Election of 2016 was
very different in many ways especially with the active participation of the
political leaders in social media. Even though BJP had effectively used the
social media during 2014 elections, its influence in Kerala had peaked only in
current elections with the entry of communist party and party workers into the
social media. At first it may not sound wrong as any person and any party have
the right to market their ideology. But the most important factor which is
being neglected is the influence / penetration of capitalism and its ideologies
into Communism.
There was a time that
communist party was working among the poor, mobilizing them against the feudal
lords. It had helped the party to make its presence in many parts of the
country and to become the main opposition in the first government of
Independent India. However, they had failed to keep the momentum for one simple
reason that communism is getting diluted day by day. Today communism had become
a fantastic ideology that may never be able to make a comeback. This is mainly
because of the fact that the people who are propagating the ideas themselves
are being influenced by capitalism and their propagators.
For example, we have
seen lot of ideological fights happening across social media, say facebook. Facebook,
a company opened by a capitalist in United States of America had earned
millions in the name of communism and advertisements and discussions related to
Communist party and ideologies. The Communists use the same social media to
protest against the capitalists for one simple reason that majority of the
population are under the influence of the media which is owned by capitalists.
So, how can we expect Communism which diluted itself for promoting their
ideologies, to escape the people from exploitation from capitalists? But people
use the same social media and proudly say that they are the comrades who want
to bring the change in the society.
Another biggest threat
to Communist ideologies is the influence of Pseudo Communists who are always
under the influence of capitalism and its tempting yet deadly beauty. Middle
class of Kerala is the biggest example. Most of them are currently working
under the private companies which are owned by capitalists bourgeois who are settled
in India or abroad. They are aware of the fact that they are being exploited,
but they love being exploited just because of the materialistic pleasures that
capitalism is offering. Today we can see communists who are working for
capitalists, wearing the formals designed by capitalists, eating from Dominos/McDonalds/
any other hotel chain owned by capitalists using a mobile phone which is again
designed and manufactured by the capitalists with a capitalist sim which was
being purchased after falling in love with the advertisement of those
companies. They are be using a vehicle which is manufactured by a firm owned by
capitalists or even public transport of which most of the vehicles are still
made by the same capitalist firms even though owned by government (which is
again influenced by right wing ideologies). In simple words we can see that the
people are under the influence of market right from dawn (brushing with
colgate/close up) to desk (sleeping on a mattress) and still they talk about
communism. Most of the products that we consume today are the output of
systematic exploitation by the capitalists. Knowingly or unknowingly every
human being is being exploited by capitalism and they will continue to do the same for the simple reason there is always a demand for the same. But still the so called pseudo intellectuals never accept
about the influence and they continue discussing about a world which is not
under the influence of bourgeois.
Communism, at times,
failed to identify the real enemies who are causing the real threat to the
poor. Capitalism and its exploitation can exist in different sizes and forms at
different levels within a society. It exists in all the areas where there is a
probability of concentration of resources; be it wealth or power or anything
else. Even democracy is becoming oligarchy in this modern world. Communist
party which should have been acting vigilantly against these forces fails to
redesign itself to become any of those as ‘participative democracy’, explained
by Marx is something which is still unknown to the party. ‘Opium of Masses’ is
gaining strength in the world with the rise of terrorism across the globe. Thus
the fundamentals of communism are facing many challenges than never before and
the propagators of the socialist ideologists are being corrupted by the influence of the
capitalist class.
Even in the middle of
challenges it is really surprising that the party is able to still hold their
strength in a few pockets across the globe. But the political activities and
governance under the communist party never justifies their thoughts and action.
A party which claims to bring development in Kerala fails to create job within
Kerala. People have to migrate to other metro cities and to Middle East to get
a decent job which is mostly offered by private companies whose aim is profit maximization.
Revenue generation activities by government organizations are reducing day by
day with more than half of the government companies are in huge losses.
Government has to depend on World Bank and other Financial Institutions
promoted by First World Nations to meet their daily needs and it is quite sure
that these institutions will only protect the interest of those capitalist
countries. Slowly and steadily party ideologies are losing grounds against the
market forces and are facing a premature death. Communist party may be able to
survive, but the ideologies will never survive if a strong corrective action is
not taken by them and the party will fall into the hands of capitalism. Communist Party has won the election, but did the Communist ideology win? Remember, we had French Revolution and
Napoleon Boneparte was the end result; power and resources never reached to the arms of poor.
