुतों को तोड़ने वाले मुसलमानों कि ताजिये नाम के कागज़ के बुत का एक कोना फटते ही अल्लाह का प्रकोप जाग उठता है और फिर वह नापाक हिन्दुओं के खून से कम किसी वस्तु से संतुष्ट नहीं होता| मनुष्य को पशुओं से अधिक महत्व दिया जाना चाहिए लेकिन यहाँ भारत में वे लोग पवित्र पशु के नाम पर एक-दुसरे का सर फोड़ते हैं|" (pg. १५८ संस्मृतियाँ शिव वर्मा)
Yesterday I have been reading a novel "The first joy" (पहली उमंगें) by Konstantin Fedin. Novel contains an event regarding humanitarian thoughts of Tolstoy. After reading that section, today I searched about Tolstoy and got an article written by Tolstoy regarding Indians, which was published in India in 1909. Then I tried to relate this article with the present conditions of more than three fourth of the population, living in poverty, unemployment, insecurity, and facing problems in their daily life. I would like to share few very good lines from this article.
Condition of Indians In Colon
[Reference From: ("A Letter To A Hindu" by Leo Tolstoy, 1909): With an Introduction by M. K. Gandhi]
'A commercial company enslaved a nation comprising two hundred millions. Tell this to a man free from superstition and he will fail to grasp what these words mean. What does it mean that thirty thousand people, not athletes, but rather weak and ordinary people, have enslaved two hundred millions of vigorous, clever, capable, freedom-loving people? Do not the figures make it clear that not the English, but the Indians, have enslaved themselves?'
In another paragraph he added,
"In former times the chief method of justifying the use of violence and thereby infringing the law of love was by claiming a divine right for the rulers: the Tsars, Sultans, Rajahs, Shahs, and other heads of states. But the longer humanity lived the weaker grew the belief in this peculiar, God-given right of the ruler. That belief withered in the same way and almost simultaneously in the Christian and the Brahman world, as well as in Buddhist and Confucian spheres, and in recent times it has so faded away as to prevail no longer against man's reasonable understanding"
One side of present developing India
Now, look at the next section of the same,
"People saw more and more clearly, and now the majority see quite clearly, the senselessness and immorality of subordinating their wills to those of other people just like themselves, when they are bidden to do what is contrary not only to their interests but also to their moral sense. And so one might suppose that having lost confidence in any religious authority for a belief in the divinity of potentates of various kinds, people would try to free themselves from subjection to it. But unfortunately not only were the rulers, who were considered supernatural beings, benefited by having the peoples in subjection, but as a result of the belief in, and during the rule of, these pseudo-divine beings, ever larger and larger circles of people grouped and established themselves around them, and under an appearance of governing took advantage of the people.And when the old deception of a supernatural and God-appointed authority had dwindled away these men were only concerned to devise a new one which like its predecessor should make it possible to hold the people in bondage to a limited number of rulers."
Now, more than 77 % population is not "allowed" to participate in the development
But, still rulers are there, and these religious rulers are now replaced by some world imperialists and capitalist class, and they just use the name of religion and God for it. Today, rulers don't say they are the representative of God, they simply create a false smoke of problems that ruled classes are living at their own "misfortune" while God has given a mental ability to enjoy a "successful" life, while other masses that are poor, are paying for their own "bad-luck".
Looking at present conditions, it looks universal truth for every time while there will be exploitation of one man by another man and one nation by another nation, as of today it is happening . . . (But, now it is not British rule!)
“In a provincial town I
knew a merchant family turned speculator -maradior (bandit, ghoul) the Russians
call it.” 
