Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Communism, Socialism, Capitalism, democracy, republic blah blah...

I am here not to write about which economic or political system is better or which is good for the country. The purpose is to expose the hypocrites among us and it is only possible if we open our eyes to see the world around us.

The most renowned communist, of course Karl Marx, has suggested that socialism will be the transition between capitalism and communism.

Has he said transition, yaa I am sure. If we will follow the great man carefully we can find that the evolution of economic structure is not very different from evolution of human from ape. There are no sharp lines and by no means the society can be turn from one economic system to another suddenly.

It's not very difficult to understand, we have seen the transitions in history and it will be only better if we can understand that transitions are necessary and not the sudden change.

Capitalism has replaced Feudalism and mixed economy is successfully replacing the capitalism; can't we see that. Recession is a good time to see the shortcomings of capitalism.

But that is not the whole point, not even a pinch of what always worries me. Our political parties, terrorist groups like Naxals, communist parties in the left, socialist parties or any other organization; do they have any ideology or any kind of vision.

Communist say they want equality and they want all the people have all the powers, socialist say they want equality and every property should be public or in the hands of government, all the government policies or plans or whatever packages they give are exclusively for the poor of the country or for the middle class. All the organizations or capitalists are paying us well and are upto the standards set by our government.

Sounds wonderful and it seems that everything is going in right direction and ultimately we, common people, are getting all the benefits. Even though we cannot see them very clearly but we just think that this all is really happening in some part of the country we are not living in or for the class of people we don't belong to. But the whole soFa King reality is very different and conciously or unconciously we all know about it but we have turned ourselves so helpless and mindless that we don't even want to take our responsibilities. Still to keep our conscience clear we have our virtual and delicious reality "Everything is allright".

Democracy is powerful only if its people know how to use their powers otherwise it becomes monarchy or even worse sometimes. Do we know our powers, our rights but first do we know what is the political structure of our country and what does that mean. Our we living in a democracy or republic?? may sound stupid to many but the very less people even know the difference between democracy and republic and those who know the difference know that we are living in a republican democracy and we should be happy to know that republican democracy is the best known political structure any nation has ever achieved till date.

But to give democracy its real powers, we the part of the democracy should rise to take our powers. I cannot believe that the thousands of naxals fighting for the better of our society, I mean all thousands of them, do even know that what they are fighting for. If they are intelligent enough to understand then they don't even need to fight. I cannot trust those big bellies sitting in the centre with their chappals in hand don't want to exploit the sleeping and ignorrant nation, I would also love to do that given I am in their position.

There cannot be any transition possible, no improvement in the existing system is possible, no benefit can reach the common man till he himself wants to take it. We should get up to take our responsibilities, we need to come out of our virtual reality and we should understand that we are the humans and they don't have any right to exploit us. They cannot grow their bellies on our money, they cannot grow by just under-paying us, they cannot take our right to education, they cannot play as monarchies.

They are just the cunning and smart ones amongst us and we are equally powerful to respond them. The time is not to blame them but to take the blame of our share and to get up.

1 comment:

  1. kafi serious likhta hai tu.
    I did not expect you to be so thoughtful. Hope you do some good for the country

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