The New Revolution

Preface

The New Revolution is a series of essays and articles that have been collated to define the nature of a new Democratic People’s Republic of India. This democratic republic is a vision for a Socialist nation of the previously Bourgeois Liberal Democracy of India in a post-Revolutionary framework and covers the economic, social and political economic policies for the nation.

The New Revolution aims to establish a Socialist Government with the ultimate aim of establishing a Communist state in the first stage – which is defined as a state that reaches the stage of abundance in production, State control of the means of production, and the objective of reaching the next stage of human development of all of mankind.

Readers must note that there is no fixed method to enacting a Revolution itself as the material conditions on the ground and the strength of the Workers movement must be carefully judged before the call to armed revolt is given.

Why a Revolution?

History is witness not to the need of revolution itself but rather to its inevitability. It is through the route of revolution that societies globally have enacted the paradigm shifts in their political economy and ensured the progression of modernity. The History of Revolutions hitherto have so far been the histories of the revolts against the ruling classes when they have attempted to change the mode of production, accumulation of profit and capital, and, subsequently, their control of the state.

Most readers will not be familiar with Revolutions as the last major revolutions that have taken place in the world have been pre-WW2 phenomena. While there have been revolutionary movements at the smaller scale in South America, Nepal, and even North Africa, they have all failed to make the paradigm shift out of a Bourgeois Democratic framework and have instead made peace with a change to a more social democratic framework in Nepal, a less imperialist Govt in Venezuela, and a change from sham democracies to Bourgeois Democracies in the Arab Spring countries. One must also not ignore the Revolutions in countries such as Iran that have had anti-imperialist, theocratic revolutions back in the 70s that enabled a transfer of power from pro-imperialist monarchies to theocratic Sharia rule.

So, the big quagmire for the 21^st century generation and millennials in general will be Why Revolution? Revolution must be seen in its context of a change of power from a ruling elite back to the People always. It is not the same or analogous to democratic elections; Elections only change the Faces, Revolutions change Systems. It is absolutely vital for a Revolution to take place for Democracy to exist in the first place, it is also a Revolution that is required to transfer the Democratic power from the ruling elites to the People, which is essentially the Dialectic of Political economy and the advance and evolution of a nation. This is essentially what Liberal Govts of today are fighting against as it is in their best interests to not allow the status quo to change.