SOURCE:
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(This
article is based on the book written by Marxist leader P. Kesavan Nair.
He is frustrated with Marxism and his expose has become a bestseller in
Malayalam.)
As
he seems, unlike other communist-turned-anti-communists, Nair is never
emotional. His critical narration exposes Marxism. Cleverly he quotes
Bertrand Russell.
“Russell was one of the greatest
scholars of 20th century. Philosopher, mathematician, writer, etc., his
battles for world peace are legendary. Russell disapproved and
dissented Marxism till his end. The history gave flamboyant approval to
Russell’s criticism on Marxism. His reservations against communist
governments are harsher than against Marxism. Russell had been seeking
answer to two questions:
1. Whether Marxism is truth.
2. The implementation of that gave human beings peace and happiness.
In
the celebrated article ‘Why I am not Communist’, Russell quests for the
answer. Marxism is not only not truth but also it supplies only chaos,
were his findings. The history of socialist governments and Marxism
justify the findings.”
“The concept of
dialectical materialism and historical materialism of Marx do not merge
with the philosophy originated from the modern science,” Nair’s theoretical analysis
goes on. “Marx imagined that the dialective materialism is a law which
rules the universe. He also considered it a universal force which rules
the human history, independent of human ambitions. It is the same value
that religion gives to God’s rules, that the Marx gives to the
dialective materialism. The communists misunderstood the dialective
materialism as the science of science. This history-discarded principle
is still the basic principle of the strategy and swindle of the
communists. The approach of the communists, snuggling the failed
techniques, is highly conservative’, Kesavan Nair swears.
From the theory he comes to the epitomes.
“The incidents in the socialist countries proved the theory and
practice of Marxism has no correlation. The destruction of Soviet Union
and Eastern Europe are examples. In regard to the Marxist theories,
these incidents are very important. According to the Marxian view the
theory is to be proved through practice. In that view, the devastation
in Soviet Union and Eastern Europe proves that in practice the Marxian
theory is a failure. In those countries and in China the practice of
Marxism ended in the bullying of predominance of party leaders and
their gourmet pursue. Communist party leaders rejoiced in luxury,
extravagance, corruption, hedonism and wealth. Marxism was
establishmentlised in socialist countries. In China so-called
market-socialism is going on. Economy is capitalism while the political
system is ‘socialism’ !
In
capitalist countries the monopolists control the economical-political
systems. But in Marxism the economy decides politics. But Chinese
communist party says that the political system is decided by economic
system. What an irony! In China the party leaders are the shareholders
or veneer owners of the industrial-commercial establishments.”
“Imperialism
is the apex state of capitalism, Leninism says. Theoretically and
pragmatically the prime opponent of communism is imperialism. America
is the main envoy of imperialism. But the most favoured nation
of America is China. America’s enormous investments flows into China.
Virtually now-a-days China is under the American boots. Red
China spread red carpet to Henry Kissinger, Nixon, George Bush and Bill
Clinton and now to the junior Bush. Under the leadership of Communist
party, capitalism is bullying China. In normal capitalist countries
‘independent democracy’ is the camouflage of capitalism. In China the
camouflage is ‘communism’.”
“It was not with the people’s involvement the 1917 October revolution cropped up in Russia.
It was a planned, conspired sabotage against the Kerenski government by
the Bolshevik party led by Lenin during the tail end of first World
War. Lenin and those intellectuals around him depicted it as a
labour-class revolution. Lenin who came to power in Russia became the
unquestionable leader of international Communism through shortcuts. After
Lenin, more autocratically than Tsar, annihilating all the old
revolutionarists, Stalin established the ‘Commissar’ empire. The
brutality of Stalin beneath the iron curtain is indescribable.
It was Khrushchev who lifted the iron curtain a little through his
confessing speech in the 20th party congress of CPSU. The artists and
writers who pointed out the autocracy of communist rule were branded as
the enemies of working-class.
The 75-year-long despotism of Communist rule ended up not due to any external force, but by the natives themselves.”
“The
government led by Lenin in the post-revolutionary period also was an
oppression machine. The governmental terrorism was at its zenith when
it was ruled by Stalin. With the rule of Stalin the identity of
individuals waned out. The emotion, likes and dislikes, independent personality, the value of life, etc, become taboos. In the working-class totalitarianism, an individual withers to a scapegoat to scarify in the revolution.”
The reason of becoming of Communist leaders as autocrats, is to be sought in the concept of Marx about revolution. Marxism opened up a vast vista for autocracy. ‘Labour-class-totalitarianism’
was brought about by removing the existing governments, and those who
criticise such labour-class governments were, without any mercy,
annihilated or wiped off. That were the basic lessons taught by Marx
and Angels. In Communist countries, all those reign on the saddle of
power become autocrats. Workmen and farmers have no role in the
Governments. The ruling Communist leaders themselves become a ‘Ruling
class’.
‘The Communists give an impression that, the
working-class-totalitarianism is a rule of the majority. Not at least
one example is available to show that the Communist Government is the
equipment of the majority. During the devastation period of
the Soviet Union, the apology of CPSU is worth notable. ‘All country
men’ narrowed to ‘working-class’. ‘Party’ constricted to its central
committee, central committee to Politburo, Politburo to the General
Secretary. Working-class totalitarianism and democratic-centralisation
is the foundation. Democratic-centralisation transformed to the
power-centralisation of the Secretary. In democratic-centralisation the
difference between ‘upper’ and ‘lower’ become severe.
The directions from ‘up’s are strict orders. Those who are in the lower committees are the slaves of upper committees.
‘Between
1825 and 1917, under the rule of Tsar, the total slay was 6321. But,
after the 1917 revolution, within the two months of 1918, the ‘red
terrorism’ declared officially by Lenin did 15,000 killings
.
In the famine occurred due to the implementation of collective farming
in 1932-33, the total carnage was 60 lakhs. In the cleaning process
done by the party bumped off 7,20,000 people. Between 1934 and 1941, 70
lakhs innocent people were jailed in the notorious ‘Gulags’. Of them
the majority found their end within that camps. When Stalin expires
27.5 lakhs prisoners were in the Gulags.
For vindictiveness towards their own people, the Communist leaders are more cruel than those of capitalists countries. In the famous book ‘Gulag Archipelago’, the celebrated writer Solzhenitsyn imparts that,
6 crores people were put to sleep in the Communist experiment in Russia due to the cruelty of the governments.’
‘During
the era of Tsar, the Russia was the granary of Europe. 1/6th land of
the earth, with plentiful natural resources and minimal populace were
the blessings of Soviet Union. Though they were ahead in Astronomy,
Nuclear physics and Armoury, Soviet Union was trailing behind in
agriculture and industry. Under Communists’ rule the agony of Soviet
people was relentless.
Everything
was in dearth. From bread to butter people queued up for hours. The
Russian breadlines were notorious. Two crores of people involved in
black marketing. Meanwhile curious voices for food and clothing were
muffled like anything. During the rule of Communists’,
the workers and farmers of Soviet Union got only chains but no new world.’
‘The
turmoil is similar in China, Cambodia, North Korea and Eastern Europe.
In China, the cultural revolution bestowed mass slaughter. Including
Liu Shaoqi, the No.2 in the party leadership, with other top leaders (
the foes of Mao), one crore pretty ‘comrades’ were numbed in the name of cultural revolutions.A section of the world still believe that the toll is three crores. It is pity to find that those who killed and kill are Communists.
In
the ‘‘Great Leap Forward’’, lead by Mao, due to famine, another four
crores of people dead. Nobody knows that, how many people were killed
in Tiananmen square.
‘The Pol Pot, the leader of Cambodian Communist party rejoiced by heaping skulls and bones in the ‘killing fields’.
During his regime, 30 million people were slaughtered. The red
terrorism ran riot in north Korea and Eastern Europe.’ ‘The ideas and
opinions of not of them were suppressed by Communism. Talented writers
and scientists were forced to flee from those countries.
‘Though
the pre-streams are there, Marxism did not expounded in Western Europe.
Though the political set up were based on Capitalism, Communism could
not mature there. In the capitalist countries also, they could not
mellowed. The poverty in the undeveloped & under developed
countries welcome Communism, says Russell.
Communism
is the philosophy of poverty. It is the philosophy of insurgence and
hatred. Poverty and starvation usher the Communist devil and its
proliferation can be stopped only by poverty eradication.’
‘The
Marxism exported by the Communist totalitarianism-Government of Soviet
Union to the countries like India, turned up like a bad penny as opium
to the so called left intellectuals. They betrayed their poor brothers
and sisters with its intoxication’.
(The author is a practising lawyer in Kerala High Court and Editor of ‘Neethi’ Magazine.)
