Political philosophies continued....

This is in continuation to my earlier post on political philosophies and my color to it.

Now let us see the other ideology namely Communism.

Communism: Nobody needs an introduction to what communism stands for as some point of time everybody in this world would have personally encountered it. Communism is supposedly a brain child of Karl Marx. The main purpose of the communism is to create a class less society where everybody is treated alike. In this ideology, the whole set of people are divided into two class namely Bourgeoisie and proletarian. This division is equivalent to the ruling and working class. A sect of people who believe in developing a classless society are called comrades and the proletarian group with the intellectual help from these comrades make a revolution against the bourgeoisie.

But there are several self-contradictions in my opinion on this theory, the foremost is, assuming that a revolution against the bourgeoisie has happened and the proletarian has won. Now to maintain law and order these comrades start to take responsibility and it leads an evolution of these comrades equivalent to an imperialistic rulers. Thus now these comrades who wanted to create a classless society have themselves created a new class namely the political class. Thus the theory itself has some self-contradicting property. This was practically seen after 1919 Russian revolution where Stalin took over the reign of Russia and many presently see the undemocratic movement in China.

And being an Indian I need to point out some examples in India, many would have read the take over of nandigram in November by the comrades where it has becomes the comrades vs non-comrades. And recently in kerala where the state CPI unit was in a killing spree in Kannur against section of another political ideology.

Now after giving the fundamental pillar on which communism was build, it is good to give an introduction to the different kinds of communism. Basically this division is based on the fact that, to achieve the universal classless society there are numerous ways and some are listed as follows:

• Leninism
• Marxism
• Maoism
• Stalinism

Out the above the Maoism is what is seen in Nepal and different parts of India in the form of Naxalism. The main belief of Maoism is the classless society can be achieved only by armed struggle. The founder of such a way is Mao Zedong from China and hence the name Maoism. The people who follow are called as Maoist.

But nevertheless personally I need to appreciate the communism ideology(though not practically viable) it takes into account the human sympathy.

People who follow communism are exotic individuals who are mostly intellectuals which in other words means they are good in writing blogs/columns/comments but never would have worked in the field. This is my opinion.

Let us see the other two ideology namely Socialism and Imperialism in forthcoming posts.