Left-especially the Indian variety is not fit to exist even at ideological
level- why?
Whenever I read
the wonderful book' An Idealist View of Life' by Dr. S.Radhakrishnan which he
has written as a professor writing a text book for students without any
passionate positioning of particular ideas against another or Osho's book of
Secrets or the Zen stories or Encyclopedia of Social Inventions - an excellent
reference work for everyone incidentally perhaps one of the few good things
done by Oxfam.
What all these
great books show is that humanity in the realm of social engineering can throw any idea or
ideology, even the farfetched ones, into the cauldron of socio-cultural experimentation and churn it
with whichever form of political or religious denomination at the collective
level and observe the psychological ,emotional and intellectual acceptance and
reactions at the individual level.
In this process
various ‘isms’ or ‘ologoies’ evolved -which later on, in some cases turned into
belief systems or ideological faiths or functional political systems.
Ultimately they
are, rightly or wrongly, judged by their survival value in terms of chronology
– like kingdoms and empire hoods- besides, more importantly their benefits to
the individual and society at large.
In this process
various believers of some ‘isms’ have tried their level best to homogenize
individual aspirations and social behaviors to fit into their ‘isms’.
These are all
perfectly justifiable in the process of social evolutionary trends.
Though the
ulterior motive of many of these homogenizing trends have been to hegemonize,
command and control greater number of human beings spread across larger
geographical areas.
These
were pushed in through euphemistic terminological claims of ushering in unity, though these were more focused on creating uniformity and not unity.
These
linguistic attacks were so well injected that hardly anyone doubted the
intentions.
They are as
difficult to clearly distinguish as differences between naïve, innocent,
ignorant.
However, among
these multitude of ‘isms’, even prima facie ‘The Leftist communism –especially
the variety that is peddled in India- ironically of all the places, is
absolutely out of sync with both the socio-religio-cultural milieu as well as the
very nature of human beings which predominantly manifest variety and which love to live with identities starting from the name that is assigned to as a baby to
the tradition, religion, cultural mores that one gets groomed into, enjoying all
forms of festivities and activities together with others, all the while being
aware of all sorts of varieties but
never nurturing an animosity based on exaggerated notions of victim hood.
This is the
natural tendency of normal human species primarily as a bio chemical entity
with emotional and mental aspirations everywhere as no one would like to move
around in vacuous inanity or inane vacuum unless one is monk who because of his
highly evolved condition of mind and awareness, can easily manifest detachment
or one is a mentally retarded person who, unfortunately, is not aware of his
identity.
Therefore,
almost all over the world Left has various hues and colors to accommodate the
ever changing trends and developments [the most diplomatic way of choosing
expediency over out dated ideology] but surprisingly in India they have
dominated both the social debates and social engineering because it was used as
a convenient tool by foreign outfits to exploit some of the inconvenient
traditions that local people were unwilling to change though knowingly sometimes
even uncomfortable to put up with. It was their own psychological choice to
live in harmony with differences rather than resorting to dividing in animosity
This has also
some lessons in introspection for Indians at large, that we as a society must effect the necessary changes in certain
traditions which have outlived their significance or relevance in present life
styles for example not being able to use cow dung mixed water on granite
floored house entrances or not being able wear a nine yards sari and play
tennis or clean/soak everything with water after paying visit to a dead body
[except purses, keys, mobiles phones, lap tops, car interiors etc].
In societies
like these with a very rich heritage, with multitude of regional traditions and
all these mixed with almost highly sanctified pride of ancestry while one group
parades its past glories cherry picking, the attackers focus and zoom the
irrelevant practices through scum clearing. This is where we give greater room
for the Left which would otherwise have been left unnoticed long back.
The only
success stories of Left in India are one man ruling, or should I say ruining, a
state for 30 years, shouting and sloganeering against American Imperialism [his
imagined and projected enemy-while letting his daughter studied even her
primary education in USA wherefrom she wrote books like Karma Cola], now Karat
family dominating the scenario with another Namboodri Bad dominated till he
became older than his political competitor Karunakaran and retired after 80
years.
