Communism – Lies, generalities and negativities

Although idea of communism was born in middle of nineteenth century, it actually became immensely successful with establishment of communist regime in the then USSR. It spread like wildfire in the world and communist states organized themselves into a block to oppose the expansionist and capitalist west. It is a matter of some satisfaction that it is on the wane. It would be interesting to delve into some reasons for success and now retreat of communism.

First of all it is to be accepted that human mind is a complex web of emotions. Some emotions are positive and constructive e.g. love, compassion, friendship, tolerance, desire to cooperate and ability to co-exist with others. But at the same time there are several negative emotions like anger, hatred, jealousy, depression, sloth etc.

Secondly this is human nature that it is very easy to invoke negativity in the mind but it is very difficult to appeal to the positive human emotions. The secret of success of communism lies in the fact that it works only on the negativities in the human mind.

For example if a Mukesh Ambani spends Rs. 1500 crores on his son’s pre-wedding ceremony almost entire country became jealous, overtly or covertly. It became an issue dominating prime time on all TV news channels for days. A common man on the street was jealous and so was owner of a mid-sized industry having net worth of a few hundred crore rupees.

The 1967 Naxalbari movement was mother of the Maoist armed struggle in India. It was headed by Charu Mazumdar. A system of share cropping was prevalent in West Bengal. Land was owned by landlords and share croppers hired the land for raising crop. A major portion of the yield was taken away by the landlords leaving the real farmers in penury.

Commies invoked negative emotions and fuelled them with ease. The game is still going on. Hundreds of young men and women regularly hit the street demanding salaried government jobs. They are fed the falsehood that it is the job of the ruling dispensation, whichever political party it may belong to, to give them secure jobs in public sector. They get offended by the word employment because it entails hard work. Millions of young people with inadequate education, having no skills or motivation, are made jealous of those who somehow have got a public sector or government job.

Another fallacy spread by communists is the notion of equality. Equality is against nature. Diversity is an important function of nature. There are approximate 7 billion people presently living on this earth. Each one of them has ten fingers (barring very few) and thus mankind has mind boggling 70 billion (7000 crore) finger prints. These 70 billion finger prints are unique and not a single matches with any other. Artificial items can be similar. Any two ball pens of the same model will be exact replica of each other. So will be cars, chairs, cycles so on so forth.

But those born in nature cannot be equals. So much so that two leaves of a tree will never be similar. Leaves have minute veins on them similar to lines of palm of a human hand. These too have different patterns and make any two leaves different. Communists talk of bringing about equality of wealth but it is neither possible nor practical.

The communist scripture (! – This is an oxymoron) Das Capital was published in 1967 in Germany. It immediately appealed to deprived class in a feudal and exploitative society and became popular all over the world including America. Andrew Carnegie was a nineteenth century industrialist in America. He was the richest man on the earth in his time and is said to be the first billionaire in American history. One day a man came to his office who was under the influence of communist idea of exploitation and equality.

He started abusing and condemning Carnegie and asked him to distribute his wealth amongst poor of the world. Carnegie coolly took out a dollar, handed over it to the man and asked him to leave. Carnegie gave a lesson to the communists, though sarcastically, that even if the richest man on the earth distributes his wealth amongst poor, each one may not get more than a dollar which may not be enough to get his family food for one time.

Distribution of wealth may sound very justified but it is a bad idea, based on jealousy and promotes sloth. Gainful employment opportunities can be generated only through enterprise and entrepreneurship. This is a purely capitalist idea, much condemned, but still the best idea to solve many problems of the world. It may have its own draw backs but it is the only practical idea. American writer Ayan Rand has named her book, “Capitalism The Unknown Ideal”.

While on communist ideal of equality, one cannot forget British satirist George Orwell. His famous book, the Animal Farm, is a slap on the face of communists.

The story goes that a bunch of pigs takeover an animal farm on the promise of making all animals equal. They became the ruling class enjoying all the perks and privileges. The pigs are questioned by the exploited masses. The reply given is one of the famous quotes of all time. The reply is, “All are equal but some are more equal than others”.

This applies to ruling elite of all communist regimes in the world, past and present. This writer has seen this phenomenon first hand in a workers’ union of the public sector bank where he worked before retirement. The union leaders, without exceptions, were more equal.

They did not work and the management did not have the courage to raise a figure. It was fashionable to call pen down strikes at branch level. The best part is that a union leader was for life. Elections to union posts were done by voice votes and never by secret ballet. So much for euqlity.

Osho (also known as Acharya Rajnish) was once asked, “Human beings are born different. Do they have different capacities to meditate?”. Osho replied that living a life is a race and people do have different capacities and capabilities. But meditation is not a race. It is dropping all efforts and be with self”.

True equality is possible at spiritual level only. It may sound controversial but needs to be pondered upon. It is reiterated that the communist idea of equality is mischievous and dangerous. It appeals only because it is propagated on the basis of negative emotion jealousy. It is very easy to turn jealousy into and anger and anger into violence. Mao famously said, “Power flows from the barrel of a gun”.

Communists don’t believe in fair and just means to achieve their ends. The objective is all important and needs to be achieved by all means including false propaganda, intimidation and violence. Suppression is similar tool. Once one joins them, they expect total submission.

Is communism on decline? The writer thinks, yes they are on the decline. The modern educated and inspirational youth easily sees through their falsehoods and are generally refusing to join them. Quite satisfactory.

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Lalit Wadher

Columnist - Writers For The Nation
Retired Banker
Raipur, Chhattisgarh