10 SOCIAL SCIENTIST the help of deep understanding of Marxist political economy and apply the principles of political economy to the analysis of Indian economic problems L as well as problems of world economy. Second, the Marxist intellectual must wage a relentless war against all alien ideologies, all forms of conservative and obscurantist ideas, and against all reformist, revisionist, and adventurist political deviations. He must consider it his duty to cross swords with all alien ideas and to vindicate the correct Marxist positions. Third, the Marxist intellectual must be active in building up and strengthening the mass organisations directly related to his intellectual or professional work. For instance, if he is a teacher in the university, college or school, he must be an active member of the teachers' movement, participating in teachers5 struggles. Similarly, engineers, doctors, lawyers scientists, etc., must work actively in their respective professional organisations and raise the consciousness of their members through mass actions. Fourth, it is the duty of the Marxist intellectual to help directly and indirectly the mass organisations linked with his profession or sphere of activity. For example, university and college teachers should take the responsibility to help, in whatever way they can, to build up the mass movements among high school and primary school teachers. Equally important is the task of helping the mass organisations of students. Teachers have a special responsibility to give assistance to the students in their political education and in conducting militant struggles. Fifth, the Marxist intellectual, if he is true to Marxism and to his role as an intellectual, must identify completely with the life and experience of the working class and other toiling people, learn from them and merge with them emotionally and in terms of their aspirations, life and their struggles. Sixth, if he is a true Marxist intellctual, then he will have no choice but to make up his mind to join that political party which is based on the correct understanding of Marxism-Leninism and therefore, the correct understanding of the class character of the Indian State, and function as a disciplined member of the party and participate in revolutionary action without any reservations. It is the historic duty of Marxist intellectuals in India to analyse the nature of the economic and political crisis that is engulfing our nation, to expose the exploitative nature of the system which we have inherited, to flight against all alien, conservative and obscurantist ideologies, to fight against all revisionist and reformist attempts to compromise and settle terms with the system, to fight against all manifestations of left-wing infantile disorder, to educate the masses and arm them with the correct understanding of Marxism-Leninism, to learn from the masses, to merge ^ with the life and experience of the working class and participate in the process of radical transformation of society through revolutionary practice and action.