like many societies at pre-revolution stage, indian society too is sectarian, reactionary, capitalist and non-contributing, which is why the intelligentsia is always the vanguard of progressive change... a revolution always starts in the ideas of one or two or ten people and then grows into a critical mass.
fortunately, india already has progressive movements but with different ideologies or conflicting paths... these are mainly the true socialist groups and the "aam aadmi party"... apologies to
@jbgt90 that i don't include the congress (
) even though nehru in his contradictory way initiated a somewhat progressive environment that contributed to things like setting up of progressive institutions like jnu.
the work for the true patriot would be in joining these movements and the work for these movements would be to unite under a common progressive banner... if you think you can better these movements, join them and prove it to them.
lastly, to quote edward abbey, a american author, essayist, socialist and anarchist - "a patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government".
he was one of the greatest leaders and revolutionaries in history... i say this with confidence despite a biography of him lying with me mostly unread for months.
1954 onwards, he engaged in socialist participation, initially preparing and training and soon the armed struggle, the cuban revolution, then as a statesman traveling all over the world to assist and inspire various peoples in resisting capitalist imperialism and to forward the cause of a just world, then back to armed struggle until his murder in 1967.
this was his death
[1]...
i didn't know until i began preparing this post that he had come to india in july 1959... not many people would know of this... below are some photos of that visit...
@Aminroop
more photos here
[2].
such also is the situation in the west
[3]...
yes, there are no longer famous transnational individual revolutionaries ( the last of them was carlos ) and some socialist states have fallen ( the last was libyan jamahiriya ) but capitalist imperialism still exists and resistance to that still continues ( example, why do you think the patriotic syrians are still defending against nato's thousands of terrorists on the eve of the sixth year of the war )??
yes, in india from 1989 to until last year in most states we were generally bereft of socialist/progressive agitations in colleges, offices and streets... the bombay film industry no longer has people of hard-socialism background like balraj sahni, a.k.hangal and utpal dutt... but one must be thankful to bjp government for reigniting the progressive and revolt spirit among the intellectuals and the intelligentsia.
much better than above are these words from
[3] again...
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[1]
Che Guevara - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[2]
Photos: When Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara visited India
[3]
ON DEFENDING CHE GUEVARA & CHE’S MOST IMPORTANT SPEECH | Act of Defiance