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ecause he is seeing a reversal in thecontemporary Indian life. Because ofrevolution in communication, in the eraof the market based culture people's criticalvision is extensively deteriorating, his mainaim is to rejuvenate it. This is not possibleby being indifferent towards contemporarylife.It is unnecessary to say that thecriticism that discussed life can only beconnected with writings and could takein its range all the cultural developments.Literature is not Merely IdeologyRam Vilas Sharma also targeted atmechanical materialists. He understoodthem clearly. "Only with the knowledgeof literary traditions, progressive criticismcan develop" (Assessment of Tradition). Hecould see that there are conditions ofdivorce between tradition and progress.Some progressive writers are negatingBhakti poets and the romantic poets ofmodern times. They are repeating thecolonial understanding of the Aryan andDarvidian struggle. They are not ready toaccept the concepts of Hindi communityand they insist that culture is only shadoweconomy, and literature is being seen asonly political literature. Some writers tryto compensate the faults of their writingsby boasting about politics. There is nodearth of such critics who refuse to seelogic in other's ideas, and could not seestupidity of their own beliefs. Criticism isfgndi •not to make materialistic ideas logical butto make them baseless. The condition issuch that some critics instead of exploringdeep into the inner world of any writinghave been limited to making shallowcommentary about it.Ram Vilas Sharma was associated withthe progressive revolution. He was theGeneral Secretary of Progressive WritersAssociation from1949 to1953. He felt thatprogressive revolution has to come out fromthe mechanism of attitude and illusions.This is the reason why he fearlessly opposedmechanical materialism to expand therelation between tradition and Marxism.He also fought with those people who wereagainst the relationship between Marxismand tradition, and also with those whomade creative mechanical relations with thetwo concepts. He collided with ShivdanSingh Chowhan, Rangeya Raghav,Koshambi, Yashpal and many others whoare history. He found two big lapses inprogressive revolution — 'not assessing thevalue of non-Marxist writers and notopposing the reactionary tendencies whichare spreading inside progressive literature'.He was worried about the ambiguity ofthoughts and artistic laxity in progressiveliterature. Throughout his life he opposedfanaticism and opportunism. Many had toaccept the importance of his criticism bysuppressing their emotions since whateverhe said was true.Parallel to political narrowness wasliterary genuineness and such writers hadApril-June 2013 :: 47