Are they attracted by the thrill of
shouting slogans together against the rich, the authorities and the successful?
Is it the thrill of marching behind the
red flag throwing their fist up in the air opposing everything and whatever the party wants?
Do they know the fate of those societies which have
embraced it? Do they study how USSR –such a rich, vast nation with
abundant natural resources, became poor? The rulers adopted fascist tactics and
they eliminated thousands who stood on their way. Stalin is perhaps the greatest fascist
(along with Hitler) the world has ever seen. The dictatorship of the
proletariat is an authoritarian rule and there is no way one can differ or hold
a different view. Dissidents simply disappear as they do in Kerala even now. Do they know how East Germany (under communism) regressed and became an underdeveloped nation
while the West Germans (following market economy)became prosperous, rich and
developed? (Remember these nations enjoy the same geography, climate, they
speak the same language and the people belong to the same race. The only difference was one was forced to follow communism and the other capitalism. Look at
Cuba-how it turned into a poor country when its neighbor, the USA became the
most developed and most powerful nation on the earth! Look at Vietnam, Cambodia
and a dozen E. European nations which came under communism and became poor.
W. Bengal, Kerala and Tripura have
gone down the lane too. May be communism has made the people in these three states
lazy-slogan shouters clamoring for their rights and more pay but unwilling to
undertake proportional responsibility or increase production. People are not
willing to do the available work. They will
do what they want by force at their terms. Head load workers are examples for this sort of mentality. The
governments are there to give government jobs to the people (which will ensure
good pay and life-long pension without much work but with ample free time and
holidays). If the revenue of the state is (at the moment 75%) devoted for the salary
and pension for the ever-increasing employees, who are highly inefficient, will
the state advance? Not even 2% of the population can be accommodated in the
government sector. And the vast majority is poor unorganized peasants and
workers eking out a precarious existence. The ‘classless socialism’ has already
created two distinct classes here: the well-off government servants and the
poor unorganized peasants and workers.
No society has
improved without industrial advancement, and without the hard work of the
citizens. In these three states no industry gets started, those which were
established earlier have been forcibly locked up with labor disputes, protests,
work stoppages. People of these states
do not seem to love work; three people do what one can easily accomplish,
draining the state coffers. There is no
accountability, everyone will be paid equal amounts and will be promoted based
on their years of service disregarding merit or efficiency. At this rate if the remittances from those
employed abroad and outside stop, the state will become a pauper like the USSR two
decades back. I fail to understand what motivates our youngsters to line up
behind the parties; maybe they want government jobs ensuring a care-free life
with good pay and life-long pension. Or is it the sheer thrill of protesting against
anything and everything as they have no clear aim in life or profession?
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