-Rajesh Tyagi; 20 March 2009
Time and again we hear that capitalist ruling classes, their leaders, parties and regimes in India, have deliberately suppressed the revolutionary essence of ideas of Bhagat Singh.
This is undoubtedly true. But this is only half truth. The whole truth is that the parties of Stalinist Comintern and their leaders have equally contributed to this suppression. In both cases, the suppression is deliberate and calculated, as it goes to the benefit of both of them.
While the capitalists project Bhagat Singh and his ideas in the grey shades of nationalism and patriotism, the Stalinist leadership, in addition, platters him 'simply' as a revolutionary sympathetic to the socialism of their own variant, that hardly has anything in common with revolutionary marxism and its internationalist essence.
Stalinists and their later adherents- Maoists, attempt, but in vain, to claim the legacy of Bhagat Singh and to assimilate and identify his ideas with their own.
This is undoubtedly true. But this is only half truth. The whole truth is that the parties of Stalinist Comintern and their leaders have equally contributed to this suppression. In both cases, the suppression is deliberate and calculated, as it goes to the benefit of both of them.
While the capitalists project Bhagat Singh and his ideas in the grey shades of nationalism and patriotism, the Stalinist leadership, in addition, platters him 'simply' as a revolutionary sympathetic to the socialism of their own variant, that hardly has anything in common with revolutionary marxism and its internationalist essence.
Stalinists and their later adherents- Maoists, attempt, but in vain, to claim the legacy of Bhagat Singh and to assimilate and identify his ideas with their own.
