India And Communism

ইন্ডিয়া অ্যান্ড কমিউনিজম

Author/লেখক: B R Ambedkar • বি আর আম্বেদকর
Category/বিভাগ: Essays
প্রবন্ধ
Publisher/প্রকাশক: Left Word Books
লেফটওয়ার্ড বুকস
Language/ভাষা: Bengali - বাংলা
First Publication Year/প্রথম প্রকাশ: 2017 • ২০১৭
Publication Year/প্রকাশ: 2017
Edition/সংস্করণ: 1
Binding/বাঁধাই: Paperback • পেপারব্যাক
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Number of Pages/পাতা: 155
Price/মূল্য: ₹ ~~225~~
Discounted Price/বর্তমান মূল্য: ₹ 202

Few words on India And Communism | ইন্ডিয়া অ্যান্ড কমিউনিজম

B R Ambedkar (1891 - 1956) was one of the most radical thinkers of India. Those who think that Babasaheb Ambedkar was against Communism or Marxism are grossly prejudiced. Ambedkar’s relationship with Marxism was enigmatic, though he defined himself as a socialist, not a Marxist. But he was impressed by the dynamism of the Marxist tradition. However, it is also true that he had serious reservations about accepting certain theoretical postulations of Marxism. In the early 1950s, Ambedkar started work on a book he wanted to call ‘India and Communism’. The book was never finished. This present volume assembles what survives of that book, along with a section of another unfinished book, ‘Can I be a Hindu?’ Anand Teltumbde, in his hard-hitting Introduction, charts the course of Ambedkar’s thinking on Communism and Marxism, the historical reasons for the rift between him and the Communists, and the basis on which a larger unity of the followers of Ambedkar and Communists can be forged. This unity, Teltumbde argues, is an essential pre-requisite for the emancipation of India’s poor and oppressed. This book is an eye-opener.