2. What you can do to bring Socialism A few suggestions Centre for Socialist Studies Bangalore

3. Socialist movement has taken India a long way towards Socialism…

4. India’s Greatest Achievement According to GINI Democratic India has achieved greater equality than Communist China

5. You are fortunate to be born in free India

6. You are even more fortunate that you are living in a democratic India

7. Now on it is your responsibility to take India onwards to Socialism

8. It is your responsibility to preserve and promote democracy and make it more meaningful

9. You have to save our democracy from the influence of money and liquor

10. You should ensure that those who deserve to be in jail are not elected

11. Rural and Urban local bodies should be made into units of government

12. Gram Sabhas should be conducted more meaningfully so that all people participate in it

13. India had four classes in rural areas : Land Lords, Tenants, Farmers and Farm workers

14. Land Reforms Laws have eliminated the classes of Land Lords and Tenants Now only the classes of farmers and farm workers remain

15. The two classes of farmers and farm workers should be blended into one class of agriculturists through co-operative farming

16. The small milk producers of Gujarat have, under the leadership of Dr. Kurian, built a big milk co-operative

17. You can also build a successful farm- co-operative

18. Industrial Revolution gave birth to the factory system of production

19. The factory system gave birth to the classes of owners and workers

20. Factory workers have improved their lives through struggles

21. But the classes of owners and workers have remained

22. By giving the workers participation in management and ownership in the existing factories and

23. By starting new factories on the basis of co-operative principles…

24. You should eliminate the classes of owners and and workers and blend them into one industrial class

25. Millions of workers are still unorganised, they should be organised and their lives made better

26. Social bias against the dalits has not been completely eliminated

27. But education and share in power have reduced the inequalities between castes

28. You should ensure that all castes live together in harmony on the basis of equality

29. You should also ensure that in your lifetime the most neglected sections of our society also live a life with dignity

30. The present man dominated man-woman relations should be replaced by relations permeated by equality

31. Let the ideals of liberty, equality and fraternity enliven our families

32. Let the socialist values permeate your behaviour, your life

33. We are leaving behind us a dream in your eyes A dream of a society informed by the ideals of liberty, equality and fraternity, will you realise that dream