सावधान कुछ देर नहीं है लाल सवेरा आने में .
लाल भवानी प्रकट हुई है 'जे एन यु के तहखाने में' ..
(sorry baba Nagarjun I really respect you. I am changing your words a little because world has changed and Telangana is now actually ruled by supporter of a slightly different colour : saffron. So no hope of Lal Bhawani there at least for few more years).
To me it is an achievement of government (BJP , RSS etc if you mean them by government) that they can make a person of left ideology to talk about being within limits of constitution and salute bravery and martyrdom of our soldier on border. Its good to see explicit expression of faith in Indian constitution by someone associated with an ideology that only vaguely expresses its views on a national constitution. Also good to see a socialist (maybe marxist) addressing mob of intellectuals holding flag of nation.
It is not very common scenario I heard of happening in an assembly organized by a left leader. But you can feel frustration when you see word 'socialism' being stressed and compare it with reality : capitalism everywhere. Whether capitalism is good or bad is not a topic here though. you can get more about that 150 years old question at many other places.
If you think of a fund raising program to support China during indo-china war or celebrating death of policemen while fighting maoist then those are the kind of noble causes you can associate lefts with.
Yes of course there are shades of red and some of them are darker than others but they are all product of same failed unrealistic dream.
Why is 'revolution' main theme of talks among leftists ?
Do we really always need a revolution in our society ? There comes a time when there is chaos , depravity , unease and uncertainty in society. You might not have a big common goal but you might have hundreds of small tasks to perform. Your solutions are not same in both scenarios. This situation is not very healthy for some people. This is a challenge for people trying to grab power. They can not project a big monster to fight for before masses to mobilize them. So how can they get such monster that can serve their purpose ? Manufacture one.
Left , right , middle , side, corner ,all wings have their own manufactured monster to project before nation. Idea of revolution is that of a left party.
But our problem always is not how to change the system and replace it with new one. sometimes to solve your problems you might not need a giant step. you might need plenty of small steps to solve all your small problems to make a stable , functioning and prosper society. But that is an irritating , lengthy , boring and not so rewarding task. But that is not what demands revolution . Revolution advocated by lefts means a sudden overall change. replace old guard with new for no apparent reason and do things at whim on name of liberation, equality and welfare of sarwhara.
Is that the situation in india now ? It was before 1947. you had a common cause of getting freedom. you needed a revolution to change the system. But you got your freedom now.
Nation achieved what it needed. Several ideologies didn't. Socialism was one of them. There are others too and we can come up with similar analysis for them too but today I am talking about shades of red.
It is not very difficult to appeal to the emotions of people on name of hardship they are facing in a developing society and associate them with functioning of system governing them. Of course the system which is responsible for solving their problem can not just catapult them from state A to state B , from poverty to prosperity without them feeling that it is happening. We have to be in transition phase and it is not very uncommon to doubt functioning of system when we are in transition. How can we be sure that at the end we ll reach where we have to and not somewhere else. It is also very easy to appeal this uneasiness and mood of frustration and exploit it. However this is the bread and butter of politicians in general in a developing society. While some take this opportunity to keep things on track others advocate a revolution in one form or other. Actually they need revolution more than the nation needs. In fact nation and society will do very well if solution of small problems are presented. We don't always sell our farmland if crop in a season is not good. we just come up with ways like making our land more fertile and hope for a good season.
Our country is in that state now. When we are told about a problem in country our first approach should not be to change our system and we must be beware of any such attempts by others.
