Marx said “capitalism will increase the economic impoverishment of the proletariat so rapidly that they will be forced to make the social revolution just to stay alive — they probably wouldn’t even get to the point of worrying that much about self-activity.” I am not a critic of capitalism. But I believe that in present-day conditions, the association of common people with insurgent forces is a result of their effort to just stay alive.

Ghanendra K. Nath,

New Delhi

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