Bhagat Singh was not a mere revolutionary who threw a bomb out of some misguided sense of self righteousness. He was well versed in Marxist ideas and wrote this letter to profess the theory of Communism to the masses. He trivialized the freedom struggle of Congress as a movement by the middle class shopkeepers and a few capitalists, as they can never dare to risk its property or possessions in any struggle. In the paragraph below he explained that the real revolutionary armies are in the villages and in factories, the peasantry and the laborers and the bourgeois leaders do not and cannot dare to tackle them.

“The sleeping lion once awakened from its slumber shall become irresistible even after the achievement of what our leaders aim at. After his first experience with the Ahmedabad labourers in 1920 Mahatma Gandhi declared: “We must not tamper with the labourers. It is dangerous to make political use of the factory proletariat” (The Times, May 1921). Since then, they never dared to approach them. There remains the peasantry. The Bardoli resolution of 1922 clearly denies the horror the leaders felt when they saw the gigantic peasant class rising to shake off not only the domination of an alien nation but also the yoke of the landlords.”

Bhagat Singh wanted a Socialist revolution as opposed to a mere transfer of State from the British to the Indians. He wanted a revolution of the proletariat and for the proletariat. He wanted economic liberty of the masses, and for that very purpose he was striving to win the political power. He emphasized the need to organize a military department which should be a political work of the party, not an independent body.

Long live Bhagat Singh!

Long live revolution!!