Political Science · Indian Political Thought
UGC NET November 2017 Political Science
The Roy-Lenin debate centred around which of the following?
ADialectical materialism
BThe Marxist theory of history
CThe theory of surplus value
DThe colonial question ✓ Correct
Correct answer: (D) The colonial question — The Roy-Lenin debate centred on the colonial question, so that is the answer.
Explanation
★The Roy-Lenin debate centred on the colonial question, so that is the answer.
★It took place before the Second World Congress of the Communist International in 1920.
★Lenin had drafted theses on the national and colonial question, then invited comments on them.
★M.N. Roy criticised Lenin's theses and was asked to prepare a supplementary or alternative thesis.
★Lenin held that communists in colonies should ally with the bourgeois-nationalist movements against imperialism.
★Roy argued instead that revolutionaries should rely on the workers and peasants, distrusting the national bourgeoisie.
★Both sets of theses were ultimately adopted by the Comintern, making the exchange historically significant.
★After Roy's criticism, the Comintern was counselled to back revolutionary movements of liberation rather than bourgeois-democratic ones.
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