progressive thoughts and political
consciousness. They created a
revolutionary impact throughout
the country. But yet they could not
be the motive force leading the
Chinese revolution to success.
A trend in Student movement
Some politicians have, of late,
raised such slogans - students,
leave the educational institutions;
go to villages; mix with the
peasants; propagate politics of
revolution. These cannot be done
by attending schools and colleges.
So, go to villages by leaving
schools, colleges and universities.
This system of education is the
fulcrum of this decaying society. So
it must be destroyed. Boycott
examinations.
Are such slogans correct? Tw o
things must be examined to find out
whether a slogan is correct or
wrong. First, why is a slogan being
given? And secondly, when is the
slogan being given?
1. Why will a student cadre be
sent to the village or to the working
class? Communists should be, at
the same time, both a student and
a teacher. To teach revolutionary
theory to the masses one must
become a student as well of the
masses. Then only can one qualify
himself for propagating revolu-
tionary theory and become an
organiser. So while trying to
disseminate the theory of
revolution, he must stay with them,
must share the stresses and
strains of their life. This is why he
should live among the peasant in
villages and among the workers in
cities. And as the peasantry
constitute by far the greatest
numerical strength in the
revolutionary camp. It is necessary
to place large number of political
cadres in the rural belt. Herein lays
the
urgency
of
sending
revolutionary intellectuals in large
numbers to the villages. The work
requires patience and theoretical
knowledge. Time as well as
adequate training is needed for
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this. But why are the students being
sent to villages now by giving
“leave the colleges” slogan? They
are being sent to participate in
operation extermination. The idea
of those people who are giving this
slogan to leave educational
institutions, is that the local
reactionaries must be killed one by
one by secret guerrilla units and
only in this way can the local
people be awakened. These
extermination operations are being
called “actions”. Students are
being sent to villages to lead and
participate in these actions, and not
to preach revolutionary theories, or
build a revolutionary party or mass
organisation. This theory of action
is against the “people’s war” theory
of comrade Mao Tse-tung. Leave
the colleges will not be a
revolutionary slogan if the students
are asked to go to villages for this
action.
Another thing must be made
clear. Those who are going to
villages may do so by revolutionary
impulse. But they cannot do
serious revolutionary work if they
do not acquire complete
competence for this. To build up
revolutionary struggle and
organisation is a tough job. Strong
determination, patience, courage
and correct theoretical knowledge
are needed for this. It must be seen
whether a cadre possesses these
qualities before sending him to
build up revolutionary organi-
sations in village or in a workers’
colony. If he does not have these
qualifications he will do harm
instead of doing good. Revolu-
tionary organisation cannot build
only with revolutionary impulse.
The first necessity for the
success of revolution is the
existence of a real communist
party. The revolutionary forces are
rising in India with a tremendous
speed. These forces fail to
proceed in the proper way for the
absence of a correct leadership of
a party. There exists much
theoretical confusion in the
revolutionary camp. The revolution
is not proceeding along the correct
line as a result of wrong application
of correct theories or application of
incorrect theories. And no real
revolutionary Party has emerged as
yet. When there is no real party,
the main task should be to strive
to build up a real party and not to
send student cadres indiscrimi-
nately to rural areas en masse.
Ideological battle must be carried
on in building up the party,
relentless theoretical war must be
continued against all sorts of
deviations. At the same time, every
revolutionary cadre must take part
in all class struggles and mass
movements. Through all these
works a revolutionary leadership
will emerge and develop.
Only a revolutionary party
leadership can send bathes of
students in a planned manner to
participate in movements on
necessary occasions and can
direct them properly under the
control of the leadership. When
even this primary revolutionary
work is not done the slogan of
leaving schools and colleges is not
only a deviation from revolutionary
politics, but is also a slogan to
create chaos and anarchy among
the student community. The
student community can be
consistent in the revolution only
when the basic masses carry on an
uninterrupted
revolutionary
struggle. The students of
Telangana can out of their
educational institutions in 1949
and participated in the movement
along with the peasants only after
the peasantry carried on their
struggle to the optimum. Of course,
students have work to do at the first
stage of revolution. Advanced
students with revolutionary political
consciousness and character will
definitely go to villages in a planned
way to awaken the peasants with
revolutionary politics. They will unite
with the workers in cities to organise
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