The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-11


under pressure from Baldwin that
the statement of Lord Irwin meant
not the slightest change in the
Baldwin policy of empty promises
for the indefinite future and con-
tinued colonial oppression.
Cheated By Macdonald, get
faced by the "angry mob" de-
mG'adimg complete indepem-
dence the bourgeoisie at Lahore
had to make 10hat London cyni-
cGlIy termed a political ges-
ture," q maneuvering game
10itb the masses, to adopt indie
pende1ce pOith q ca8trating pro-
viso of 1aon-UioIence and def
erential crawIing "congratuIa-
ton" to Lord IrWin. Through
this and their Joint interests,
the Indian bowgeoisie will
again be found Nth the
'Iabor'' imperialists against the
masses of India.
Right, Left" and Center" in
the Bourgeois Camp
In their complicated dealings
with the Empire and with the
masses, the beourgeoisie is COM
PEELED to organize itself on the
basis of division of labor" For
the negotiations with London, there
is the Right Wing advocates of
Dominion status" headed by the
elder Nehru (Motil Lall); for the
beheading of the mass movement,
there is the cleft" wing of radical
phrases, headed by his son, Java
har Lall Nehru; while the role of
center is played for the moment by
the extreme rightwig "holy man."
Gandhi, who betrayed India once
before in moment of revolution
airy upheaval.
In the Nehru family we thus
find embodied not only the CONTRA
dictions within the bourgeoisie, but
also the Reconciliation" of these
contradictions-not only the anti
thesis, but also the synthesis.
While the symbolism of Christian
ity may be somewhat out of place
when applied to the Hindu, one is
tempted to compare the mystical
unity of this trinity with the faith
er, son, and the holy ghost of our
Western bourgeoisie; the elder and
younger Nehru and Gandhi are,
otherwise than the accident of
geography, ideally cast for the
roles. Like the Christian Trinity,
which embodies at once the contra
dictions and the unity of Godhead,
these gentlemen embody the con-
traditions among themselves and
unity against the proletariat of the
Indian bourgeoisie.
Jawahar Lall Nehru the younger,
is man of many talents. He can
run the gamut of politics and poll
teal organizations quicker and with
more aplomb than any other living
Indian. A year ago, after visit
to the Soviet Union, he was an
nouncing himself as a Communist.
A few months later, running for
the post of chairman of the Work
ers-Peasants Party of the United
Provinces, he came out in defense
of the rents of the landlords,
against program of confiscation
of property, and labelled himself
a socialist. A little later he was
the candidate of the rightwing in
the Trade Union Congress in Jha-
ria, as the only one who could beat
the Communist candidate, a worker
whom he defeated by only a few
votes. Now at Lahore he pro-
claimed himself Socialist republi-
can"
And when he is at home, no
doubt, he is neither more nor less
than an admiring and dutiful son
of his father, the author of the
Dominion status" scheme. Truly
the ways of Allah" are mysterious
and wonderful, as we'll as devious,
but not more so than those of a
bourgeois politician in a colonial
country which is ripe for revolu-
ton.
"HoIv Man, Candb;