Communist Indian Economic Development
The European world has long been obsessed with materialism. India has by contrast, known better, preferring the cultivation of the human spirit and of the human idea, to focus on being and on ethics rather than on the alienating and crushing machine-world which the Occident has created. Indian philosophers have become increasingly popular around the world because of this, and the Western world has itself come to see the errors of its way due to the Weltkrieg. Look at the way in which the machines which humanity created, supposedly to serve itself, became ultimately its masters, killers, slayers - in the trenches of Verdun, the Somme, the massacre of the innocents at Yypres, the Europeans learned much about their foolishness.
And yet, to guard the independence of the Bharatiya Commune, it is necessary for us to build up a more powerful industrial base which can provide for a powerful army to defend ourselves. Furthermore, it is important to expand our economic prosperity, in order to assure the general happiness, peace, and contentedness of our people.
Our revolution is a peasant based one. India is a land which has always been a republic of villages - based on eternal villages which are self-governing and sovereign, whatever may be the ruling empire or foreign power which controls them - and our government is the first one which recognizes this, which places them as the legitimate and formal lower base of society, organizing the Bharatiya Commune into individual communes and villages which constitute the organic and real base of existence. Thus, villages constitute the central aspect of our economic program. A project to improve agriculture with the establishment of agricultural college to enable the diffusion of agricultural knowledge has been implemented, and in the countryside we will be funding the improvement of agricultural land, with additional irrigation works, the establishment of agricultural collectives, provisioning of agricultural machinery, introduction of new breeds and more effective crops, better land drainage, land reclamation, the introduction of better hygiene and housing, dikes, and other efforts which will be conducted by village communes with governmental assistance. This effort will also include the creation of village militia divisions, with fortified villages along the frontiers and with farmer-soldier units for self-defense measures/
In fact, one important element of this peasant effort will be equipping villages with light industry, with encouragement for villages to have rural light industry. Light industry such as textiles, bicycles, toys, leather goods, shoes, furniture, brick plants, jute weaving, and various other consumer products. In doing so, we will be able to take advantage of the large amounts of spare labor which is available to us, and effectively improve peasant livelihoods.
However, there will be the necessity to provide for heavy industry for national defense. Here, fortunately, we have both coal and iron which is a necessity for the production of steel. Projects will be undertaken to expand coal and iron production, as well as steel mills, and with the creation of electrical machinery plants, motor plants, automobile factories, some aircraft factories, train factories, cement and fertilizer plants, oil extraction in Assam, timber mills, shipbuilding, machine tools manufacturing, chemicals production, agricultural tools production, and also armaments factories for things such as artillery, machine guns, rifles, explosives, and other material.
It will be a necessity to have plentiful electrical power for such a project, and electrification of the entire country promises major benefits in regards to the availability of water, agricultural productivity, lighting, medicine, and general happiness. There are two principal ways to generate power, with hydropower and with coal plants. Both are to be expanded, but more effort is to go into the construction of hydropower dams in the mountains and hills of the Commune, such as at Gandki, Obra, Bihand, Hirkund, and Lotak, with associated transmission lines to the principal power-demanding regions of the cities. Rural electrification will be pursued as well. Coal fired power plants will be expanded, utilizing the plentiful coal of Orissa.
Infrastructure to support this is of great necessity. The British left behind a large railroad system, and it is intended that this will be repaired and consolidated where necessary, to better match the need for internal movement of goods rather than simply shipping out the lifeblood of the nation like had occurred under the English. However, there is relatively little need for major expansion, such is the size of the railroad network - if there was one thing that the English did well, it was build railroads, even if it sucked the blood out of the peasants to do so. More effort will go into the construction of canals, roads, and the beginning of an air transport network, and the improvement of ports. This will include the major upgrading of the naval base of Visakhapatnam, intended as the principal fleet base of the Commune's navy, with coastal defenses, repair facilities, submarine bases, shipbuilding facilities, communication devices, docks, warehouses, naval supply and manufacturing assets, dockyards, drydocks, and barracks and various shore establishments.
In order to take advantage of all of this, a more educated populace is needed. In addition to the previously mentioned agricultural colleges, primary education in both the cities and the countryside will be expanded in order to make it fully universal, and in the cities there will be an increase of secondary education. A variety of universities will be expanded to provide for an increased educated class, focusing on science, medicine, engineering, and political education.
In doing this, advisers are being sent from other nations of the Internationale, above all else France and presumably the English, now broken of their chances and no longer our oppressors but rather our friends. Their advice will be important in enabling us to build up our industrial and scientific base in order to rapidly improve our economic condition, to stand bravely against the imperialists and reactionaries that swarm around our borders.
Workers of India, Workers of the World, unite!
And yet, to guard the independence of the Bharatiya Commune, it is necessary for us to build up a more powerful industrial base which can provide for a powerful army to defend ourselves. Furthermore, it is important to expand our economic prosperity, in order to assure the general happiness, peace, and contentedness of our people.
Our revolution is a peasant based one. India is a land which has always been a republic of villages - based on eternal villages which are self-governing and sovereign, whatever may be the ruling empire or foreign power which controls them - and our government is the first one which recognizes this, which places them as the legitimate and formal lower base of society, organizing the Bharatiya Commune into individual communes and villages which constitute the organic and real base of existence. Thus, villages constitute the central aspect of our economic program. A project to improve agriculture with the establishment of agricultural college to enable the diffusion of agricultural knowledge has been implemented, and in the countryside we will be funding the improvement of agricultural land, with additional irrigation works, the establishment of agricultural collectives, provisioning of agricultural machinery, introduction of new breeds and more effective crops, better land drainage, land reclamation, the introduction of better hygiene and housing, dikes, and other efforts which will be conducted by village communes with governmental assistance. This effort will also include the creation of village militia divisions, with fortified villages along the frontiers and with farmer-soldier units for self-defense measures/
In fact, one important element of this peasant effort will be equipping villages with light industry, with encouragement for villages to have rural light industry. Light industry such as textiles, bicycles, toys, leather goods, shoes, furniture, brick plants, jute weaving, and various other consumer products. In doing so, we will be able to take advantage of the large amounts of spare labor which is available to us, and effectively improve peasant livelihoods.
However, there will be the necessity to provide for heavy industry for national defense. Here, fortunately, we have both coal and iron which is a necessity for the production of steel. Projects will be undertaken to expand coal and iron production, as well as steel mills, and with the creation of electrical machinery plants, motor plants, automobile factories, some aircraft factories, train factories, cement and fertilizer plants, oil extraction in Assam, timber mills, shipbuilding, machine tools manufacturing, chemicals production, agricultural tools production, and also armaments factories for things such as artillery, machine guns, rifles, explosives, and other material.
It will be a necessity to have plentiful electrical power for such a project, and electrification of the entire country promises major benefits in regards to the availability of water, agricultural productivity, lighting, medicine, and general happiness. There are two principal ways to generate power, with hydropower and with coal plants. Both are to be expanded, but more effort is to go into the construction of hydropower dams in the mountains and hills of the Commune, such as at Gandki, Obra, Bihand, Hirkund, and Lotak, with associated transmission lines to the principal power-demanding regions of the cities. Rural electrification will be pursued as well. Coal fired power plants will be expanded, utilizing the plentiful coal of Orissa.
Infrastructure to support this is of great necessity. The British left behind a large railroad system, and it is intended that this will be repaired and consolidated where necessary, to better match the need for internal movement of goods rather than simply shipping out the lifeblood of the nation like had occurred under the English. However, there is relatively little need for major expansion, such is the size of the railroad network - if there was one thing that the English did well, it was build railroads, even if it sucked the blood out of the peasants to do so. More effort will go into the construction of canals, roads, and the beginning of an air transport network, and the improvement of ports. This will include the major upgrading of the naval base of Visakhapatnam, intended as the principal fleet base of the Commune's navy, with coastal defenses, repair facilities, submarine bases, shipbuilding facilities, communication devices, docks, warehouses, naval supply and manufacturing assets, dockyards, drydocks, and barracks and various shore establishments.
In order to take advantage of all of this, a more educated populace is needed. In addition to the previously mentioned agricultural colleges, primary education in both the cities and the countryside will be expanded in order to make it fully universal, and in the cities there will be an increase of secondary education. A variety of universities will be expanded to provide for an increased educated class, focusing on science, medicine, engineering, and political education.
In doing this, advisers are being sent from other nations of the Internationale, above all else France and presumably the English, now broken of their chances and no longer our oppressors but rather our friends. Their advice will be important in enabling us to build up our industrial and scientific base in order to rapidly improve our economic condition, to stand bravely against the imperialists and reactionaries that swarm around our borders.
Workers of India, Workers of the World, unite!
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