Ever
since the crisis that started in the USSR in the early 90s, Communism has been
on a steady decline all the world over. India
is no exception.
The
reason was that they failed to keep their ears to the ground. They failed to apply reason to politics and indulged
in empty demagogy.
Just
like the proof of the pudding is in the eating, whether the Communists stood
for the welfare of the downtrodden was up to the downtrodden to feel.
Whatever
media or other influential classes can propagate, the native intelligence of
the people can easily see through. If
the real feeling is there, it would percolate.
The hearts have a language, which is universal for all living beings. The rational minded persons fail to
understand that. Strategies will not
substitute real feeling and intention.
What started as a peoples movement had denigrated into a party politics.
As a
result what happened is that instead of real feeling for the masses, those who
came to power using the ideology to save the exploited, started chalking out
strategies to keep their hold on the power.
The continued hold on the power was expected to deliver the results – in
the long run.
But in
the long run, power only corrupts and more power corrupts all the more. Hence, by the time they were not yet
satisfied with the increasing and widening of their power base, their descend
had already started.
Before
they could open their doors to the heaven of their own dreams, they had been
toppled. That took away in its Tsunamic sweep, even what ever had been built for common good.
Time
and tide wait for no man.
Those
powers which have gained from the toppling of the Communists have also the same
in store for them. As long as they do
not deliver and keep their sight only in conquering new horizons, they will not
be able to assess the sand that gets swept away from under their very feet.
The nemesis
for every life is embedded within. It does not join enroute.
Communism
as a philosophy will not die. It stands
against exploitation, of all kinds. It
shall re emerge in some other form, in some other name. If only people can re-invent themselves and
be true to that philosophy.
And when the people who thought that a free economy is free, come to their real senses and understand that nothing is really free.
Till such time let the ideal rest in our hearts.
