Bhagat Singh and his Revolutionary ideas

Bhagat Singh and his comrades also gave expression to their understanding the revolution meant the development and organization of a mass movement of the exploited and suppressed sections of the society. Just before his execution he said "the revolutionary are in villages and factories". In a letter from jail he wrote "Peasants have to liberate themselves not only from the foreign yoke but also from the landlords and capitalists. In his last message of 1931, he declared that struggle in India would continue so long as "a handful of exploiters go on exploiting the labour of common people for their own ends. It matters little whether these exploiters are British capitalists or British and Indians in alliance, purely Indians. Bhagat Singh defined socialism in a scientific way. It means abolition of capitalism and class domination. He fully accepted Marxism and the class approach to society. Infact he saw himself above all as a precursor and not a maker of revolution, as a propagator of the ideas of socialism and communism, as a humble initiator of the socialist movement in India.

Bhagat Singh was a great innovator in two areas of politics. Being fully consciously secular, he understood more clearly that communalism is the major danger posed to the nation and the national movement. He often told his audience that communalism is as danger as colonialism.

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