A WORLD IN OBLIVION

Dr.Ram Manohar Lohia (1910-1967) Lohia was the stormy petrel of Indian politics. He was an original thinker who accepted Marxism and Gandhism in parts, but not in totality. He questioned the fundamentals of both and went beyond these horizons. He had a blossoming mind of his own and razor sharp intellect that could cut in all directions like a saw, in realm of knowledge, ideas and praxis. Lohia was well versed in dialectics and his German apprenticeship under Werner Sombart, Schumacher, Wermard, Desnaur and Onckeln etc made him a different kind of thinker who was creative and artistic. Appreciation and rejection of Karl Marx :  He was deeply impressed by the genius of Karl Marx in expanding the Laws of Capital Development but he found their explanation inadequate. The materialistic interpretation of History, the Theory of Surplus Value, the Theory of violent revolution he rejected. But agreed upon the historical character of class struggle and vision of Marx of Socia...