IMPRISONMENT

We seize a man and deliberately do him a malicious injury : Say , imprison him for years …………. A man breaking into my home and stealing my wife’s diamonds , I am expected as a matter of course to steel ten years of his life ,torturing him all the time . …. But the thought less wickedness with which we scatter sentences of imprisonment , torture in the solitary cell and on the plank bed and flogging or moral invalids and energetic rebels , is as nothing compared to stupid levity with which we tolerate Poverty .                                                            

 The crying need of the nation is not for better morals ,“cheap bread” temperance liberty ,culture , redemption of fallen sisters and erring brothers nor the grace ,love and fellowship of trinity, but simply for enough money. And the evil to be attacked is not Sin, suffering ,greed , priest craft ,kingcraft, demagogy, monopoly ,ignorance , drink, war pestilence , nor any other of the scapegoat which reformers sacrifice but simply poverty .                                                         

But the successful scoundrel is dealt with very difficulty and very Christianity. He is not only forgiven ,he is idolized ,respected made much of all but worshipped.                        

The seven deadly Sins ? Yes the deadly seven ! Food , clothing , firing , rent ,taxes , respectability, and children . Nothing can lift these seven milestones from Man’s neck but ………Poverty . A crime ? Yes………….

crime are virtues besides it all the other dishonors are chivalry itself by comparison . Poverty blights whole cities ; spreads horrible pestilence; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound or smell of it . What you call crime is nothing …….. There are not 50 genuine professional criminals in London. But there are millions of poor people , abject people , dirty people, ill fed, ill clothed people.                                       

 “ I had rather be a thief than a pauper. I had rather be murderer than a slave .I don’t want to be either; but if you force ,the alternative on me , then ,by heaven I’ll choose the braver and more moral one .I hate poverty and slavery worse than any other crime what so ever.

Imprisonment as it exists today ,is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims; for no single criminal can be as powerful for evil, or as unrestrained in its exercise , as an organized Nation.”

…… people who have ascertained the truth about prison have been driven to declare that the most urgent necessity of the situation is that every judge magistrate , and home secretary should serve a six month’s sentence in eoginto ; so that when he is dealing out and enforcing sentences he should at least know that (what) he is doing

ANSWERS, ANSWERS…WHY?

No Classes ! No Compromise !!

Under the Socialist movement there is coming a time and the time may be even now at hand , when improved conditions or adjusted wages will no longer be thought to be an answer to cry for labor; yes when these will be but an insult of the common intelligence. It is not for better wages, improved capitalist conditions or a share of capitalist profits that the Socialist movement is in the world; it is here for the abolition or wages and profits and for the end of capitalism and private capital. Reformed political institutions boards of arbitration between capital and labour ,philanthropies and privileges that are but the capitalist’s gifts- none of these can much longer answer the question that is making the temples ,thrones and Parliaments of the nation tremble. There can be no peace between the man who is down and the man who builds on his back. There can be no reconciliation between classes; there can only be end of classes. It is idle to talk of goodwill until there is first justice, and idle to talk of justice until the man who makes the world possesses the work of his own hands. The cry of the world’s workers can be answered with nothing save the whole product of their work.

 

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Permanency of the Social Institutions

It is one of the illusions of each generation that the social institutions in which it lives are, in some peculiar ‘sense’, “natural ” , unchangeable and permanent. Yet for countless thousands of years, social institutions have been successively arising , developing, decaying and becoming gradually superseded by others better adopted to contemporary needs…….

…. The question ,then , is not whether our present civilization will be transformed ,but how it will be transformed?

It may be considerate adaption , be made to pass gradually and peacefully into a new form . Or , if there is angry resistance instead of adaption ,it my crash , leaving mankind painfully to build up a new civilization from the lower level of stage of social chaos and disorder in which not only the abuses but also the material, intellectual and moral gains of the previous order will have been lost.

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Democracy

Democracy is theoretically a system of political and legal equality . But in concrete and practical operation it is false, for there can be no equality , not even in politics and before the law , so long as there is glaring in equality in economic power. So long as the ruling class owns the worker’s jobs and the press and the schools of country and all organs for the moulding and expression of public opinion; so long as it monopolise all trained public functionaries and disposes of unlimited funds to influence elections , so long as the laws are made by ruling class and the courts are presided over by members of that class, so long as lawyers are private practitioners who sell their skill to the highest bidder and litigation is technical and costly , so long will the nominal equality before the law be a hollow mockery.

In a capitalist regime the whole machinery of democracy operates to keep the ruling class minority in power through the suffrage of working class majority, and when the bourgeois government feels itself endangered by democratic institutions, such institutions re often crushed without compunction.

Democracy does not secure ” equal rights and a share in all political rights for every body , to what ever class or party he may belong ” (Kautsky) It only allows free political and legal play .For the existing economic inequalities …………. Democracy under capitalism is thus not general, abstract democracy but specific bourgeois democracy ………. or as Lenin terms it ————- democracy for bourgeois .

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SOCIAL PROBLEMS

The present social order is a ridiculous mechanism ,in which portions of the whole are in conflict and acting against the whole. We see each class in society desires, from interest , the misfortune of the other class , placing in every way individual interest in opposition to public good. The lawyer wishes litigations and suits , particularly among the rich; the physician desires sickness .(The latter would be ruined if every body died without disease, as would the former if all quarrells were settled by arbitration.) The soldier wants war ,which will carry off half his comrades and secure him promotion; the undertaker wants burials;monopolists and forestallers want famine ,to double or treble the price of grain; the architect , the carpenter, the mason , want conflagration, that will burn down a hundred houses to give activity to their branches of business. Every man’s, worman’s and Children’s business runs on the basis some one else business “running out”. The Insecurity in this world is daunting and quiet unimaginable.

The People of India will never learn. Azad, Rajguru, Bhagat Singh did not want to become ideal that people come to get blessings. It’s really quiet shamefull if not mocking to these great people who have died for such an important reason. It’s mocking in the sense that people from everywhere come to recieve blessings so “My son passses his exam” or to pray “That I get the Job”. This is why Bhagat singh left faith on this religion. Not only does it develops the habit of asking for materilistic causes but it also is the root for most major susperstitions. There will be no one in that crowd that will boldly say that “Make my son like you, let him fight for our country”.

NOT A SINGLE PERSON.

That’s why I say, and many before me have repeated that Religion was, is and never will be the anwser of India. I am no follower of Athesim or for that matter Agnosticism(Infact I’m a strong believer in the almighty), But Either of these might be tolerated, but materialism is utterly inadmissible. But tell you truth, it’s not really the individual’s fault because this submissions to ‘superiors’ and ‘authority’ is imposed on ‘lower’ classes by divine will. It’s almost as if it’s in their Blood. No one actually wants to be Free. People say that India is Democratic country, a republican for that. On every corner someone is being dictated by some one superior and more powerful than themselves. And not only that, they actually are letting themselves be dictated. An owner of a corner store pays land tax for actually being able to run his store there, then he pays half of his income to the local Don’s so his store is “Protected”. Then that Don pays half his income to the local cheif of police to keep him “Protected”. Then the cheif of police, just to show his favors, ignores all the raid’s and all charts sheets against a bigger Don. Then That Don pays someone else to keep his unsouly life protected and this goes on unitl it basically reaches the C.M., the Cheif Minister or as I like to say Crime Minister.

WHAT’S WITH THE INSECURITY!
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The Goverment of India is too wooden , too iron ,too inelastic, too antidiluvian to be of any use for modern purpose. The Indian Government is indefensible. It actually and quiet seriously doesn’t care about the population of India.

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Freedom

 

Men! whose boast it is that ye

 

Come of fathers brave and free,

 

If there breathe on earth a slave,

 

Are you truely free and brave?

 

If ye do not feel the chain

 

When it works a brother’s pain

 

Are ye not base slaves indeed

 

Slaves unworthy to be freed?

 

Is true Freedom but to break

 

Fetters for our own dear sake,

 

And , with leathern hearts , forget

 

That we owe mankind a debt?

 

No! true Freedom is to share

 

All the chains our brothers wear ,

 

And, with heart and hand , to be

 

Earnest to make others free!

 

They are slaves who fear to speak

 

For the fallen and the weak;

 

They are slaves who will not choose

 

Hatered, scoffing and abuse,

 

Rather than in silence shrink

 

From the truth they needs must think:

 

They are slaves who dare not be

 

In the right with two or three
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