ABSTRACT
Jawaharlal Nehru became interested in socialism from an early period in his life. In August 1934, Nehru complained to Gandhi that the resolution of the Working Committee on the subject showed such an astounding ignorance of the elements of socialism that ‘it was painful to read it and to realize that it might be read outside India’. It is to the credit of Nehru that in that first attempt at comprehensive planning for India he could lead the Committee to think that the future of India lay in democratic socialism. Many a socialist might agree that since inequality is the root cause of poverty, removal of the former would bring about socialism. Though the aim of socialism was to abolish class struggle and class rule, yet the Marxists wanted to organize the proletariat as a class to fight with the enemy and to effect revolution.
