Netaji Thought
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| Founder | Arjuna Kalsarah |
| Ideology | Ajahadyan nationalism Cultural nationalism Socialism Collectivism Militarism Trade unionism |
Netaji Thought, or Netajism, more rarely called Kalsarahism is an Ajahadyan political philosophy inspired by Sattarism, Imaharism, National Principlism, Tretyakism and the personal ideology of Arjuna Kalsarah, known by his honorific Netaji. Netaji Thought was created as an ideology 'to guide Satria forwards' by synthesising other post-colonial, socialist and anti-colonial ideolgies to create a 'path for Satria'. It was developed by Arjuna Kalsarah during the 1950s and 1960s through his writings, personal correspondence and speeches, and after his death in 1966 was largely adopted by the left-wing faction of the Satrian Republic in the early 1970s and was implemented in Ajahadya in the late 1970s..
Netaji Thought revolves around the concept of the 'worker-soldier', the Kāmadāra Sainika (lit. 'working soldier'). Inspired by Tretyakist ideas, Netaji Thought instead called for a total mobilization of the working class to take up arms against 'reactionary and capitalist forces'; there was no distinction made between a worker and a soldier in Netaji Thought. Netaji Thought states that the nation must be 'formed from the worker-soldiers, run by the worker-soldiers, and run for the worker-soldiers.'
History
Codification
Six Principles
Swaraj
A central concept of Netaji Thought is Swarāj, literally "self-rule", referring to Kalsarah's concept of freedom and independence. He defined it as not only independence from foreign domination, but an integral revolution that encompasses all spheres of life. In 1949, Kalsarah wrote "At both the individual and national level, Swaraj is the capacity for rational self-assessment, ceaseless self-purification and able self-reliance." As a result, the concept is applied throughout the ideology's other components. Economically, Swaraj means economic freedom from moneyed interests and the ability to gain wealth, inspired by a history of Satrian asceticism. Socially, Swaraj is self-rule, self-reliance and self-restraint for the individual. It forms an integral part of Kalsarah's personal values and the Code of Moral Socialism.
For the state, Swarāj calls for a statist form of governance, modelled after Shangean National Principalism. It rejects liberal democracy which it considers as a bourgeoisie democracy and councilist democracy which it considers to produce a 'weak, slow, indecisive and bureaucratic state'. The state, according to Swarāj, must first be 'independent from all foreign interests and influences that might prevent the state from acting in its own interests', which includes its own citizens, 'as the individual will always be tempted to act for their own short-term gain rather than the long-term benefit of the nation.' The ideal way to achieve this, according to Netaji Thought, is rule by the worker-soldiers.
Republicanism
Netaji Thought declared that monarchies were 'hopelessly backward and reactionary, a dead end of an ideology'. Therefore, all monarchies at all levels must be dissolved immediately, without any compensation, and the former monarchs property seized 'for the common good of the working people'. Kalsarah was a fervent supporter of the abolishment of the privy purse payments paid to all rulers of monarchies within the Satrian Republic and their autnomous rule over their lands as per the Constituion of the Satrian Republic.
After Ajahadyan independence, all property and lands owned by monarchs within the new state was seized, with their titles being formally abolished.
On the structure of the republic, Netaji Thought states that it 'will be a republic of the worker-soldiers, led by a soldier-president.' Despite being a member of the Pan-Satrian Congress, Netaji Thought decries political parties, calling them 'little more than cliques of those with the same self-interest and impose their own worldviews that distort and fracture society'. Kalsarah wrote in 1951 in Letter #9 that the incorporation of the Red Bashurat Movement into the Pan-Satrian Congress 'made his throat fill with the most foul-tasting bile at the necessary evil.' Instead, Netaji Thought calls for 'direct rule by the worker-soldiers through the appointment of worker-soldiers to the legislative body and executive positions, with these bodies to induct new members by the pre-existing membership selecting soldier-workers to replace empty seats, in order to prevent subversion and corruption.'
Nationalism
Kalsarah was an ardent Pan-Satrian throughout his whole life, and wrote in 1964 in Letter #141 that he 'fervently believed in the national, cultural, political and spiritual unity of all the Satrian peoples' and believed that this unity was the nacence of a Satrian nationhood that did not need an ethnic, religious or linguistic connection between peoples to foster unity. Netaji Thought formerly idealised ancient Satrian empires such as the Sangma Empire as a sign that Satrian unity was the natural state of affairs but after the end of the Satrian Republic, this idealisation was changed to idealise the supposed cultural and religious unity of ancient Satrian empires.
After Ajahadya broke away from the Satrian Republic, this principle was instead applied to Ajahadyan nationalism instead of pan-Satrianism. Netaji Thought calls for a 'strong, proud, forthright and honest national identity, with no shame being taken in that identity and it indeed being displayed with pride; with this identity to be based upon the historical cultural, political, spiritual and class consciousness that permeates society at all levels, for the purpose of creating national and popular unity.'