Ideology diluted in India
“Whenever I see leaders like Harkishen Singh Surjeet and Sitaram Yetchury on Television, I squirm in my seat. What a bunch of characters”.Eswar blasted Communists in India in his “India was up for sale !?” blog.
Exasperation of Eswar based on the attitude of Communists towards the two popular countries is truly valid but it is only macroscopic. His accusation is only based on the foreign relations not for what they failed to achieve in India. In my point of view of Communists in India need few more smacking and some accolades for their recent change of approach.
My angriness towards them is due to inappropriate adaptation of Communism in India. India is the auriferous land to sow in the communist ideology and principles. But unfortunately parties in India had blown out the seeds in air. Communists were unsuccessful to reform and revolutionize India with the estimable principles of Communism.
Their main concern was to fight against the exploitation of work and improper wage regime. They accomplished the phenomenal job of liberating the workers from industrial servitude and installing the self-respect of a worker with in the factory campus but they blanked out to emancipate the workers from social evils and to get them the social freedom.
Communists leaders were never ready to worry about social prejudice, graded inequality and discrimination based on caste prevailing in the society. They failed to liberate them from the brutal caste hierarchy before liberating them from their industrial bosses.
The communists are rationalists and they took their oath by saying “ I solemnly affirm that .. .” instead of “ I swear in the name of God…”. Though they are identifying themselves as non-religious, they are not ready to shed their caste image. Their reluctant approach towards the opposition of Hindutuva and the ignorance of social justice are the potential down falls of Communists in India.
They adopted the Communism in the same fashion as it was adopted in Russia, but fortunately Russia was not in the control of Hindutuva. The Communist agenda failed to include any strategy to combat the cruel face Hindutuva that eventually leads to the miserable debacle of Communism in India. In Simple worlds, Communists had not followed the ideology which Thandhai Periyar and Dr.Ambedkar followed.
The Communists are lending their ears to hear about social justice and to understand the meaning of social justice only after the Mandal Commission. In the mean time the proliferation of Hindutuva forces are tremendous to counter the radical change emerging from Communists in India.
The proverb “repentance comes too late” holds well for Communist parties as they started vehemently opposing the Hindutuva and to voice for social justice. Their unshakable and unassailable stand against Hindutuva then any other party is encouraging nowadays.
posted by Sunday Thoughts @ 10:10 AM
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6 Comments:
I could not agree with you more on CPIs failures... I for one, firmly believe that Communism is not India's piece of cake.
It miserably failed in Russia. Its fading away in China. I think we should learn from their experiments.
Tharani I am not so sure that its any of the left's business to pass judgement over Hindutva.
I for one believe that Hindutva (as defined by the Supreme Court in one of its landmark judgements) brought us indians the feeling of self-pride and self-esteem.
We shouldnt be so quick in denouncing it.
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There is a widespread ignorance everywhere about what "Hindutva" means...Many places its being wrongly used synonymously with being hindu and following Hindu Religious ways of life..
Its like the old saying "Pana marathukku kezha ninnu paal kudichaalum....."
People believe that If comes from RSS/BJP its defintely religion fanatic stuff...
I guess communism is like fire that has played differently in different hands. You can use fire to light a lamp or burn a house. The same happened with communism too. While Marx had envisioned this fire, very few like Trotsky caught the useful part of lighting the lamp with it, while authoritarians like Stalin used it to burn houses. While communism is a principle that is shunned with fear in the west and several parts of the world, there is little doubt that it has played a very significant role liberation of worker-slavery directly or indirectly all over the world.
However, Indian communism is a lousy team. While there are very few sensible people like Prakash Karat or George Fernandez, majority are like Surjeet or Sitaram Yechury who are hopeless and have taken the parties to a wrong direction.
Marx proposed his Communism as a backlash against exploitative capitalism. Those countries that embraced it - USSR and its East Bloc partners, China, N Korea, Khmer Rouge - history has clearly shown the individual and collective failures of this theory when applied socially, politically, economically, and possibly in other ways. The curbing of human freedom created Orwellian worlds in these countires, and the return to nature (history in reverse from the iron age to the stone/straw age) at the cost of progress in Khmer republic and in Mao's China causing untold human suffering and unimaginable genocide. It is a moot point to consider the degeneration of political movements founded on the bedrock of Communism - into totalitarian states (can there ever be such a thing as 'benevolent dictator'? consider mao, pol pot, stalin)
Capitalism is certainly not the ideal state, but at the end of it all man lives in a jungle where political, economic, and social might is right (microscopic and macroscopic perspectives) and those who hold any degree of clout tend not to forgo their position and status. (Which one is us is willing to compromise on his creature comforts – A/C, car, flat, bungalow, sending one’s kids to elite schools, etc.?)
Generally, nations with capitalistic economies are also democracies with checks and balances accruing from existence of independent entities such as legislature, executive and the judiciary. This has not been the case in Communist countries. Till date, North Korea is another of those closed nations curbing individual freedom and whose people continue to suffer. The 'glorious' leader has giant pictures of himself dotting the landscape, and the state-controlled media is replete with his self-eulogizing
Communism seems to have created a static society where fear, paranoia, and guilt are the dominant human emotions. Economic, social, and cultural progress seem to be non-existent. Discouraging individuals from expressing themselves can only lead to degeneration of the entire nation
Whither the Indian Communists? What is their social, political and economic contribution? As a movement for social justice and economic equality, it undid all that the first CM of West Bengal - Dr BC Roy had done. It killed W Bengal economically by killing the work culture of the people and their self-worth. They ensured that no other party could ever come to power by capturing the grassroots through devious means of lumpen elements, illegal bangladeshi infiltration, to name a few. At the 'young' age of 94, Jyoti Basu has crossed his adolescence in finally announcing that capitalism is the way forward! After over 25 years of destroying the economic well-being of the state of Bengal and its people.
Today, after the fall of USSR, the CPM is allied towards China (a nation without soul or conscience that will use any means of expediency to achieve its ends) for where else can it get its funds? Which industrial house will need to patronize CPM outside of Kerala and Bengal? When China claims Arunachal Pradesh as theirs and recently Northern Sikkim, have Karat and his cohorts publicly spoken out against China?
Whatever Indira Gandhi may have been, she took bold measures when it came to 1971 and the Punjab terrorism of 1984. Today we lack such leadership with iron will to take distasteful but necessary decisions for a greater cause
We have a 'Hindutva' party - BJP - whose senior leader Jaswant Singh personally escorts terrorists to Kandahar.
We have a week-kneed PM (who cannot get elected by popular vote from anywhere) who cannot make a single bold statement against Chinese incursion. We continue to have befuddled government (NDA/UPA/any other) who do not know how to tackle the acts of terrorism be it Akshardham, Jaipur, Bombay, Coimbatore, Bangalore, Delhi which seem to be coming up with alarming frequencies so much so that Chinese incursions do not figure even as blip on the radar
The Indian Communist never had an identity - it continues to be an orphan that looks for its parent (it was USSR once, today it is China, and tomorrow, who knows?) The only true Communist in India would perhaps be those who fight for the socially, economically and politically disadvantaged lot - the landless/impoverished/exploited.
Communism is an ideal state with equality for all but in practice and in reality, it does not appear to be in the realms of possibility.
I remember reading some years ago - the last Communist on this planet will be found in India...headless chickens groping around sightlessly (quoting Ronen Sen)
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