அறிஞர் அண்ணாவின் முதல் ஆங்கிலக் கட்டுரை

அண்ணா அவர்கள் கல்லூரி மாணவராக இருந்த நேரத்தில்,
1933-ல், மே தினத்தைப் பற்றி எழுதிய
முதல் ஆங்கிலக் கட்டுரை.

MOSCOW Mob Parade
(This is the first article written by Perarignar Anna, When he was a student of the Panchaiyappa’s College, in 1933, which was published in the College Magazine)

MEET a Soviet citizen and ask him what is the meaning of all the noise that he makes - why, seek Stalin himself and put him the same question. “Oh! it is a mighty world revolution against capitalism! Damn it! We crushed it. Yet we want to wipe it out of the face of the earch” would Staling or the Soviet thunder forth.

Communism is Leninism; Leninism is applied Marxism. Arm chair critics may brand Marx as a dreamy politician and destructive economist. Some considered him as revolution personified. To the ‘Proletarian world’, however, he is a demi God. His works, ‘Capital’ and ‘Communist Manifesto’ are the two testaments to the proletarian. The melody of Marx, was so sweet, so nice, so hope-giving that the labourer became crazy when he heard and reheard it. It made him a devil of course, but in the course of his devilish dance, he did vanquish the demon of capitalizm.

Karl Marx was not a proletariat. In fact the English Fabian Society tried to brand him bourgeois, son of a rich Jewish lawyer of Rhenist Germany. Marx had facilities for a sound education. His suscentibit mind had been greatly nimpressed by the cunning, cruelty and ambition of the capitalist class. He brought to light borrible yet sober facts about the evils of capitalism. Just as Jean Jacpues Rousseau’s winged doctrines of Equality--Liberty--Fraternity--so also Marx’s ‘Capital’ supplied the theory of Surplus value’ which forms the backbone of Socialism of various types. Marx did not get reputatics for nothing.

Labour is the chief source of production of wealth. Without recognising the fact, the Capitalist robs the labourers, forces him to live in slums, and dictates him to be content with a very small shareed in a shilling according to Marx. “Capitalists are human parasite vultures who live upon the flesh of the labourers’, said Karl Marx in his piping voice. Accumulation of wealth and the subsequent utilisation of the same by righ capitalists, are not an increase in the National Divident, for the same could satisfy more intense wants of the labourer and thus could be better utilised. But the ratio of distribution is unjustly proportioned.

That Capitalizm is the apotheosis of civilisation is the do*** of some. They argue that since Capitalist gives employment to the labourer, he helps society substantially. So a capitalist is not a human parasite but a benefactor and capitalism should not be concerned but ought to be welcomed. Any elementary book on economic will tell us that Land, labour, Capital and Organization are the four agents of production. It is true to say that Capital is as necessaryn for production, as labour is. But the problem is, which of these deserves more consideration. A labourer works hard but the direction comes from the Capitalist. Whether the concern gets profit or not, a labourer gets his annas and never cares for either the prosperity of the Capitalist or the comfort of the consumer. whereas, the Capitalist spends sleepless aights in devising plans, and determining the nature and quantity of the demand that is likely to arise. Failure means to him not only a risk of parting with his capital, but also a good-bye to honour. A failure means an ‘I.P.’ and it is by no means a decent degree. So when through his efforts, the Capitalist gets profit he demands a greater share in it. Or, when the Capitalist is not capable of ‘brainwork’, he hires the services of a ‘D.Com’ and shares the profit with that organiser.

Bearded Bernard shaw of ‘Apple cart fame shattered the first argument. Want you the praise the Capitalist? Say you that since he gives employment to the labourer he ought to be honoured? It is bunkum: A motore driver by killing a man gives ample opportunity to the departments of ;olice and Judiciary not to mention his greatservice to sensation spreaders’. Why, then should we not raise a marble stature in his honour?” questions the dramptist. In fact Capitalists give employment, but never enjoyment to the labourers. They make life a bed of thorns.

the Socialists, as Dr.Marshall ponts out, were men who had felt stensely and who knew something about the hidden spring of human action of which the economist took an account. Buried among their wild rhapsodies, says the same author, there were shrewd observations and pregnant suggestions from which philosophers and economists had much to learn. In the Parliament, in the press and the pulpit, the spirit of humanity, of erring suffering humanity was to be found. Careful diagniosis will show that in the womb of our modern society, slumbers the awfully bad child of revolution, ready for its birth. When Karl Marx, the illustrious theorist of the proletariat’; said the private property in Capital was both the result of past spoliation and a means of continuing the same upon the wider scale, he was only epitomising the cries of the oppressed Robert Owen, a century before Marx, who thundered foth that what the Capitalist calls ‘Profits’ and which economists try to defend was the fundamental cause for all kinds of economic and social ills. Justice demands, a faith consideration and adaptation of atleast some of these non aggressive and salient facts.

Capital is essential, but not Capitalism, Even Capital is, to quote Panson ‘Labour stored up’, the division of society into rich and poor is the root cause for all the subsequent evils. Are we nto witnessing--the spectacle of poverty amidst plenty? Is is right for a fashioable young bachelor to spend lots upon ‘suits’ in continental hotels, and upon Parisian beauties, while a widow works har do bring up six naughty children-getting for her labour less than a shilling per week? Do we not realise that the very structure of society is hollow, unsound and inhuman? Then why should we shirk to find solace in the socialist doctrine? Industrial organisation of the Capitalists. is nothing but outrageous robbery. Given proper facilities, and allowed to move in a good atmosphere, Tom and Harry could manage things as well as jones or Smith, for human nature is greatly modified by environment.

Honey and milk run abundantly because of his labour, ‘Ironkings’ and ‘Lacequeens’ are having a ‘tete-a-tete’ in a fashionable night club and the labourer witnesses the ‘tete-tete of his hungry children and bony wife. This kind of intensified capitalism gave birth to socialism. The literary prophets first revolutionised the mind of the labourer. Passing from the cold and calm realm of speculation, the socialist theories, found a place in a revolutionary realm. The proletariat agitated. Lenin came! From out of the womb of agitation, was born the naughty child of revolution. Powers which were passionately stirred, when unchained caused a revolutionary eruption. Law became impotent. ‘Necessity knows no ;aw’ said Niebutin, and it became only too true.

Angered by hunger, oppressed by tyranny, the proletarian rose with irresistible force; down came capitalism, and the flag of the labourer was planted.

The period of ‘smoke and blood’ passed away. The prior of construction came. With equal force, did he launch socialism. The process of socialization of the means of production, distribution and exchange and exchange was adopted. The spirit of brotherhood and goodwill was set up as the ideal. The motto of St.Paul ‘He that will not work, shall not eat’ was applied. Plato’s visualisation, became practicable. The Russians are not making a new pilgrim’s progress to a land, where all would be happy, and all would be equals.

But the world brands the Russian as a savage; his methods are condemned and his policy is mocked at. Till recently America refused to take Russian timber on the gournd that their production involved forced labour. The leading capitalistic nations find an absence of Christian ethics in everythin Russian. But why all this accusation? Socialists allow no illegal marriage, they recognise the right of divorce, gie economic basis to every individual, and look to labour as a dignified method of living. Palaces and pleasure-seats of plutocrats are kept wide open for the enjoyment of the labourers. The educatonal side of socialism won the approval of no less a person that Dr. Tagore. Then what need is there, for accusing that system? Is it because the communists drove out idle lords and extravagant ladies? Is it because they adopted certain cruel methods during the wat with capitalism?

Time is the great healer and it would certainly modify things. Anarchy being a negation of all laws could not remain permanent and since socialism stands today firmly, it is not anarchism as some suppose it to be. Paul Vinogradoff, a moderate, assures us that “they (Russians) will throw the whole weight of their influence in the scale of international pacification and justice”.

The socialistic idea is not Russian in origin. the Fabian society was started in London and Marx spend his last years by the side of the Thames. The presence of the I.L. Party, the various labourer organisations, and strikes go to prove that the labourer of todya is not content with his lot. Without spending years in condemning Communistic methods, the Capitalistic countries, if they try to solve the labour problem, by extending State control over branches of industry, by suppressing ‘rectapism’ by recognising the potentialities of labourers, they would not only get the laudation from labourers, but could found a paradise upon this earth. Moswow Mob Parade, with all its grain facts in worthy of study, and is a veritable warning to humanity at large, and more than that, it is capable of yielding morals of no mean order.

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