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around non-violence. If it is different from non-violence, its Indianship may be doubted. Indian socialism also is based on nonviolence.
Karl Marx is known as the founder of socialism but he has given importance to the end. The means has been neglected by him. His socialism depends on the class struggle between capitalists and labours. Karls Max has declared that in the struggle capitalist will be defected and the governing power will be achieved by labours. The labours will not care for their ruin. If the capitalists will not handover there power to the labours, they will take it forcibly and injuriously. In this way a day will come when the state will loose its existence because actually state is useless. It has been established for their own pleasures and prosperity.
But in India, the injurious form of this western socialism has been changed in non-injurious form by Acharya Narendra Dev, the father of Indian Socialism. In India, there is democratic socialism which, according Acharya Narendra dev, has faith in the ethical development coming from the ancient time, and ultimately comes to the social morality. It solves the problems of interconflicts found in the ethical ideology, protects the ethical theories of humanity and traditional ideas which do not have any opposition against socialism.'' The social morality is the real human morality. The social morality consists of literacy, equality and universal welfare.20 The democratic socialism wants classless society. The socialistic society never permits heavy taxation and money making for any service to sociéty.21 Acharya Narendra Dev has propounded that socialism is not only economic but a cultural revolution also. The unity between labour and capitalist is the original theory of social culture. It assesses human labour as the constructive power of human personality.22
Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, an eminent supporter of socialism has emphasized on the removal of the seven types of disparities
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