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dated April 21, 1958: Democratic socialism

Prime Minister Nehru said at a symposium on “Our Conception of Democratic Socialism” organised by the Congress Socialist Forum in New Delhi on April 19 that “we have to mould our thinking in the light of the tremendous technological progress taking place to-day.” The idea of socialism, he added, was the product of early industrial revolution. Science and technology had made great strides during the last half century and the conditions to-day were materially different from those obtaining in the time of Marx, on the basis of which he (Marx) had formulated his theory of class conflict, which might lose its validity in the context of abundance promised by science and technology.

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