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Infidels,
Freethinkers, Humanists, and Unbelievers |
Roy,
Manabendra Nath (1887 - 1954) |
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| Manabendra
Nath Roy was an outstanding international personality of the modern
age. Roy was born as Narendranath Bhattacharya. He had a leading
role in revolutionary movements in India, Mexico, the Middle East,
the Soviet Union, Indonesia and China. Like Marx he was both and
activist and a phisopher; in fact Lenin called him "the Oriental
Marx". |
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Roy tried
to organize an armed insurrection in India in 1915; founded the
Communist Party of Mexico (1919) and the emigre Communist Party
of India in Tashkent (1920); rose to occupy the highest offices
of the Communist International and led the Commintern's delegation
to China (1927). At the same time he authored such Marxist classics
as India in Transition (1922), The Future of Indian Politics (1926)
and Revolution and Counter-revolution in China (1930); and founded
the organ of the emigre Communist Party of India, The Vanguard (and
later The Masses) and edited it for seven years (1922-28).
Roy broke with the Communist International
in 1929 having publicly opposed the extreme left sectarian policy
adopted at its Sixth Congress. Returning to India he spent six
years in various prisons during which he wrote a 3000-page draft
manuscript provisionally titled "The Philosophocal Consequence
of Modern Science". On his release he campaigned against
every variety of authoritarianism, supported the anti-fascist
war, drew up a Draft Constitution for free India and the outlines
of a decentralist people's plan for economic development.
Disillusioned
with both bourgeois democracy and communism, he devoted the last
years of his life to the formulation of an alternative philosophy
which he called Radical Humanism and of which he wrote a detailed
exposition in Reason, Romanticism and Revolution. |
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