Once again, I should repent for not continuing my writings on politics, though much has happened since I wrote last August. The nuclear deal which everyone were pushing hard went to hibernation. This is not different from many other Indian policies which have a good start and soon gets pushed to the cellar either due to bureaucracy or conscious political intervention.
This political intervention is driven by some ideologies which each party is affiliated to, though strictly speaking recently the Indian parties grow like weeds without even having any ideology. But mostly parties which play in the national role have some ideology driving it (at least now). This topic is to discuss such ideologies and give a my color to each..
First, we need to understand that political ideology main purpose is to govern the people and make this world a better place to live. To reach this point there are(should be) numerous ways, it is just similar to Adi Sankaracharya teaching whose main theme is "there is no single way to salvation" (and his way is Advaitam). Thus accepting there is no single way to govern the people we will move further.
In today's world for some odd reasons making the world a better place to live is closely associated with having a decent bank account. Thus bringing the link between political ideology and economics. In the present world political ideology and economic policy for a country have intermixed, thus the division in ideologies is broadly based on economic policies.
Let us discuss four political ideologies in detail, namely capitalism, socialism, imperialism and communism.
Capitalism: As everyone knows capitalism is the main ideology of US. I recently came to know that capitalism was originally a brain child of Adam smith. In his famous book "The wealth of nations" he has described more in detail. His main punch line is "self-interest alone helps to achieve socially beneficial results". I guess this says all about capitalism. People to earn more should have some capital either in the form of knowledge or money and using this they grow. The government just stays as a silent spectator creating the environment for such people. Now the advantage is if you are talented only sky is the limit. Now the drawback, just imagine you want to leave a peaceful life just making sufficient earning to survive, but just because everyone surrounding you don't have the same mentality and start(want) to earn more they push the prices of the commodities causing inflation. Thus you will be indirectly be pushed to earn more. Therefore the conclusion is if you are not a materialistic person a capitalistic country will be difficult to adjust.
I guess this is already a long post will write later on other ideologies.
This political intervention is driven by some ideologies which each party is affiliated to, though strictly speaking recently the Indian parties grow like weeds without even having any ideology. But mostly parties which play in the national role have some ideology driving it (at least now). This topic is to discuss such ideologies and give a my color to each..
First, we need to understand that political ideology main purpose is to govern the people and make this world a better place to live. To reach this point there are(should be) numerous ways, it is just similar to Adi Sankaracharya teaching whose main theme is "there is no single way to salvation" (and his way is Advaitam). Thus accepting there is no single way to govern the people we will move further.
In today's world for some odd reasons making the world a better place to live is closely associated with having a decent bank account. Thus bringing the link between political ideology and economics. In the present world political ideology and economic policy for a country have intermixed, thus the division in ideologies is broadly based on economic policies.
Let us discuss four political ideologies in detail, namely capitalism, socialism, imperialism and communism.
Capitalism: As everyone knows capitalism is the main ideology of US. I recently came to know that capitalism was originally a brain child of Adam smith. In his famous book "The wealth of nations" he has described more in detail. His main punch line is "self-interest alone helps to achieve socially beneficial results". I guess this says all about capitalism. People to earn more should have some capital either in the form of knowledge or money and using this they grow. The government just stays as a silent spectator creating the environment for such people. Now the advantage is if you are talented only sky is the limit. Now the drawback, just imagine you want to leave a peaceful life just making sufficient earning to survive, but just because everyone surrounding you don't have the same mentality and start(want) to earn more they push the prices of the commodities causing inflation. Thus you will be indirectly be pushed to earn more. Therefore the conclusion is if you are not a materialistic person a capitalistic country will be difficult to adjust.
I guess this is already a long post will write later on other ideologies.
3 comments:
Every Ideology will be defined to say his pros and cons..can think what is the purpose of all ideology, is it make a group of people richer and another group down below them...a group to run the society and other to watch and follow..every it will take us.. we are remain the same we are till i we find the cells( unit of living being)
I don't belive the government's only job is to create an environment suitable for captilistic individuals, it should also make sure that the basic commodities required for living should be lower and the inflation should affect only the luxuries of life. America has definetly achieved this to greater extent(though I do not agree the means by which it achieves this). But a good governing body should be easily able to achieve this with a good tax management system.
Vidya,
Yeah I agree that the purpose of the government sldnt only be a silent spectator but an active participant too.
But in the blog, I only commented on a pro-captalistic government attitude towards developing the economy.
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