IDEOLOGIES!!!

ideology is the the most impotrant factor in shaping ones character...perspective....and outlook..or so i thought in school days....
those were the days..yes i can never over the nostalgia..those were the best days of my life......
being a student of political science in plus 2, i was fortunate to be exposed to the theoretical background of ideologies galore.....ranging from socialism..to capitalism..to liberalism....to fascism....to the various facets of socialism....communism..and MARXISM.....

marxism was one ideology which facinated me immensely...its tenets made a great deal of sense to me....no other ideology was built on the foundations of exploitation...and the inherent schism...the principle of dialectical materialism was one aspect of marxism i was most facinated to...thesis...antithesis..synthesis...

so brimming with idealism..wanting to attain greater ideological maturity, i entered the portals of hindu college(derided by me in previous posts for entirely different set of reasons)...
college introduced me to AYN RAND.. to liberatarian philosophy...to leissez faire...(three years of training in neoclassical economics is bound to leave anyone questioning the judgement of indian policymakers..and their economic programmes)...

it sowed the seeds of confusion....thesis....antithesis....
confusion is good...it is indeed good.. for it forces you to look for answers...it forces you to hunt for it...

nonchalence to realism...i guess that was my problem...synthesis!!!

i started thinking....
ok! if marxism was all that practical then why did USSR fail????
maybe because dictatorship of proletariat did not mean dictatorship of ...stalin....of breznev....of khrushchev...et al....in the words of george orwell...equality did not really mean that some people are more equal than others.....
and if the principles of dialectics hold..then revolution would have been a natural progression...a historical climax...not a premeditated event....
revolt would have been against capitalists....in a capitalist state...not against monarchs.....in a state where capitalism has not grown much beyond the embryonic stage.........

why communism failed in east europe????for exactly the same reason..i suppose....
everyone seems to ignore the background against which revolution is stated to occur....

it seemed i had answers to some questions.....
so i wrote an article for college magazine discussing this antagonism..this confusion...and this dillema..
and what next..i am branded a communist!!!!

BRANDING is one thing i really hate about bigots and fanatics.....it creates scepticism...distrust...and is not healthy for intellectual growth of civil society....McCarthy and anti communist movt. in USA....the atrocities committes in USSR on those who did not agree""to walk on 2 legs"....have presented to us the extremes... the nadir....

so what i have learned is one simple lesson.....objectivity is the key to growth of intellect..and perspective....
ideology forces u to view everything from a lense.. the image is bound to be distorted in the absence of objectivity......

so the catch is i am not a marxist(for nw i believe that marxism or no marxism...only future has the answer ).....
i am not a liberatarian tooo....
cause if i am such a confused person and i have learned to look at everything with a greater degree of objectivity....then liberatarianism is my next TARGET....

more on it in the next blog.....

arrrrrrggggghhhhh

MTNL broadband SUCKS!!!!
i wrote a nice long article after days of deliberation... and when i try to publish it....boom...server down..i am sick of it...
i hope this one gets published without any hitch:(