WHICH IS WHY ! BUT HOW?
Today the country is experiencing a far deeper divide in economic gap between the rich and the poor, the poor are turning more poorer whereas the rich are becoming more richer. On one hand a handful of people have accumulated huge assets at the other side 80 % of the population is finding it hard to make even square meals within their access. Ever increasing prices of essential commodities, out of reach in basic amenities like: education, health & housing are getting to infinitive distance. Agriculture is facing a negative trend and the sector has become UN-remunerative for bare sustenance of life with human dignity and as result Lakhs of peasants are forced to commit suicide under the in-surmountable burden of debt.
The sketch is not of some African or
a Latin American country but that of present day India, a country which was
once called ‘GOLDEN–BIRD’ and which is still the largest importer of Gold .Local
Capitalist is being forced to close down under shrinking market conditions and
decreasing market demand and heavy penetration of Foreign Capital which is
all-n-all out for the kill; Fly by night nature of such Fluid- Money keeps the
market on the tenterhooks. Industrial out-put is at it’s lowest, high inflation
resulting in fall in real incomes of workers , growing un-employment and deep
rooted corruption in all walks of life in connivance with the Nexus of Trio – Corporate,
Politicians and Criminals backed by Imperialist Capital is making life of a
common-man very difficult. It is shocking to note that at the time of
independence which was an Agreement between the economically and militarily weaning
Imperialist Great Britain as an out-come of 2nd World-War, which in
spite of victory of Allied forces left them too weak to directly control and
manage a vast country like India with growing unrest amongst different sections
of the society; the peasants up-rising in Telangana, Taibhaga and Punpra Wylar;
the Naval revolt of 1946 and work Strike by Police Force in some parts of the
country – the entire citizenry was full of angst against the trial of Seghal, Dhillon
and Shehnawaz : National Heroes from Azad Hind Fauz. The worst was that
Students and Workers were out on roads and massive protests were witnessed day
in and day out.
Circumstances during 1945 to 1947
not only terrified the ruling Imperialist British but, a chill ran through
Indian Capitalist Class and the two together started devising way out .The
resultant out-come was Lord Mount-Batten Plan which was an agreement between
British Looters and Indian Capitalists , this agreement became the basis of
India’s Independence in 1947 . The story doesn’t end here , it goes on to
establish another agreement between the Indian Capitalist and Feudal / landlord
section engaged in rural exploitation of small farmers and landless laborers, by
brutally controlling every activity in all spheres of life in villages. India’s
Independence never accomplished the else-where adopted scheme of things of
demolishing the Feudal System to replace it with Capitalist Democracy.
What-ever , this provided the Imperialist to continue their Loot – though indirectly
and the Indian Capitalist along with Rajas , Nawabs and Zamindars to take on
the path of mixed economy – widely known as Nehruvian Economic Model.
It sure will interest the concerned
that at time of Independence, we had some 22 Monopoly Capitalists in the
country whose total assets in 1957 were worth Rs.312.63 Crores which grew to
Rs.158004.72 Crores in 1997 : 500 times. This makes one thing amply clear that
the Govt. has a Class Character no matter what
kind of nomenclature is given to it – a monarchy , a dictatorship or a
democracy and it makes no difference from which strata of the society the
leader comes from , the only thing which counts is which Class is being
benefitted by the policy of the Govt. As of now India has more than 50
billionaires in terms of U.S. Dollars and has Lakhs of farmer suicide to hang
its head if shame has any meaning what-so-ever. Such sharp contradictions are
proof enough to say we live in Bourgeois/Landlord controlled system which needs
to be replaced through People’s Democratic Revolution to finish the undone work
of liberating the masses from the clutches of exploitation.
Seventies begun with a decisive
victory in a war against Pakistan resulting in a built-up of larger than life
personality – even the Opposition declared the then P.M. as an Avtaar of
GODDESS DURGA but, soon it all started to fade and wide spread unrest led by
Jay Prakash Narayan seeded deep down amongst cross section of society
along-side a Judgment by Allahabad High-Court declaring the election of P.M.
Mrs. Indira Gandhi as null and void, protests in every nook and corner of the
country created a situation for snatching away whatever little freedom people
enjoyed under the Constitution. There-by Emergency was promulgated in 1974 and
activists and leaders opposed to Govt. Policies were put behind Bars for
eighteen months. What was to be the end of EXPERIMENT OF DEMOCRACY, offered a
blessing in disguise for opposition to forge a unity for dislodging Congress
from the MONOPOLISTIC POWER POSITION.
However this opportunity could not
build upon a unified opposition for a long and fell apart for want of
alternative policies and resulted in Congress returning back with a thumping
majority. The aspirations of people were betrayed but, one aspect did emerge
that Congress is not an invincible Party and the developments offered other
forces in play to exert their ideologies. People friendly left remained
confined in their bastions but, the reactionary Communal forces succeeded in
building majority hype around birth place of RAM and emerged as a force to
capture power at the Centre. Though their efforts lasted only for 13 days –
still the passion and sensitivities helped Communal and Fascist outfits to
return back to the seat of power. This time for a bit longer period of 13
months, again the clash of ideologies forced them out. The passion had still
not been washed away and for the third time the RSS mask in BJP bore enough
clout amongst the people in general thus a Fascist party in garb of nationalist
image got into power but, this time they have learnt lessons from the past
mistakes and could successfully net in other power hungry regional parties who
were in no mood to lose their chance to a join the gang for appropriating loot
from people’s wealth. Eighties became witness to marriages of conveniences and
strengthening of Regional players which was seen in return of near similar
parties in a new format of United Progressive Alliance led by Congress but,
then it had one mismatching ideology of Left which withdrew it’s outside
support to the Govt. on issue of Nuclear Deal with U.S. This deal was to make
India a junior partner to Imperialist America and compromise on independent
Foreign Policy of the country. U.P.A.
Govt. survived on the floor of the parliament, with the support of
others waiting in the wings to climb on to the band-wagon of power.
Before further developments are
discussed, it is important to look into the Global happenings during the
earlier times. Emergence of USSR in 1917 as a Workers State compelled the
industrially advanced West to hand out social benefits to their workers for
fear of revolt against the exploitative Capitalist System in practice in those
countries but the disintegration of Socialist States gave Capitalists a ready
made platform for propaganda against socialist pattern of society and a few
went to the extent of declaring that Socialism has died and now there is no
other alternative to human progress but , CAPITALISM. This made a Uni-polar
World and U.S.A. the only force in-charge of Global Affairs. As is with all
false- hood, this theory too had a short life and the world faced an unparalleled
economic crisis in 2008. This Global Economic Crisis not only badly dented the
Capitalist Propaganda but also exposed to the world that Capitalism which is
based on 1% consuming and amassing 99% percent of global resources has no
answers to the basic and fundamental
needs of the remaining 99% of populace.
Early Nineties witnessed the fall of
Nehruvian Economic Model as it was destined. For it was merely an arrangement
for the intervening time period to compliment the Capital requirement for local
Industrialists, who were short of funds to invest in large core sector projects
which had long gestation period and huge Capital requirement, to build–up of
BIG-MONEY. This was possible only by way of either taxing people and through
deficit financing which resulted the purchasing power of the citizenry shrunk,
with no expansion of market it led to
closure of lakhs of manufacturing units. Another way adopted for collecting ‘BIG- ‘BIG-MONEY’ was
through the route of foreign borrowings – the result has been that now the
economy is entrapped in the web of foreign debt compelling the Govt. to
compromise the vital national interest of economic sovereignty , meaning that
development process got arrested . This surely built the much needed basic infrastructure
for the Indian Capitalist. As an obvious outcome - Nehruvian Economic Model
failed. Rajiv Gandhi’s Govt. and the era there-after were pushed the national
economy into a deeper ditch in a desperate attempt to come out of the debt
matrix as the path taken up was that of Pure Capitalism. Liberalization,
Privatization and Globalization has allowed speculative foreign capital, which
is fluid in nature and operates in fly-by- wire mode has immensely benefitted
the Monopoly Capitalists and further worsened the sufferings of the masses and
putting us in a Neo-Slavery. The Imperialists now have good enough control over
our independent decision making powers and the Govt. is in no position to work
for the interest of its people. It is solely the reason as to why the plight of
youth, farmers, women and workers is increasing every day and the Govt. seems
to have gone deaf and crippled; that’s what you call: POLICY PARALYSIS. No implementation
of Labor Laws, No employment for youth, No social security, No farmer friendly
Agriculture Policy, No protection to women and No rehabilitation of displaced;
is this what is expected of a Govt. Increasing prices of essential commodities
with ever increasing inflation , increasing corruption with ever new exposure
turning bigger than the previous one and increasing attacks on Schedule caste,
tribal’s and minorities ; where are we heading? Is there a way out? Could we
have a country of our dreams, do we have a system which will better our lives?
YES! The things though at their worst still don’t instill a ‘TINA AFFECT’,
there sure is an answer: SITA!
So, the question is whether such a
system is allowed to survive at the cost larger majority and what could be done
about it? One most essential requirement to get rid of this exploitative nexus
is to forge unity amongst the forces worst affected and hit by the system and
for it identification of friends along with isolation of forces and foes inimical
to people in general. Who will be allies in the necessitated change and who all
have vested interest in continuance of the system?
The further a section is from the
means of production the stake is greater , workers have nothing to lose but
their chains and so, have the biggest stake and their natural ally are the
farmers , particularly the landless farmers. Youth have their future at stake
and so, they too have lot in common to join the platform looking ahead for
getting rid of a stale, decaying and a dying capitalist regime. The others who
have big to gain are small traders, women and intellectuals. Now segregating
Industrialists, Corporate, Monopoly Capitalist, Criminals and Landlords is not
difficult but, how could the other enemies be left out: Communalists, Casteists
and Separatists, are individually and jointly creating the divide in the
society which works as an impediment in unification of tolling masses.
Through this unity of friendly
forces the first step is to bring about people’s revolution which will reorient
the agricultural sector and bring the fundamental changes in land ownership
status together with actual realization of their produce, with the increased
income and purchasing power the economy will expand resulting in increased
demand for industrial products, this will in turn create more jobs for the
youth and the cycle will thus be there for continuous betterment of living
conditions and a life worth human dignity. Last but, the foremost aspect is
that entire fight for the change will be led by the working class which will
form the core of the people’s unified struggle and so, workers have the biggest
responsibility to work beyond their economic demands , which often keep their
energies pre-occupied, towards political education which alone will empower
them with the much needed class consciousness without which no meaningful
change could be brought about. Where RAM failed SITA will Succeeded, Socialism
Is The Answer! And those wooing TINA, there is no alternative, will meet the
doom.
