পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (তৃতীয় খণ্ড).pdf/৩৭৯

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বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ তৃতীয় পত্র

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 58. But what then? What shall, we do with independence when the enemy is vanquished? The only possible answer is that we shall use independence in our actions to win our welfare'.

 59. But, we became independent 23 years ago along with the West Pakistani minority. While they used more than their due share of independence in their actions to enhance their welfare and strength, we did not use ours. And therefore not only we have lost our welfare and strength, but we are now about to lose our 'Independence' itself.

 60. But, no nation or society is either absolutely independent or absolutely nonindependent, because every society can take its own actions up to a degree. The only way to retain whatever independence is there and to win a greater degree of independence for greater welfare and strength is to use in actions whatever independence is now available for whatever welfare and strength is now possible. Otherwise, welfare, strength, and independence itself go by default. We, the people of Bangladesh, are now finding it out to our bitterest agony.

 61. And this action must be taken by the people themselves. The Leaders are of course needed to show the way; but nothing is really attained until the people at the base of the social pyramid begin to act with their productive (economic) and protective (social) lob ours in mutual cooperation and discipline. The key to independence, strength, and welfare itself, thus, lies in the bare hands of the people.

 62. Sheikh Mujib has chosen democratic socialism as our path to welfare. Whatever details we may follow in that path, (and notwithstanding the arguments of various 'isms') our elemental step to enduring welfare must be social cooperation through democratic self-government at the foundation of our society (fortress in each village,) where the people themselves will protect their constructive vitality from subjugation and exploitation by the social cheats. Such democratic self-government, as the only administration' at the social basest is the only common feature of, all really progressive countries irrespective of their 'isms' whether it is called a commune or a Kibutz, a County or a Borough, a Collective or Canton. We also must do the same. The Leader, his Lieutenants, and the Base-Worker must of course mobilize, guide and urge. But it is the people at our social base who must be activated to take that step.

 63. If then, the blind fury of our people against the enemy today can be converted into an indomitable will on their part for self-reliance, and if their labor, cooperation and discipline can be activated into the construction of the same socio-economic 'fortress in each village' within their truly democratic Panchayets, wherever and to whatever extent possible, as their weapon as well as their shield against the hated enemy, far more than a beginning will have been made on our way to welfare by the time the enemy is vanquished. And then, upon the solid foundation of these constructive village bases the superstructure of our national welfare will be built, quickly and confidently, at progressively higher levels, never again to be the helpless victim of any aggrandizer.

 At this fateful moment of birth of our nation it is, therefore, for the Base-Worker to transform what is now a calamity into an opportunity for the people of Bangladesh.