We are giving below the Radical Humanist vision:
“Fascism today, under varying euphemistic concealment, stands as the consolidation of all the barriers to social progress. Its psychological foundations are fear, unreason, groove-habit and surrender to group homogeneity, which are all expressions of the moral and intellectual inertia of the common man. Its political expression is the totalitarian state in which all power is concentrated in the hands of a few representatives of the social vested interests, and in which all possibility of individual freedom is purposively eliminated. Its economy is that of monopoly production or sheer destruction, and delimitation of consumption through control of wages - in short, an economy of contraction. In it technology is employed to the purpose of war and mass – conditioning. All creative endeavour is under ban.
The method and program of social revolution today must be based on a reassertion of the basic principles of social progress. The method falls into two parts. The first is that of social renaissance, which can only come through determined and widespread endeavour to educate the people in the principles of freedom and rational co-operative living. Large-scale creative propaganda to counteract the goose step method of the fascists is thus of supreme importance. Simultaneously with it, there is the necessity of organizing the people into effective democratic bodies, on the one hand to resist the institutional units of Fascism at every step and, on the other, to build up the socio-political foundation of the post – revolutionary order. Social revolution today requires, in rapidly increasing number, men of the new Renaissance and a rapidly expanding system of people’s committees, and an organic co-ordination of both. The process of automatic structural groupings (e.g. the formation of class bodies) shall have to be integrated in the democratic institution of the people’s committees.
The program of revolution (which means the draft plan of the new society) shall have similarly to be based on the principles of freedom, reason and social harmony. Negatively, this will mean elimination of every form of monopoly and vested interest in the regulation of social life. The new economy will be based on production for use and distribution with reference to human, and not merely effective, demand. Its political organization will be based on the direct participation of the entire adult population in the running of institutional life, and not on mere delegation of power. Its surplus will be canalized to consumption through free universal utility services. Its culture will be based on universal irradiation of knowledge, and on minimum control and maximum scope and incentive to scientific and creative activity. The new society, being based on reason and science, will necessarily be planned. But it will be planning with the freedom of the individual as its main purpose. The new society will be democratic, politically, economically, as well as culturally. Consequently, it will be democracy that can defend itself."
Sibnarayan Ray
pp. 63 – 64, essay:“Radicalism as a Philosophy of Revolution in our Times”
Book: Ripeness is All- Reflections of A Radical Humanist
Renaissance Publishers Private limited
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