It is said that our brain consists of two parts. The left and the right. Left brain oriented people are considered to be logically configured, whereas the right brainers are artistically inclined. A few days back I was discussing “Singur” with a colleague in Kolkata, who was all in praise for the ruling party and its policies. He also happens to be a “grass root” worker of the party ( I am yet to understand the analogy of “grass root”; a tree root would be more reliable, I guess). During the conversation, he made a rather innocuous remark. “We, leftists are Left brain oriented. We think logically and have a more judicious view”. I agreed spontaneously. After all, how can a Left-ist be “right” minded ?”
The concept of socialism (which inspires to further attain the idealist state of Communism) tends to achieve it via many facets of “disruptional” change to current scenario through its policies of perceived “equality”. However, for the sake of making a note, the principal argument which led to uncovering of Marx ideology is the concept of workers, labourers, peasants being always in a position diagonally opposed to that of the capitalist. The assumption that a capitalist always tends to exploit the working class, which did hold true to a greater extent then led to widespread acceptance of this disruptive Marx ideology. More than a century later, there is utterly no need to emphasize that things have changed substantially, however “lefts” are still left. Anyways, as some wise man once said, if everybody is “right”, then there would be nothing “left”.
The concept of socialism (which inspires to further attain the idealist state of Communism) tends to achieve it via many facets of “disruptional” change to current scenario through its policies of perceived “equality”. However, for the sake of making a note, the principal argument which led to uncovering of Marx ideology is the concept of workers, labourers, peasants being always in a position diagonally opposed to that of the capitalist. The assumption that a capitalist always tends to exploit the working class, which did hold true to a greater extent then led to widespread acceptance of this disruptive Marx ideology. More than a century later, there is utterly no need to emphasize that things have changed substantially, however “lefts” are still left. Anyways, as some wise man once said, if everybody is “right”, then there would be nothing “left”.
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