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On
the
slogan
of
Long
Live
Revolution
[Shri
Ramanand
Chatter
ji,
the
editor
of
Modern
Review.
Ridiculed
the
slogan
of
Long
Live
Revolution
through
an
editorial
note
(see
Appendix
VIII)
and
gave
an
entirely
wrong
interpretation
to
the
slogan.
Bhagat
Singh
wrote
a
reply
to
the
note
and
handed
it
over
to
the
trying
magistrate
to be
sent
to
Modern
Review.
The
reply
was
subsequently
published
in
the
Tribune
of
December
24,
1929.]
THE
EDITOR,
MODERN
REVIEW
You
have,
in
the
December
(1929)
issue
of
your
esteemed
magazine,
written
a
note
under
the
caption
"Long
Live
Revolution",
and
have
pointed
out
the
meaninglessness
of
this
phrase.
It
would
be
impertinent
on
our
part
to
try
to
refute
or
contradict
the
statement
of
such
an
old,
experienced
and
renowned
journalist
as
your
noble
self,
for
whom
every
enlightened
India
has
profound
admiration.
Still
we
feel
it
our
duty
to
explain
what
we
desire
to
convey
by
the
said
phrase,
as in
a way
it
fell
to
our
lot
to
give
these
"cries"
a
publicity
in
this
country
at
this
stage.
We
are
not
the
originators
of
this
cry.
The
same
cry
had
been
used
in
Russian
revolutionary
movements.
Upton
Sinclair,
the
well-known
socialist
writer,
has,
in
his
recent
novels
Boston
and
Oil,
used
this
cry
through
some
of
the
anarchist
revolutionary
characters.
The
phrase
never
means
that
the
sanguinary
strife
should
ever
continue,
or
that
nothing
should
ever
be
stationary
even
for a
short
while.
By
long
usage
this
cry
achieves
a
significance
which
may
not
be
quite
justifiable
from
the
grammatical
or
the
etymological
point
of
view,
but
nevertheless
we
cannot
abstract
from
that
the
association
of
ideas
connected
with
that.
All
such
shouts
denote
a
general
sense
which
is
partly
acquired
and
partly
inherent
in
them.
For
instance,
when
we
shout
"Long
Live
Jatin
Das",
we
cannot
and
do
not
mean
by
that
shout
is
that
the
noble
ideal
of
his
life,
the
indomitable
spirit
which
enabled
that
great
martyr
to
bear
such
untold
suffering
and
to
make
the
extreme
sacrifice
for
that
ideal,
should
ever
live.
By
raising
this
cry
we
wish
that
we
may
show
the
same
unfailing
courage
in
persuance
of
our
ideal.
It is
that
spirit
that
we
allude
to.
Similarly,
one
should
not
interpret
the
word
"Revolution"
in
its
literal
sense.
Various
meanings
and
significances
are
attributed
to
this
word
attributed
to
this
word,
according
to
the
interests
of
those
who
use
or
misuse
it.
For
the
established
agencies
of
exploitation
it
conjures
up a
feeling
of
blood-stained
horror.
To
the
revolutionaries
it is
a
sacred
phrase.
We
tried
to
clear
in
our
statement
before
the
Sessions
Judge,
Delhi,
in
our
trial
in
the
Assembly
Bomb
Case,
what
we
mean
by
the
word
"Revolution".
We
started
therein
that
Revolution
did
not
necessarily
involve
sanguinary
strife.
It
was
not a
cult
of
bomb
and
pistol.
They
may
sometimes
be
mere
means
for
its
achievement.
No
doubt
they
play
a
prominent
part
in
some
movements,
but
they
do
not -
- for
that
very
reason
- -
become
one
and
the
same
thing.
A
rebellion
is
not a
revolution.
It
may
ultimately
lead
to
that
end.
The
sense
in
which
the
word
Revolution
is
used
in
that
phrase,
is
the
spirit,
the
longing
for a
change
for
the
better.
The
people
generally
get
accustomed
to
the
established
order
of
things
and
begin
to
tremble
at
the
very
idea
of a
change.
It is
this
lethargical
spirit
that
needs
be
replaced
by
the
revolutionary
spirit.
Otherwise
degeneration
gains
the
upper
hand
and
the
whole
humanity
is
led
astray
by
the
reactionary
forces.
Such
a
state
of
affairs
leads
to
stagnation
and
paralysis
in
human
progress.
The
spirit
of
Revolution
should
always
permeate
the
soul
of
humanity,
so
that
the
reactionary
forces
may
not
accumulate
(strength)
to
check
its
eternal
onward
march.
Old
order
should
change,
always
and
ever,
yielding
place
to
new,
so
that
one
"good
"
order
may
not
corrupt
the
world.
It is
in
this
sense
that
we
raise
the
shout
"Long
Live
Revolution."
Your
sincerely
(Sd.)
Bhagat
Singh
B.K.
Dutt
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