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The Betrayers of India
| Author(s) | Leon Trotsky |
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| Written | 4 March 1939 |
In this issue we are printing an article by Stanley on the political situation in India. The article very cogently lays b are the oppressive policy that British "democracy" pursues in order to bar democracy in India. The population of England is 40 million; the population of India 370 million. In order to maintain democracy in an imperialist nation of 40 million, a nation of 370 million must be stifled. Such is the essence of imperialist democracy.
Only a victorious revolution can liberate India. The Indian bourgeoisie, closely- tied to British capital, fears revolution. The Indian bourgeois intelligentsia fears its own bourgeoisie. Instead of preparing for a popular revolution, these gentlemen constantly advocate the same old "Popular Front,â i.e., a union of the frightened liberals with the frightened democrats of various hues. In this work, the Stalinists, of course, are in the forefront. In order to put a brake on the revolutionary movement of the masses against the direct and immediate enemy â British imperialism â these gentlemen conduct agitation against â the danger from Japan. With such methods they hope to win the sympathy of the British slaveholders for democracy in India, and at the same time for â Stalin, who is dreaming of an alliance with the British bourgeoisie. The colonial peoples are small change in the Bonapartist oligarchy's reckonings with the imperialist democracies.