Political Science · Indian Political Thought
UGC NET 2023 Political Science
Who said, 'Radicalism thinks in terms neither of nation nor class; its concern is man; it conceives freedom as freedom of the individual'?
ASri Aurobindo
BV.D. Savarkar
CM.N. Roy ✓ Correct
DDeendayal Upadhyay
Correct answer: (C) M.N. Roy — M.N. Roy said this, expressing the core of his philosophy of Radical Humanism.
Explanation
★M.N. Roy said this, expressing the core of his philosophy of Radical Humanism.
★He held that the individual, not the nation or the class, is the true measure of politics.
★Roy made individual freedom the supreme value, above collective abstractions like nation and class.
★He sought the emancipation of individuals from every form of oppression through reason and ethics.
★This human-centred approach set him apart both from nationalist thinkers and from orthodox Marxists.
★Sri Aurobindo grounded politics in spiritual nationalism, while Savarkar built his thought on Hindutva.
★Deendayal Upadhyay rooted his Integral Humanism in cultural nationhood, again unlike Roy's individualism.
★Roy founded the Radical Democratic Party in 1940 after parting ways with the Indian National Congress.
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