Founder of Radical Humanism, also called New Humanism
Manabendra Nath Roy (21 March 1887 – 25 January 1954), born Narendra Nath Bhattacharya, was an Indian revolutionary, radical activist and political theorist. Roy was a founder of the Mexican Communist Party and the Communist Party of India. He was also a delegate to congresses of the Communist International and Russia’s aide to China. Following the rise of Joseph Stalin, Roy left the mainline communist movement to pursue an independent radical politics. In 1940 Roy was instrumental in the formation of the Radical Democratic Party, an organisation in which he played a leading role for much of the decade of the 1940s. Roy later moved away from Marxism to become an exponent of the philosophy of radical humanism.
Acutely conscious of the necessity of providing a philosophical foundation to the values of democracy, Roy formulated a number of theses, which were published under the title Twenty Two Theses of New Humanism In 1947, Roy published a manifesto under the title New Humanism in support of the Twenty Two Theses.