State and Democracy

None of the political movements or revolutions has succeeded in eliminating the State, or in the least, diminishing the overpowering inevitability of its necessity. Karl Marx would have been disappointed to death if he had lived to see the rise and fall of one of the most promising revolutions ever: the Bolshevik Revolution. In his theories, he had formulated the dissolution of this institution. On the contrary, the Communist revolutions have always glorified the power of the State. The spirit of democracy says that the aim of any State should be its gradual disappearance into the hands of a self-responsible people. But in reality, there have been no substantial efforts to make the people self-responsible. And the basic reason for this, as it stands in front of me, is that the taste of power tends to corrupt one and all. But to the mind of a theorist, only a question appeals; is it really possible to push forward towards a State-less nation? As far as now, I do believe, yes. And for that, I strongly feel that we should initiate some process of attaining a ‘party less’ democratic system. “But, how?”, remains the query. Please do post your ideas. Well, as things stand in India, the State is endeavouring quite hard for its own vanquishment, but into private hands!

Nationalism vaporizing

Today I am compelled to state that there is really no nationalist party in India, neither in dogma nor in policy. The Indian National Congress is bloody pacifist, Bharatiya Janata Party ticks around ‘Hindutva’, the Communist Parties are outwardly too dogmatic and would shed more tears if there is an attack on a ‘hapless’ country by NATO than they would when there’s any shattering explosion at home, and the less I say of the rest the better it will be – they are either too sectarian or regional in character. Why it seems that harbouring nationalistic feelings is a taboo – it is often taunted in the common public! This is a basic shortcoming in our education and upbringing, and all because we don’t have a State that can afford to be uncompromisingly nationalistic in its policies. This is still not a country where you can have the right to kill a person who disrespects the Mother!

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY TO YOU ALL
But how much do I wish we may have been happier! 60 yrs have passed we have attained freedom - political freedom. 60 yrs have passed the State just seems to have changed hands from the British to our political jobbers, not to us. 60 yrs have passed we haven't had the oppurtunity and guts and conditions to participate in the development of We, The Nation. 60 yrs have passed we have been denied the real spirit of independence and democracy - economic freedom, without which political freedom is almost of no use. 60 yrs have the State which promised to annihilate itself into the hands of the people, who constitutionally hold the sovereignty, but is hell bent on its disappearance into private hands.