Dr. Lohia imparted to socialism an earnestness and dynamism much needed in the context of the problems of reconstruction and development along the lines of the values of creativity, justice, equally and freedom-the values which he called eternal insignificance. He emancipated socialism from the anaemic schism of European socialism and projected it as an independent full-fledged system of social transformation in its various aspects-political, economic, culture and spiritual. He advanced socialism as a revolutionary yet democratic ideology with the dimensions that are variegated but well concatenated.In developing socialism as a complete and coherent philosophy and ideology of coherent philosophy and ideology of social reconstruction, Lohia adopted numerous insights of Gandhi in order to ensure that socialism could deliver not only the immediate but also the permanent goods of life and at the same time save humanity from the evils that bedeviled the realization of its values of justice, freedom and dignity of man and equality and real democracy at the hands of Europe, the then soviet Union and the United States. It was on the basis of the Gandhian insight of Satyagraha that he forged his weapon of struggle in keeping with the spirit of democracy and reverence for the forms of life, including particularly the human Again, it was the Gandhian idea of importance of the small machine technology which showed him the path of solving India’s problems of employment while, at the same time, avoiding the pitfalls associated with the heavy industrialism of the west. In Gandhi’s emphasis on decentralization and people’s participation, Lo his found the key to making socialism democratic and democracy socialistic. Unless resource is had to these twin avenues, the people cannot avoid the evils of capitalism with its possessiveness and commu8nism with its tendency to stamp out diversity and suppress creativity with its proneness to regimentation. It is in this perspective that an evaluation of the ideas of Dr. Lohia has been presented in this study by the author
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