द इण्डियन स्ट्रगल / भारतीय स्वाधीनता संग्राम (नेताजी सुभाष चन्द्र बोस - ऐतिहासिक विश्लेषण)

348 THE INDIAN STRUGGLE aspects. For instance, so far as the monetary problem is concerned, Communism has made no new contribution, but has merely followed traditional economics. Recent ex- periences, however, indicate that the monetary problem of the world is still far from being satisfactorily solved. While, therefore, it would be safe to predict that India will not become a new edition of Soviet Russia, one may say with equal strength that all the modern socio-political movements and experiments in Europe and in America will have con- siderable influence on India's development. Of late, India has been taking and in future will continue to take, more and more interest in what goes on in the outside world. To come back to the Congress. The present controversy between Mahatma Gandhi and Pandit Madan Mohon Mala- viya is of passing interest as the issue is a very minor one. Neither the Congress Nationalist Party nor the official Con- gress Parliamentary Party has a rôle to play in future, because both of them are heterogeneous parties without any clear ideology or programme. It only remains to consider the future of Gandhiism in India. It has been urged sometimes that Gandhiism is an alternative to Communism. This idea is, in the opinion of the writer, erroneous. Mahatma Gandhi has given the country—(and may be, the world) a new method —the method of passive-resistance or Satygraha or non-violent non-co-operation. He has not given his country or humanity a new programme of social reconstruction as Communism has —and the alternative to Communism can be only another theory of social reconstruction. No doubt, the Mahatma has condemned the ‘machine civilisation’ of the modern world and has eulogised the good old days when men were content with their cottage industries and their wants were few. But that is a personal belief or idiosyncrasy. Whenever he has expounded the contents of Swaraj, he has spoken in the language of Mid-Victorian Parliamentarian Democracy and of traditional capitalist economics. The ‘Eleven Points’ which he enunciated in 1930 as connoting his ‘substance of independence,’ will be unreservedly accepted by any Indian industrial magnate. One could therefore say that the Mahatma does not intend pulling down the modern industrial structure