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Monday, July 4, 2011

The Leftist Nonsense

We could trace the origin of the word “left” to the days of French revolution which coined the terms left and right. In the estate generals meeting hall who ever sat on left was for more egalitarian society and the right wanted to retain the old traditions. I think this was necessary as the conditions which triggered the French revolution were demanding such approaches like an organized and a systematic revolution to bring about a change. I know many scholars have argued about the ubiquitous guillotine invented to eliminate those not favoring the left. Thousands perished but still the hard-line leftist’s call that is the best way out. The right might have had wrong intentions but the approach was not bad when compared to the left. Right never wanted to consider killing people as a solution. Then we had industrial revolution where the owners of factories were exploiting the workers and the messiah – The Marx fell from sky on the earth to lobby for them which was good and he had good intentions to improve the lives of proletariat. The frequently asked question is whether the ways prescribed by Marx become a panacea for the whole world today which was more relevant when discovered by Marx to the unique conditions of fledgling industrial revolution. In his theory Marx did have a reference which says the communism could evolve to the changing times and that could be called as dialecticism, which was never applied to the spirit of its original meaning and this was also used as justification for misdeeds of greedy dictators akin to Joseph Stalin. It is ludicrous to listen the leftists when they talk about the classless society, this is simply not possible. How come a software engineer and Kooli could earn the same salary hence classes in society is inevitable and I am not talking about the race when I utter the word class. I know people like Mao dreamt about exporting the revolution throughout the world which is certainly idiotic and unrealistic. As we have exceptions in everything in this world there is only one Fidel Castro and not many and we can count few in Latin America and not many. But we have many terrible examples starting from the Khmer rouge to Pinchot all killed people and were parties who committed genocide. And North Korea’s collective madness is another example. If left’s only enemy is market economy then they are really naïve because we don’t have many success stories of state controlled economies including the super power USSSR then what is their real problem ? Coming back to original purpose of this note ie., consider the situation of left in India and how it affects India’s growth. Firstly we have many noted pseudo-intellectuals who are well qualified with relevant degrees but do not realize that they live in a nation state era and national unity and nationalism is of utmost priority then their unrealistic goals which they tend to achieve through communism. And the left in India is necessarily is a victim of china obsession.

Its congress’s misrule which lead to bad state of affairs in this country where Indian flag is burnt by the Muslim fanatics but nobody does anything about it – I think the Indian Flag Code does not apply. I shall say that this grand old party of India did re-discover the word “secularism “and manipulated that concept according to its whims and fancies. In India secularism is generally propagated by leftist media and the congress as Anti-Hindu. If someone talks Anti-Hindu he is secular, what a pity. In his words of the noted internationally acclaimed intellectual Dr.Subramaniya Swami “Congress always wanted to rule this country with coalition of minorities”.

Now the question arises how the right wing differs with lofty left. In our country all those who propagate nationalism and talks about the Hinduism are called right wing (fundamental right wing – in their words of many pseudo-intellectual leftists). Now what is wrong if I want to save my country’s inherent culture? May be the fierce full nationalists may not agree with the nomenclature – right wing, because for them it simply does not matter. As Aristotle asserted man is a political animal, we shall deduce that the right, left and centre are merely ways through which people can realize their dreams which are essentially political. It is a fact that the communism literature has produced people like Bhagat Singh – listening to his name the blood rushes through my veins. And also it has produced nationalists like Harkishan Singh Surjit – To write about his patriotism it could be a topic of another book.

As already mentioned the current state of left in India is such that they are victims of Chinese obsession. And they term the Chinese aggression not as a belligerent action but an act to liberate India from capitalism, what a ridiculous approach it is. Now all the wrongs committed by the left throughout the world can be justified under the shelter of dialecticism which is highly controversial because different personal tyrannies have different explanations. The Cambodian killings can be justified by the Khmer Rouge and so is the case of Stalin in Russia.

We shall recall Fidel Castro who is an exception. And exceptions cannot be examples or precedents. The major problem is it’s obsession with proletariat and it’s bankruptcy of ideologue and imagination. The left thinks that India is still facing the situation of Indigo growing farmers during the regime of the police state.

Going by what people think about the left in India can be seen by its representation in parliament and legislatures. Now a long time ruled state like West Bengal has already disowned the left. It survives in the circle of few educated elite. There is really a grim chance of survival for left in India if it does not change and drop its china obsession. We have few left leaning newspapers in India who justify anything and everything done by China from Tianmen to the Tibet’s Peaceful Uprising. And the other common selling point for left is communalism and referring it to Hindus. It calls secular Christian and Muslim organizations and communal Hindu organizations. It cannot tolerate the India’s marriage with USA and in its understanding it is an imperial force which may be true but that is not the point. The China is itself moved away from the Maoist thinking and now works hand in hand with US on many global issues.

To conclude the left must change its attitude and develop positive approach and stop thinking of importing revolutions and not to propagate the divide else it is set to lose the confidence of Tripura too.