The importance of a Dalit president

Very shortly, and most likely, India will see a Dalit president occupying the highest seat of power in India but what does this mean? What does it signify for the working masses of India and the non-ruling class. For all useful purposes, nothing at all since the Presidential chair is a rubber stamp in the Indian Parliamentary Bourgeois Democracy. It is not like the outgoing President did anything path breaking and caused a Constitutional crisis by not following the diktats of the elected leader, the Prime Minister. So, the question then is, if this tokenism should even be acknowledged? The answer is resounding in the affirmative and this is because it has to be understood in the following realms of significance.

The Dalit identity and ascent

In an interview to Kafila.org, Dalit ideologue Kancha Ilaiah had proclaimed, though erroneously in retrospect, that Dalits should stand behind Modi if it allows them a direct path into the houses of power. The rationale at that time is that the Liberals and Left parties had ignored Dalits thus far. This is of course correct without a doubt from a tactical perspective. From an ideological perspective, Kancha’s views were akin to stating that Communists must support Fascists to get rid of Liberals. But that is to miss the real point being made; if nothing else, Dalits taking the seat of Power and being in the seat of power. This is important to Dalits. This is especially important to project in light of a Hindu Fascist Govt that does intend to eliminate Dalit consciousness politically and economically. Thus, when the Hindus give the ceremonial post to a Dalit, who is their member, the Good Dalits and Bad Dalits are now separated. A Good Dalit for Hindus is one who is a loyal servant of the Hindus. A good servant can thus be rewarded with these piecemeal measures. A good Dalit can have a good life under the Hindu boots – as long as he looks away from the obvious atrocities the Hindus are religiously obliged to perpetrate upon his ilk. I draw a parallel here to an African American Republican party member for common reference. This is a person who has been “Whitened” from being a Slave because he has accepted his master’s voice as the “Way”. For the mass of common Dalits that are not in the realms of power, this distinction is invisible. The mechanism they see is of a Dalit who has broken through – to hell with the fact that it is by siding with the oppressor; in fact, maybe siding with the oppressor was the way all along? Maybe Ambedkar was wrong? All these points aside, it is still good that a Dalit will be the President because that is one less post that is occupied by a Brahmin. The endeavour should always be to ensure zero representation to and complete oppression politically and economically of Brahmins and their guard dogs the Kshatriya and their sponsors the Vaishyas.

The political angle.

Politically, the BJP has affected a masterstroke. Understand that the BJP knows the “Indian” DNA very well. It understands that the intellectuals’ line of argumentation is that of compulsive antagonism and that of the lumpen proletariat is compulsive obedience to power. The BJP calculated that the opposition would oppose the appointment and thus seize the Dalit narrative and paint the opposition as the Brahmin Elite – and the idiots did fall for it by antagonising compulsively and not objectively. In the backdrop of Sharanpur, this appointment then divorces the BJP from the UP State BJP that will now be seen as one odd cousin in the family. Again… it would be foolish not to notice how the Dalit is preferable to the Muslim for the North Indian Hindus. Thus, in the minds of the lumpen proletariat of Dalits, the Ambedkarite notion of Dalit-Muslim unity has fallen apart.

The Moral of the story

It is simple. The age old Indian Rope trick of fooling the audience continues: A token post, a head of state that is not elected by the masses and a rubber stamp that will only take orders from the inbred Brahmins in the BJP. But that is so much more than even what the Dalit movements themselves have achieved! The mighty orator Jignesh Mevani has spent more time attacking the Communists than attending to the rights of Dalits in Gujarat. Mayawati’s idiotic battle tactics in UP played to the BJP’s communal and caste polarisation tactics. As far as the world can see, the existent Ambedkarite movement is an impotent force that only demonstrates and sings songs at rallies. It has thus fallen into the JNU left trap of theatrics and polemics rather than action on the ground. It is only UP’s Bhim Army that is really providing direction to the Dalit Community but even that will fizzle out unless Armed Struggle against the Brahmin Hegemonic state begins soon.

Most important question is…. Why didn’t opposition come out with a Dalit leader? And thus, the Dalits walk further away from what Ambedkar taught into the chains of the inbred, backward, savarna

On the question of what is to be done with Brahminism….

India is a unique country on the Sociological landscape because it is one of the few countries in the world, along with others in South Asia, that practices institutionalised Feudalism. One of the great mistakes that we as common people make is to assume that Brahminical Feudalism is just simple Racism –  it is not! It is a well-crafted paradigm with its roots in economic enslavement. Before we proceed, it is important to understand economic systems from a Historical perspective.

The first economic systems were what we call Primitive Communism – a system of small groups of people producing and consuming as per their needs only. With increasing social groups, a need for more resources and manpower forced the social groups to start invading and enslaving other groups. Thus, the shift from Primitive Communism to Slavery as the Economic form. The fall of the Roman Empire and the spread of Christianity into Europe made Slavery a crime and inhuman. This is where we see the transition from Slavery to Feudalism – a system in Europe where the church mandated that no land can be owned as it was created by God but the custodians will be the feudal lords and those who work the land, serfs – because God said so the Priestly Class.  What was the difference between Feudalism and Slavery? Only that people could not be bought and sold but their productive output was still owned by their new de facto owners, the Lords.  The French Revolution here changes all this in the most radical way by violently destroying the rule of Kings, Lords and the Church. Thus is ushered in the economic system of Capitalism – where all labour is free to be bought and sold by the seller and buyer’s mutual agreement. We pause at this stage and return to India.

The Indian feudal system is what we call the Caste system today. The four castes: Brahmins (Priests), Kshatriyas (Warriors), Vaishyas (Traders), and Shudras (Laborers). Beyond this were the Ati-Shudras. At the face of it, it looks like just a medieval division of labour but time has shown that it is still a system of Slavery that was enshrined in the Hindu religion sanctified by the Brahmins who called the shots of what the religion was. Logically, one could argue that the Kshatriya would be the caste-in-charge because military power rested with them. This was never to be because of the sway of religion. Hinduism is what Brahmins define it as, not as what the majority decides. And if the Kshatriya had to rule, the people and armies needed the blessing of Religion to enshrine that rule. Thus, despite having Military Might, the warrior class remained servants to the Brahmins – much like a dog remains loyal to its owner despite sharing no equality with him or her. Caste is graded inequality and as you move down the hierarchy you are lower down the order to the point of being untouchable. But Why? Why did the Brahmin mandate this very pointless act? Simple, by degrading a human being, you remove that person’s humanity. By removing the person’s humanity, he is thus a slave and an animal. This is a time tested method used globally, be it the enslavement of Africa or the Nazi holocaust against Jews.

Here we must recall that every Feudal system in the world was destroyed and replaced with Capitalism. Why then did it continue in India? There are many reasons here.

First, there was no violent revolution that seized power – economic, political, and social – from the ruling triad of Brahmins, Warriors and Traders.

Second, the coming of the British was not a social revolution but an Imperialist Economic invasion and the low and subservient Labor suited their Capitalism just fine. Note here that Capitalism freed the European serf but collaborated with Feudalism and Slavery elsewhere in the world seamlessly to continue the legacy economic systems.

Thirdly: The Indian Independence movement, as revolutionary as it was, was not a movement for a complete end to Imperialism and Monarchic rule. Indian Independence simply replaced the British with the Brahmin. This of course was never the objective but the natural consequence of a Indian society that never wanted the end of Feudalism because it suited them not to be equal AND Hinduism blesses it.

Fourth: The Leadership of independent India was not a Socialist leadership – at best it can be defined as a Social Democratic one. What is the difference? A Socialist leadership would have consolidated the masses of India that had fought for India’s independence to further destroy the Hindu Caste System and its hegemony. The Social Democratic leadership by protecting the rights and the rule of the rich Bourgeoisie thus decided that India’s greatest enemy was the Socialists and Communists. Barring some pockets of India, Feudal Social Consciousness prevailed while the Capitalistic Mode of Production was practiced.

One could argue that Capitalism destroyed Feudalism and instituted separation of the church and state in Europe. So perhaps that is what is underway in India today as well? False!

No such change is happening. The change in Europe happened only because the economic and military prowess was seized from the ruling class by a mass revolt. In India, that did not happen so the Brahmins and ruling classes, just converted their Economic wealth into Industry and Property – sanctified as forever theirs by the Indian Republic.

In education, we promote the Brahminical practice of rote learning and not analytical, application based learning, thus creating a population that is still repeating what the Brahmins in power decide that you are good for – case in point, notice how most lower than Brahmin caste captains of industry are all foreign educated?

In Society, marriage is still within the same caste. In housing, people still live in caste based housing. In politics, you will see token to no representation of the working classes and Dalits. Even leaving Hinduism cannot change the stigma of caste as the same rotten system of the Brahmins was so reinforced that it exists there as well.

In summation, Caste, can only be destroyed by seizure of the Economic means of production from the Brahmins and their two servant castes. Here we must also ask whether a simple transition from Caste to a Class based society solves anything as well. Here then we must look at Socialism and Communism to make the final transition from Barbarism to Socialism, from a Society that discriminates based on how much you have to making human intellect and merit the only division, from moving away from the rule of Castes and the Moneyed to the rule of the people….A proletarian democracy!    

Dear OpIndia... Yes. I don't shed tears for Jawans that kill more Indians than a foreign force.

Flattering as it may be that OpIndia.com has decided to sanctify my Twitter suspension by claiming that I support the murder of 26 CRPF personnel in Chattisgarh, the point that this "Nationalists Anonymous" support group is trying to create a false equivalence between the two events.

Of course, my views on the massacre are indeed controversial but controversial because they require every Indian to question what their tax money is being used for and who it is used to kill.

Some plain and simple facts for the fake Nationalists in the country to ponder upon.

1. Why has the Indian security establishment consistently failed in preventing the murder of its own every six months? How can 3 years of inefficient Intelligence gathering be defended?

2. As I have said before, "No tribal or adivasi reads the Communist Manifesto or the Red Book before picking up the Gun. He and she picks up the gun because of what the State has heaped upon them."

3. Let us not behave like the CRPF and Army are in the Red Corridor on some Halloween Candy quest. They are there TO KILL people. That the Indian Establishment does not give you a weekly body count of who they kill is partly the reason for the singular outrage when they get it back every now and then. This is a war and people on both sides and civilians get killed in War.

4. I and other Indians are not beholden, duty bound, or constitutionally indebted to support the security apparatus of this country blindly. These security personnel have committed many an atrocity from Kunan Pashpora, to AFSPA fake encounters for Bonuses in the North East, Rapes and Molestations of Civilians wherever they are posted.

5. The Hindu Upper Caste love for the army is not because of any Nationalist construct inherently - as would be the case in any other country that has destroyed its Feudal Systems. The love is because the Army protects the Hegemony of the Brahmin, Baniya and their servants - the Kshatriyas.

6. Understand that the Indian army like our Railways is colonial legacy. An Army that is built upon Regionalism, Casteism, and an objective of Protecting the State and not its people. If you doubt that, note how may times the Indian Army is deployed to suppress Indians rather than to engage in external conflict.

7. The Indian Army upholds Brahminical Hegemony structurally by existing to protect the rule of the Brahminical Indian Parliament and its Bourgeois Democracy. It is made up of the Brahmin servant Castes of Rajputs, Marathas, Jats, etc at the Officer level to direct the lower Castes to ensure that the current system is intact at the barrel of a gun.

This is what the Security Establishment is. The Nationalist "Love for the Army" is only because it IS THE CASTE SYSTEM in living glory, the system that the Inbred Brahmin created... that the servant castes believe THEY command.

What is the solution? A People's Army - one that is made up and is commanded by the People of this Country, the Working Classes, the Poor, the Dalits, the Tribals and Adivasis - not the ruling elite. Consider this.... Tomorrow if India goes to War with Pakistan it is on the commands of an unelected President and a Prime Minister who commands only 30% of the popular vote. And in the event of a war, will protect the Ruling Elites, the Rich of this country, the Upper Castes first and the rest of the people later.

This would be an Army and Security Apparatus that Indians can truly respect. Not one commanded by the Colonial force that is Delhi. We need an Army that protects the People - Not the Brahminical system, where Delhi and Business interests supercede the Constitutional Rights of People.

(Of course....make no mistake about the fact that if a Dalit or Adivasi was made the head of the Army, the Hindu Fascist Terror Organisation RSS, would be the first to openly start an Armed Revolt. I would welcome that. So that every member of this group is executed publically like Mussolini was.)

Lal Salaam, Hul Johar, Jai Bhim, Inquilaab Zindabad! 

A Farewell to My Comrades...Maybe?

Comrades! Lal Salaam

It has been an incredible 24 hours for me because in that time, I have seen Comradeship and the Uniting of the Common people of India that is the edifice of the country and the ethos of Indianness. Communists, Socialists, Social Democrats, Liberal supporters from INC and other parties have all come together to show their dissent against Twitter’s suspension of my handle. Strangely, I even counted one Sanghi!

To bring you up-to-date, a sanghi handle parodying as Arvind Kejriwal reported me for an “offensive” tweet (https://twitter.com/arvindkrajiwal/status/858964009353170946) , which Twitter has acted against stating that it is against policy. I have appealed the suspension now, twice, since there has been no response to the initial request. I have been reported previously for quoting a Sanghi tweet that showed a sensitive image and Twitter apparently found my quoted tweet more vile than the image of a man with his throat cut.

What Twitter stands for and its dubious standards cannot be conclusively said for now. What I can say is that those who work at Twitter are also regular humans like you and I and might be given to their own political biases and pressures of mass reporting. This comes with the Territory; had there been no SM and we were putting our views out there in the real world, we would face Hindutva fascism one way or another.

Without launching into sermons, I just want to say this….

•          I have no regrets for what I have said or done in the past and should I return, I don’t intend to change anything.

•      I have no respect for Sanghis at all and will show them no mercy. In the past 4 years, I have been doxed twice at work by scum like Pradhan, Rita G, Ritu and the entire Radicalised, Army Housewives group (https://twitter.com/RitaG74/status/719738588242378753) . I face constant death threats. My female family members have faced rape threats, daily! Sanghis do this to incite fear in you and make you shut up – that and many of them are naturally low intelligence, lumpen rapists. They are radicalized religious nuts, no different from the Muslim Brotherhood, Klu Klux Klan, etc. This we must all remember and understand.

•         Whether I return or not is immaterial. My aim and objective of being on Twitter is not fame or followers. Since 2013 when I joined, I have considered Twitter a broadcast platform to warn people about the dangers of Hindutva and after 2014 to attempt to ensure people don’t make the same mistake again. If I do not return then it is upto every Non-Hindutva voice here to pick up my gun and continue the fight. This is not about me or any individual, it is about winning your country and constitution back!

•       It is poignant that on May Day, everyone of you the working class people came together in support of me with a hashtag #StandWithDasBolshevik. I never imagined that India would ever come out in such numbers for a Communist – not because of ideological bias but because sometimes you must stand for what is right. I only hope that our party-based political opposition had the same vision, the same vision and drive that gave this country independence from Imperialist Britain.

•       Finally, a message to the Sanghis… Celebrate this victory well for now. You know your own lot and how the same stick you used against me can and will be used against you. Should I come back, only hiding behind a cow can save you, if I do not come back, then where I have fallen a Hundred Others will take my place! Not because they have undying love for a Comrade but for the fact that a Comrade showed them… How to deal with Fascists and Who deals with Fascists best – An avowed, unapologetic, Communist!

Comrades from every party, Continue the struggle to Liberate India from Hindutva.

Lal Salaam, Hul Johar, Jai Bhim…. Comrades! Inquilaab Zindabad!

Leaked RSS document that calls for violence against Dalits, Communists, and Minorities

(Copy of Secret Circular No. 411/RO/303/11/RSS/C03, Translated from Tamil text, which appeared in Viduthalai Sunday Edition 26-3-1995; Thamizhaga Parayar Kural of April 1995; Namathu Urimai Murasu of April 1995 and Thiravida Samayam of May 1998) Sindusthan Times (Bulletin No.1 (English)/1998), pp. 47 to 51 This is the policy of RSS the mother of BJP

A copy of secret circular No. 411/RO/303/11/RSS/C03 is produced here below.

To local leaders

In addition to the old duties the following new duties are given. Certain instructions are modified. Teach these to patriots and volunteers. Send your reactions to the head quarters. After imparting these instructions to the members destroy these papers by burning.

1. Intensify activities to gather firearms and gunpowder.

2. To fight against the movements of Muslims and Ambedkarites, win over the SC/ST-s and the backward communities.

3. Propagate the ‘Hindutva’ concept among govt. officers.

4. ‘Hindutva’ concept should be promoted among medical practitioners. Instigate the doctors to use time-barred and fake medicines between SC/ST and Muslim patients. Inject poison into infants, born to SC/ST-s and shudras,npretending blood transfusion, so that they will be made invalids.

5. Arrange to chant the words ‘OM’ and ‘Jai Sreeram’ in places where infants of SC/ST-s and OBC’s are living.

6. Boycott functions, which oppose Hindutva and Brahmanism and pseudo secularism.

7. Instigate and encourage dealers who sell toddy, arrack, narcotics, lottery tickets, and gambling to promote their activities in areas where

SC/ST-s and OBC-s live in concentration. In addition to renovating old temples and building new temples, promote organizing religious functions and pujas in government offices. Plunder the mosques of Muslims and the worship places of non-Hindus.

8. Encourage SC/ST/OBC and Muslim women to practice prostitution.

9. Arrange to damage the physical and mental development of the school going children of the OBC/ST children of the OBC/SC/ST-s specially the children of the Ambedkarites by feeding them food and eatables mixed with poison with the help of teachers, volunteers and food vendors.

10. More and more of OBC/ST children should be admitted in our schools and they should be taught pro-Hindutva history.

11. Speed up instigating riots against Muslims, Ambedkarities and Buddhists. Such riots should be organized in places far away from where our

community people live, using new local gundas. Instigate police and Para-military personnel to attack those who are anti-Hindus.

12. During riots, SC/ST/Muslim women should be gang raped mercilessly, irrespective of your friendship or acquaintance. In this respect follow SuratModel.

13. Continue the work of burying idols and relics near the places of worship of non-Hindus, deep below in the soil, as you have been doing in the past. Approach the headquarters to substantiate that the churches, Muslim mosques and memorials are old Hindu temples.

14. Take initiative to bring out publications opposing Islam and Buddhism. Coin new false stories to substantiate that Ashoka was not a

Buddhist.

15. Anti-Brahmin literature, publications and newsletters or movements of backward communities, Ambedkarites and communists should be destroyed.Continue to oppose entry to such literature in public places and in governmentlibraries. Propagate our literature on Ambedkar between OBC/SC/ST-s.

16. As has been said earlier, let the stagnation of SC-s and ST-scontinue.

17. Distribute in a big way, stickers and Calendars with pictures of Rama and tracts on Rama.

18. Propagate superstitions between OBC/SC/ST-s. For this purpose, continue to avail the services of Sadhus and swamis.

19. Continue to convert Jains, Buddhists and Sikhs to Hinduism. Introduce the worship of Rama in Jain temples. In this work, follow the Patna

model. Report the progress in this matter to the head quarter.

20. We should attack communism, Communists SC/ST-s and shudras.

21. We should continue our rebellion against Mandal Commission commendations.

22. Provoke caste-riots among different caste-groups, particularly between SC/ST-s and OBC-s.

23. Continue to break the statues of Ambedkar.

24. The Chanakya rule should continue.

25. Indiscriminate love marriages should be organized among OBCs and Ambedkarites. We should show our organs to their women. We should kiss them. Weshould arrange screening dirty blue films, and promote use of narcotic drugs by them.

26. Continue mal-nutrition among SC/STs. As stated earlier, poison the toddy and arrack-drunk by them. Continue to poison the food taken by them.

27. We should strengthen our control on newspapers. The ‘Hindutva’concept should be taught to the editors of local newspapers and they should been encouraged to publish articles, opposing Islam, opposing Mandal Commission recommendations, supporting Hinduism and supporting puja of Rama.

28. We should enroll more and more of OBCs/ and ST members in such of the political parties, which support ‘Hindutva’. Before admitting them into these parties, they should be properly screened as usual.

29. We should win over Muslim writers, Muslim religious heads and OBCs who are opposed to Mandal Commission recommendations. We should propagate the concept of pseudo-secularism.

30. Businessmen and Pawnbrokers should work in such a way that the economic progress of non-Hindus is destroyed.

31. Continue to watch the activities of non-Hindus, who oppose “Hindus and Brahmins” and report about them to the head quarters.

32. Continue to kill those who oppose Hindus and Brahmins. As advised earlier, dispose off such dead bodies leaving no evidence of such murders.

33. Let full-moon day (Paurnima) meetings of volunteers continue.

34. Let the‘Whistling’ continue.

Jaisreeram”

A Reply to Ajaz Ashraf's Scroll article. No, Ajaz, we Communists will not go Liberal.

To wake up to anti-communist diatribe and barbs every morning has become par for the course post 2014 but to have to see it from the Liberal media never fails to fascinate. Of course, being a true Red blooded Marxist, I shall attempt to speak on fact and not ad hominem on this piece:

Why the CPI(M) needs to begin its transformation by dropping the word 'communist' from its name

To the point of the Indian Communist Parties being Social Democrats and not revolutionaries in the true meaning of Communism, this is a debate that Ajaz does have an ideological point. Yes, in essence, the CPIM is a social democratic party but Ajaz misses the point that a social democratic party also needs to wear its ideology on its sleeve. Now, Ajaz implies here that wearing your ideology on your sleeve is the problem because the Middle Classes have an image of repression and oppression that has been fed to them by liberal and bourgeois media. When I as a middle class person hear the word Communist, I have an image of an ideology that is the only one equipped to counter fascism and ensconces the alternative economics this world needs today. And in the end, if the CPIM “Syriza-ed” what would that mean? What is the ideology of Syriza anyway? Ajaz basically would like the Communist parties to be Liberals.

Thuggery and goonery of the Left! This is a famous one from the Right wing that liberals love to borrow as well. Countering on fact, West Bengal gave the Communists 7 terms of Rule. You cannot get 7 consecutive terms of rule by intimidating people into voting for you. 2 times at best and after that people will throw you out considering voting is done behind closed doors. And the fact that Nandigram and Singur cause the downfall of the CPIM busts that Intimidation Myth doled out by Liberal and Bourgeois writers. 

Curiously, Ajaz picks a convenient narrative to generalize and doesn’t look at Kerala and Tripura that is an anachronism to that narrative, of intimidated voters.

But of course, our “peace-loving” liberals who imposed emergency, dismissed the first democratically elected communist govt in Kerala, imprisoned hundreds and thousands of the same “erudite” communist party leaders during the emergency, and took out protest movements against Land Reforms in Kerala, would like to point a finger at Communist violence, is it? Well, let the murders of peaceful communists like Safdar Hashmi, the attacks by the RSS in Tallasery in Kerala, and the number of bombings in the same state by the right wing terrorists also tell us something. The Communists have lost more cadre to the Liberals and Right Wing than both of the others combined. If that evokes a reactive, combative spirit then well….we don’t have the might of the state behind us to attack like the Right and Liberals. And as I always say on Twitter, that combative spirit is what has kept the Red bastions free of the Communal atmosphere that Liberals always love to flirt with.

Comrade Karat’s critique on the failings of the left to invoke fervor in the middle classes is valid. I however would also add Prosenjit Bose’s analysis and critique of the wrongs of the Left. But Ajaz got the focus wrong. Communism is not an ideology of the Middle Class First Worldists-in-the-Third World, nor of the Bourgeois Liberals, Nor the Petty Bourgeoisie. It is essentially of the oppressed and working classes. That is the majority of India at 700 million+ people that are hopelessly impoverished, and more that are less than middle class facing a Neoliberal onslaught. So, let the middle classes live in a bubble of their believing they are the bourgeoisie feeding on the crumbs of the ruling classes. Time and Economic reality will turn them or burn them.

And in the end after attempting to distribute the spoils of war without the battle being over, Ajaz would have us believe that we Communists are needed in the battle against Hindutva (I assume he meant all religious fundamentalism but I wander into ad hominem…) Here Ajaz realizes that it is only the Communists who fight against Fascism, a lesson that goes well back to World War 2. The Liberals as they did then and they do now, want Fascism, but not to take them out of power. This balancing act, incidentally, is the reason for the Liberal downfall in India. There is no Liberal ideology except to make sure that neither Left nor Right survives in enough numbers to upset the Liberal Applecart. In India, the Liberals are more Right Friendly of course because that is where the money lies, in pandering to the Corporate, Upper Caste, and Upper Classes.

Let us just wrap this long series of paragraphs with one thought, Communism is not a “dying” ideology. If that was true then it has been over 20 years since the fall of the USSR and despite that Nepal just had a Communist revolution. Greece, Spain, Portugal, Venezuela, Cuba, Vietnam, Laos, Nepal, all have Communist leaders in power or flavours of leftists to add to the illustrious list.

A specter is haunting the world and that indeed is the specter of Communism.

The Objective of Society

 Philosophically, there is much impetus and purchase drafted upon the insular mind to try and place an objective and vision to every task, day, and existence of an individual. Appropriately, many fail this exercise until much later in their adulthood. Imagine then the tension upon sinews of the mind to create an objective for society;  a task that many will not understand , in isolated thought, until it is too irrelevant an excursion – one that the body does not allow of the mind’s will.

In this gap come the lubricant ideologies and philosophies like religion, political doctrine, economics, etc. These lubricants, as the purpose of lubricants go, allow the inertia of the insular mind to slide into a new state of enlightenment and alignment; alignment of the being with the environment and the larger collective.

Centuries have shown us that religion is, for all intents and purposes, the Political Manifesto of a Macabre Idiocy. There is no need for religious doctrine to follow any rule of sense and even the rules of gravity – that which grounds us – can be abandoned. What absolute chaos then ensues, inevitably, that this ideology takes root and defines what men and women can and cannot do as individuals and with each other. History therefore stands testament to the most Warped of Laws, Violent of Rule, and Illogical tenets of education that religion then imparts. Nevertheless, it was a stage in the existential dialectic of man. A thesis that was so cohesive that civilization itself needed this mortar for its foundations, worth mentioning of course that, what better way to legitimize the slavery and feudalism of medieval  times that the Will of God.

The keepers of the faith in their hallowed tombs of servitude - to that, which their senses say doesn’t exist; however, also faced the fact that every thesis meets it anti-thesis. Christ was, in that sense, the first political ideologue and perhaps the first Socialist of the “known” world as well.  And so it came to pass that his dissent would cause a Govt crackdown culminating in his being nailed to a cross – only for the reformation and eventual destruction of the religious order of the Old Testament.

It is incumbent upon one to pause and introduce the rogue called Political doctrine. Political doctrine as a reform to Religious Law is a concept that is asynchronous and not contiguous in succession. Events like the signing of the Magna Carta, the reduced influence of the Church against monarchy and Science were catalysts. Nevertheless, when the heralded change did come, it was the replacement of the God above with the one below – seemingly futile but significant because, in monarchies, a synthesis arises from the dialectic.

Economic doctrine brings us to the modern and post-modern era where political ideology can now, rightly, never be divorced from Politics: where how we as a society and our progress define our Law and vision – and sometimes our delusion.

One would be remiss at this point to not mention that the invention of an ideology of society and the masses or collective is a tectonic shift in Political Thinking. To that philosopher who decided that Economy cannot be divorced from the masses, that equality is obvious, and that democratic institutions cannot exist without the former two, there cannot be enough accolades. Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, Bukanin and all the women of the Suffrages movement must be lauded for their contributions.

This heralds a return to the question of Objectives of Society in the confines of the Modern State apparatus. Today, after successfully challenging the rule of the Capitalist machine for over 70 years, the world has regressed back into one where Liberalist economics rules supreme, but now called Neoliberalism. This economic model is Libertarian ideology in many ways until it twists the State to enforcing a, “Socialism of the Rich” But what is the point of an Economic Model that just remodels an old one. Thus we enter the realm of the Orwellian propaganda machine enforcing that which Marx warned us about. “Greed is Good,” “Yolo” and all such that has translated the objective of the State to a Silicon Valley startup. This is dangerous as society is not a business. The Objective of the State cannot be the profit motive. Progress cannot be defined in terms of revenue.

If one had to play the Devil’s advocate, the West follows this model; no matter how much it fails, it manages to economically spike every now and then to prove that Neoliberalism is a feasible model. But even these states only dared this venture after building their societies to such a level as to avoid Future Shocks. The West has built a society that will automatically revert back to a Socialist model because they are aware that it exists and works.

But if the reader is wondering, what about a permanent Socialist model instead? There can be no such thing, for the progress to Communism is incumbent up on the Politbureaus of the Collectives. Communism is that state where there is no State and we live in a Utopia.  A jarring concept to many but will be explained in a modern context. However, another answer to the question can be found in the rhetorical question: “What if the Objective of the State was only to advance, improve, and maintain Society?”