Despite the implementation of different thinking, the result is failure...
- Confusion of economics: Dhawal Mehta
- The savior or liberator thinking has ended from the world
Even though wars of ideology were going on for about 25 years before and after India's independence, there does not seem to have been a single emancipatory thought, emancipatory leader or emancipatory class in India as well as in the world. When the Communist Revolution took place in Russia in 1917, many people believed that a Communist Party and a Communist nation had emerged that would implement a classless society in the world. Even China, the world's most populous country, saw the rise of a communist government under Mao's leadership after the end of World War II, but failed miserably to create a classless, exploitation-free society. The reverse happened. The shackles of the workers were not broken (remember Marx promised that if you bring about a communist revolution, 'you have nothing to loose but your chains') the theory of communism and the transformation of that theory into practice is a different matter, communism put into practice (communism (in practice) proved to be the most vicious of human freedoms. He robbed his citizens of their freedom of thought and their top leaders became lifelong rulers. The ideals of Marxism turned out to be eccentric. The belief that capitalism (or marketism) is the savior of the people was cemented as true freedom can only be found in democracy and capitalism is compatible with democracy. By prioritizing human freedom, capitalism with democracy is the liberator of human life. But in a capitalist democracy, individual freedom means that everyone is allowed to buy what he wants, set up his own business, take up or leave a job anywhere, eat, drink, wear, live, save, work. Or to do business, to continue or leave a job, to save or not to save from salary or income, to live or do business in any part of the country etc. But in this very narrow meaning of human freedom, capitalist democracy has created enormous economic inequality.
In 1968, in most of the world, student (especially university students) movements to establish a liberating society also failed. The movement ended as soon as America withdrew its troops from Vietnam. The movement (Arab Spring) against the crude and arbitrary and wealthy leaders or sheikhs of the Arab countries also failed. Iran's anti-burqa women's liberation movement has also been brutally crushed. Capitalism has chosen the path of welfare states but even welfare states have become like 'Bhoodans' their inequality of income and wealth and exploitation continues. A communist thinker says that the next liberating revolutionary class will not be the workers but the permanent industrial workers now lower. The revolutionary class that has entered the middle class will now be millions of people living in the slums of the world. Their condition is worse than that of industrial labourers. They have no fixed income and are the revolutionaries of the future. Because they are not a proletarian class everywhere, and because they live in a very dense population, it is not difficult to organize them even as a revolutionary party. This class is currently the most exploited. Whether this class is the most exploited or the class of agricultural laborers is debatable. It should be remembered that trade unions protect the interests of the workers. There does not seem to be any permanent organization of the slum dwellers and even if there is, it does not seem to be effective.
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