rammanohar lohya: crisis of modern civilisation
the crisis of modern civilisation by pv kurian begins
Sunday, August 17, 2008
preface
Promising beginnings often end in grotesque disappointments . This has been my fate and the fate of millions of my countrymen and the idealists all over the world. 20thcentury began reverbrating with revolutionary slogans of the students and youth in the streets of Beijing under the inspiration of Dr.Sunyatsan.. Its adloscence was marked with the women workers of petrograd without organisation and leadership forcing the all powerful Russian Tsar to abdicate in february 1917 followed by octobr revolution under Lenin and Trotsky.In the twenties at century saw awakening of the mute and hungry millions of India chalanged the mighty British empire under the leadrship of `halfnaked fakir- Mahathma Gandhi.' in the end of thirties the socialists the communists, the idealists and the democrats of europe fought the spanish civil war against fascism. But the century which witnessed these four great revolution came to an unrevolutionary and tragic end. A unicentral world dominated by American dollars and nuclear bomb has ultimately emerged.Areas of darkness are spreading .why these four revolutions did fail. The intellectuals has not applied his mind to this great question. He has taken things for granted. If this book creats in his mind a ripple of doubt and makes him question the tenets of this civilisation I will feel more than rewarded.
P.V. Kurian
P.V. Kurian
about the auther
P.V.kurian came to the national movement when he was a student in 1938. He was later the secretary of Forward Block in Travancore. In the orties he joined the socialist movement and was one of the founder members of the congresssocialist party in travancore. In subsequest years he stood with Dr. Lohya .On Lohia's death he continued to work for the propogation of Lohiz's ideas.kurian ,a front ranking socialist thinker of kerala has many books to his credit including his magnus opus : Dr Ram Manohar Lohya The Universal Revolutionary.PV kuryan was a socialist. not a janatha socialist.Dr.Ram Manohar lohya inter preted socialism in a new way . P.V. Kurian carried forward that tradition in his frequent writings in malayalam. He wa also an activist; he was able to indoctrinate a section of the youth in his state.
rammanohar lohya: crisis of modern civilisation
rammanohar lohya: crisis of modern civilisation
the crisis of modern civilisation by pv kurian begins
the crisis of modern civilisation by pv kurian begins
rammanohar lohya: crisis of modern civilisation
rammanohar lohya: crisis of modern civilisation
the crisis of modern civilisation by pv kurian begins
the crisis of modern civilisation by pv kurian begins
crisis of modern civilisation
every one saying now a days that all is not well with the modern civilisation. That is neither here nor there. The question is : has it failed? where has it failed? why? The intellectual has not applied his mind to this great question. He has taken things for granted. This has been my fate and fate of millions of my countrymen and the idealists all over the world. In his book crisis of modern civilisation Mr. P.V.Kuriantry to reply to the fore going questions. H has made masterly survey of the five to six centuries of modern European history,and analysed its most silent events, often going to their roots. what he finds is that the modern civilisation is no doubt a grand show .Its accomplishments are near miraculous. Its achievement., however,is nil. Judging from the point of view of the interests of mankid as awhole , it has not been able to solve a single problem that besets humanity. The problems of hunger, lack of housing, lack of peaceand security for the ordinary man, and specialythose of women,are nowhere vear solution.some of these problems ,like hunger, have as a matter of fact become worse,and the number of people affecyed is ever increasing.Can anybody refute the auther's statement that compares to earlier civilisations more people are underfed in the present world?
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