The recent
events especially post the election of 2019 are beginning to sound as nail in
the coffin of the left liberal ecosystem. The system that dominated for close
to seven decades since Independence is slowly getting dismantled. The abolition
of Article 370 followed by the Supreme Court judgment on Ayodhya which was subsequently
followed by PM Modi laying the foundation stone of the Ram Temple have each in
many ways signal a break from the Deracinate India project orchestrated by the
left over these years.
The left project
originates in its own version of White Man’s Burden. It was in 1852 or so when
Karl Marx put forth his views on the British rule in India. He believed that
Indians were in a primitive world and who worshipped a ‘monkey god’ a
derogatory reference to Lord Hanuman. Marx argued that the British had a
historical duty of civilizing the Indians and bringing them into the zone of
scientific thinking. Marxian scientific thinking rested on a paradigm of what
Marx believed to be a shift from a religious based order. Despite his advocacy
against religion in public, his postures against nationalism, his call to
workers across the world against capitalists, hardly anything worked in
practice. Vietnam built upon its nationalistic pride to defeat the US which in
its ideological pursuit had hardly anything going that would build a public
momentum in its favour. Bay of Pigs was crushed not because of the ‘workers
across the world unite’ but whipping up the Cuban pride. Soviet invocation of
extreme national pride helped Stalin save Stalingrad and turned the tide of
World War II. There have been isolated instances of global guerrillas operating
in countries in Africa or Spain in pursuit of communist revolution, but they
can be best described as paid mercenaries in most context. There might be an
idealistic one or two as captured in Hemmingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls but there
are exceptions. Che Guevera himself was a power mongering opportunist who
sought to find himself glory which he could perhaps never find himself.
Ironically, it was the very forces of capitalism which he detested and fought
in his life that created an industry around him making him a hero or an
anti-hero as the case might seem to be.
The left liberal
ecosystem at heart is about protecting Western supremacy and monopoly. The ideas
might sound appealing to the countries that became what came to be known as the
Third World. it was widely perceived that the communism was essentially
reaction to colonialism. There was some merit in the argument. Colonialism
followed the fruits of capitalism. It was insatiable appetite of capitalism
that drew colonial expansion across the world. Therefore, as communism was a
reaction to capitalism, it was essentially deemed as something anti-colonialism.
It is a different matter that communism did not abandon colonialism but perpetuated
its own brand of colonialism. Yet, the Russian Revolution of 1917 was perceived
as a unique experiment with people all over watching with great interest. The fact
that there could be a country without a king or a queen itself was something
novel to many outside Europe or US. It was seen as the answer of the proletariat
to the evils of colonialism.
Yet a feeling
persists somewhere that the left liberal school of thought in the Western world
modelling an antithesis of conservative thinking was more a smokescreen to lure
the newly independent countries into not growing militarily. They came up with
an idea of United Nations which was supposed to adjudicate any disputes between
countries. Countries can seek to resolve disputes peacefully at least on paper.
India was led into believing this on Kashmir, yet the only outcome was the
Western countries played one on each other, the result being Kashmir issues
persists even today. They perhaps glorified and exaggerated Gandhian movement
so that India can be morally tripped into following a path of so-called
non-violence. Indian leadership post independence was perhaps more than keen to
project and consolidate the Gandhian image it had built for itself and it
served the Western interests pretty well. By keeping India militarily weak,
they could ensure it might remain independent on paper but never emerge a
threat to the Western powers. In fact they built a constituency in India that
prided itself on the so-called Ganga Jamuna Tehzeeb or in another words, kind
of keeping Indians bogged down in the name of so called glorious Muslim
contribution to Indian culture.
In South Africa
for instance, they ensured that South Africa abandoned nuclear option. The reason
was ostensibly to promote the so called peace by South Africa as it embarked on
a new journey. Yet the real reason, was perhaps ensure South Africa would never
think about exercising nuclear option and thus not a threat to the western
world. African countries were encouraged to hand over their war criminals to
the International Crimes Court and Tribunals. Yet these tribunals never even
bothered to attempt bringing any Western leader to trial barring an odd Serb or
two during the height of the Yugoslav campaign. Japan in the name of preventing
another bout of imperialism was thrust a constitution that tied Japan both its
hands behind the back. Shinzo Abe despite his personal popularity and majority could
not change the Japanese constitution demonstrating the stranglehold of the left
liberals on the societal construct across the world.
Therefore as
evidence demonstrates, it is not about a genuine belief that they believe in
certain principles. Communism far from promoting peace or being an ideology of piece
competes with the other religion of peace in putting to death anyone it deems
its opponents. Sacrilege is punishable by death and this is precisely why not
many would venture to defect. One instance could be the way liberal system
hounded out MJ Akbar using his past indulgences since he broke the Omerta code
and joined the BJP. This is something true across many parts of the world. They
thrive on propagating so called political correctness. Yet their over-zealous
mission to perpetuate their power and cause seem to be running into diminishing
returns. The world would heave a sigh of relief when the liberal ideology faces
a natural or artificial death.
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