A Review of Indian Socio-Communist Pearl of Thought

The proverbial hat of C E M Joad I.e. Socialism acquired a unique shape on the heads of Indian Socialist and Communist intellectual leaders. The uniqueness of Indian political thought has been its ability of assimilating and indianising different streams of thought and implementing it within Indian political arena. The firebrand leaders got impressed by Marx, Lenin and Stalin on one hand, classical Socialism and Gandhian ideals on other hand. Coming in power of Samajwadi Party in U P, the largest state in the biggest democracy of the world India, once again brings forth a need for rethinking. It is interesting to evaluate and analyze the manner in which Sociocommunist school of thought has dealt with the phenomenon of violence. Violence, an excessive unrestrained or unjustified force meant to hurt, destroy or control an object or a person has been viewed in the context of power by Lass well, Kaplan, Kaso Ewestein, Paul Wilkinson and even Hobbes.Sigmand Freud identifies it with natural human instinct, whereas Behaviouralists as learned behavior. Marx believed in widespread violence, force and terror. Trotsky furthered the art of insurrection; Mao upheld strategy of terror implicit in Leninism. Sorel believed violence for class war. Gandhiji regarded violence as ‘law of the brute’ like the Christian Anarchists. Thoreau, Tolstoy, Albert Schmeltzer and latest Hennah Arendt think that violence and force must be excluded from the public realm. In this context a review is need of the hour.