94 SOCIAL SCIENTIST is but a means to widen, to enrich, to promote the existence of the labourer." Thus from the Marxist point of view, aesthetics in architecture would consist of promotion, widening, enriching and ennobling the existence of the labourer, the very opposite of which is happening today. The Marxist point of view does not seem to deny the architecture of early ages, beauty and character in formal sense. What it docs find unaesthetic about the architecture of early ages is its spiritual essence. Above all, Marxism typefies what is "just and appropriate" in a spiritual sense. For Marxism, "just and appropriate" is what is in the interest of the ^essential human being" as typefied by the majority of the people. All attempts to sabotage the interests of the majority in the name of art, to take satisfaction in formal visual imagery at the expense of conscious, progressive content are "inappropriate" to say the least. Therefore in the Indian reality, the search for aesthetics in architecture would be in attempts that tend to create "better life" for the majority of the hitherto oppressed people. This of course cannot happen in one day. The first step would be that the oppressed raise themselves to the position of the ruling class, in order that the society's material resourses are utilized in the best interest of the oppressed. Further steps would depend upon the condition of the proletariat when it comes to power. Then step by step, as economy permits, the following may occur. a) Ensuring drinking water supply to all. b) Ensuring sanitation to all localities. c) Abolition of bourgeois housing and ensuring shelter, housing, for all. d) Improving means of transportation with state ownership of all transportation. e) Creating better working conditions in factories, fields and offices, in that order. f) Creating public spaces for socio-cultural and political activities of the majority. g) Ensuring facilities for sports, healthy physical life to all. h) Creating free educational facilities for all children and so on. i) Combination of agriculture and manufacturing indus- ries, gradual abolition of the distinction between town and coun-