The leftists love to idealise
and that is very good. We all aspire to teach our own children the right ways
of life through learning History and follow the footsteps of the great
personalities world-wide.
In Bengal this ‘idealisation’
by the communists is nothing but a vaunt luxury for the past few decades
because the so-called leftists here have completely forgotten their social
responsibilities to upgrade their perspectives according to the global changes
that no-one can stop. They are still so very rigid in their own stand that they
still argue in favour of abolition of English language study from the primary
level of school education, or the ridiculous movement to stop the ubiquitous
invasion of the computers in the offices of the state and try to justify these
‘tragic flaws’ with many more to add. The handful of true communists who have
been upgrading their visions and in criticisms of such suicidal attempts to
stop the great fall of the grand commune, with wise premonitions, were
scornfully rejected in person and view. What the communists cannot endure is
'self-criticism'. They started expecting the leaflets interpreting the
everlasting social paradigms as had been laid down by Marx and Lenin (I have
direct experiences of many communists of the state pronouncing 'Lenin' as
'Lelin'; sometimes 'pure linen' called as 'pure Lenin') to be mugged up by the
people at large. They pitifully failed to inculcate the modern social
perspectives in the light of the socio-political theories of Marx and Lenin.
And in doing so, unknowingly, they have turned this entirely flexible and
invaluable philosophy into a parallel extreme 'religion'. It remains no longer
a social theory where a detrimental ill-force is to be resisted by force only,
where force does not have any conflict with knowledge and wisdom. We have heard
stories on Swami Vivekananda. Imperative that he always believed in peace, and
still reacted against detrimental force with force. We have heard similar
stories on Sir Asutosh Mukhopadhyay, Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar and of course, Raja
Rammohan Roy and the list never ends. Did they all not believe in peace? In
fact, I believe that Gandhi's non-violence was also a huge man-force that
outdid the inappropriate and miniscule proportion of the British force.
Knowledge works to the limits
of those who are educated enough, and in limited scopes, not beyond that.
Non-violence guarantees zero loss of human lives but it is the show of a huge
force against which violent devices are just too scanty. Every politician, diplomat
and citizen know that, to curb a civil problem, no administration dare or
afford to ignite and launch missiles or atomic bombs. Even an illiterate
citizen of the state knows well that, including her/himself, the Indian social
standards do not allow a remarkably pitiful percentage of the Indian mass to avail
proper education.
In such a state when the
political stand of the leftists is only to blame it all on the lack of
knowledge in the oppositions from their very own subjective perspectives,
practically doing nothing commensurate to remove the existing force of
Governance, the inevitable is the rejection by the people in the ballot
boxes/EVM machines.
Until and unless the leftists
in Bengal refurbish themselves, the entire left-legion will walk towards
extinction. Its first step to survive is to start believing in Marxism and
other predominant leftist philosophies and theories as ever-evolving scientific
theories like Darwinism, instead of making an eternal futile endeavour to force
innocent and illiterate people to take it as a parallel religion to the existing
ones. In that way, the power communism is highly diluted and people have
stopped being ideological fools as they believe more in the moral and pragmatic
reflections of the ideologies in the modern society.
- Arya Chatterjee
Read and think about the following lines. The leftists in Bengal have indulged this for decades to be on the side of the poor:
“It is true, of course, that the law is also frequently broken by the propertied and the wealthy, that is, by those who claim to be proper citizens inhabiting civil society. Thus, municipal building regulations, trade regulations, and tax laws are widely believed to be broken by the urban rich, many of whom, being influential and well connected, even flaunt their impunity. But these violations are unable to mobilize the moral justification that the illegalities of the poor manage to do in the arena of democratic politics. Indeed, the urban poor point to the violations practised by the rich as evidence not of the irrelevance of a moral order but of the unfair exceptions made by the authorities in favour of the rich; and, to restore the balance of fairness, they demand that similar exceptions be made for the poor. The rich usually defend their violations by corruption, evasion, or the blatant use of force; rarely can they make them objects of negotiation in political society.
From :
“Lineage of Political Society”
Partha Chatterjee
“এটা অবশ্যই সত্য যে, আইন প্রায়শই ভঙ্গ করা হয় সম্পত্তির অধিকারী এবং ধনীদের দ্বারা, অর্থাৎ যারা নাগরিক সমাজে বসবাসকারী সঠিক নাগরিক বলে দাবি করে। এইভাবে, মিউনিসিপ্যাল বিল্ডিং রেগুলেশন, ট্রেড রেগুলেশন, এবং ট্যাক্স আইন ব্যাপকভাবে শহুরে ধনী ব্যক্তিদের দ্বারা ভঙ্গ করা হয় বলে বিশ্বাস করা হয়, যাদের মধ্যে অনেকেই প্রভাবশালী এবং ভালভাবে যুক্ত, এমনকি তাদের দায়মুক্তি প্রকাশ করে। কিন্তু এই লঙ্ঘনগুলি গণতান্ত্রিক রাজনীতির ময়দানে গরীবদের বেআইনিতাগুলি যে নৈতিক ন্যায্যতা পরিচালনা করতে পারে তা একত্রিত করতে অক্ষম। প্রকৃতপক্ষে, শহুরে দরিদ্ররা নৈতিক আদেশের অপ্রাসঙ্গিকতার প্রমাণ হিসাবে ধনীদের দ্বারা চর্চা করা লঙ্ঘনের দিকে ইঙ্গিত করে না বরং ধনীদের পক্ষে কর্তৃপক্ষের দ্বারা করা অন্যায্য ব্যতিক্রমগুলির প্রমাণ হিসাবে; এবং, ন্যায্যতার ভারসাম্য পুনরুদ্ধার করতে, তারা দরিদ্রদের জন্য অনুরূপ ব্যতিক্রম করার দাবি জানায়। ধনীরা সাধারণত দুর্নীতি, ফাঁকি বা বল প্রয়োগের মাধ্যমে তাদের লঙ্ঘনকে রক্ষা করে; কদাচিৎ তারা তাদের রাজনৈতিক সমাজে আলোচনার বস্তুতে পরিণত করতে পারে”।
