The Question of Compulsory Land Acquisition and the Working Class

-Rajesh Tyagi/ 1.3.2015

Centre-stage in global development was occupied by urban cities, long back in history. Rest of the world, relegated to backward periphery around these centres, however continued to be dragged, gradually, into the whirlpool of urbanisation, since then. In 2007, the total urban population on our planet, had exceeded the rural one, heralding the advent of a new era in human history.

This urbanization of the world, marked briefly by an age of revolutions triggered by the ‘Red October’ and receding into later defeats of the international working class, had continued broadly to advance under capitalism.

The defeats of the world working class in the last century have not only left the twentieth century unfinished historically, but have doomed the world to rot inside the shell of decadent capitalism.

This advance of world capitalism, spanning over the last century in its highly developed stage, the imperialist stage, has been marred everywhere by wars, blood, violence and innumerable human sufferings.