India's Will to Freedom: Writings and Speeches on the Present Situation |
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Page 174 - The Government of India wants us to swallow the first kind of truth without knowing the other side. Unfortunately for us truth is no longer truth : It is qualified by capitalism and imperialism on the one hand and socialism on the other. It is either capitalistic or bourgeois or socialistic. In order to know the whole truth one has to know all the three brands and then use his judgment.
Page 164 - The workers of Europe and America have now discovered that the cause of the workers is one and the same all the world over, and that there can be no salvation for them unless and until the workers of Asia were organised, and internationally affiliated.
Page 62 - It is an achievement unique in our history, nay even in the history of the world. It has raised the political consciousness of the country by one big leap and also raised the country in the estimation of the world. Passive resistance ought to be resorted to with great care and caution. It should not be allowed to descend to the level of the ridiculous. But when after wise calculation it is decided to have recourse to it, every one should be prepared for casualties.
Page 26 - ... words. Facts are facts and they must be faced. We yield to none in our desire to see our country free, absolutely free. But our conception of freedom perhaps differs from that of both the Moderates and the Extremists. The Moderates want colonial self-government by steps, and so do the Extremists. They differ on steps. Both are prepared to agree to the overwhelming preponderance of power which the holders of property, the possessors of special privileges would maintain in their respective schemes...
Page 165 - ... wastefulness and jealousy of a foreign bureaucracy, placed in a condition of abject dependence by the military exigencies of a capitalistic autocracy, kept apart by the artfulness of resourceful despotism, labour in this country is in greater need of joint action, and of freedom from provincial and district rivalries than anywhere else. District organisations cannot be effective unless they are protected from the rivalry of men from the other districts. For this purpose are needed provincial...
Page 167 - But when it enters into calculation for ascertaining the proper salary of a postman, or a telegraph peon, or an orderly, or a Railway porter, or signaller, it not only disregards all these considerations, but is mean enough to bring into account the earnings of his wife and his minor children.
Page 11 - Rule. A superman might gloat over the spectacle of the conquest of might over justice and righteousness, but I am much mistaken if the British nation, fighting now as ever for the cause of justice and freedom and liberty, will consider it as other than discreditable to itself that after nearly two centuries of British Rule, India has been brought to-day to the same emasculated condition as...
Page 171 - Nations, which held its first sitting at Washington DC in November 1919, and to express its considered opinion relating thereto. The congress will also have to select its accredited representatives to represent them in the coming conference, and to place its views before that body. Our past experience is that the government of India, however well-intentioned some of its individual officers and statesmen may be, is, because of its constitution, capitalistic in its sympathies and outlook.
Page 160 - Permit me to thank you from the bottom of my heart for the honour you have done me by asking me to preside over this first session of the All-India Trade Union Congress.
Page 170 - Capital is organised on a world- wide basis; it is backed up by a financial and political strength beyond conception; its weapons are less perishable than those employed by labour, it presents dangers which apply universally." In order to meet these dangers, Indian labour will have to join hands with labour outside India also, but its first duty is to organise itself at home.