Editing National Bolshevism (section)

==== [[File:AuthSoc.png]] Authoritarianism ====
Bose came to believe that an independent India needed socialist authoritarianism, on the lines of Turkey's [[File:Fashkemal.png]] Kemal Atatürk, for at least two decades to bring liberation and reconstruction of Indian society.. For political reasons Bose was refused permission by the British authorities to meet Atatürk at Ankara. Additionally, he expressed admiration for the authoritarian methods which he saw in Italy and Germany during the 1930s


To a large number of Congress leaders, Bose programme shared many similarities with [[File:Showa.png]] [[Showa Statism]]. After getting marginalized within Congress, Bose chose to embrace fascist and communist regimes as allies against the British and fled India. Bose believed that India "must have a political system—State—of an authoritarian character," and "a strong central government with dictatorial powers for some years to come".


Earlier, Bose had clearly expressed his belief that democracy was the best option for India. However, during the war (and possibly as early as the 1930s), Bose decided that no [[File:AntiDem.png]]democratic system could be adequate to overcome India's poverty and social inequalities, and he wrote that a socialist state similar to that of Soviet Russia (which he had also seen and admired) would be needed for the process of national re-building. Bose's alliance with the Axis during the war was based on pragmatism and to use any means necessary to free India of colonialism from his attempts to enter the Soviet union which he found no success in due to being accused of being a British spy, then his trip to Germany who could not promise him support, and then his trip to Japan who helped him create the Azad hind.