Marxism & politically paralyzed Bengal

Textbook knowledge dictates, 'Marxism is the system of socialism of which the dominant feature is public ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange.'

All a 'ready-to-be-satisfied' বাঙালি বাবু need can be summed up in three magic words,“रोटी,कपड़ा ओर मकान.” So Marxism ideally should have been the ideal philosophy for us as it stresses on these basic things by shouting for equality & right of living like a human. Still despite being a Marxist-ruled state for 35 long years, in terms of development, education, self-dependence and & importantly inner satisfaction we are lagging behind.

“there is no Marxist philosophy & there never will,on the other hand,Marx is more important for philosophy than ever before” (Etienne Balibar in 1993).”

Why couldn't a Marxist government satisfy our lust of living? Is it only because of corrupt politicians ? or, may be we could have thought about making Marxism bengalised?

Having doubt?

Let me elaborate, one may be this argument is rubbish thinking Marxism is a global ideology as whatever is told by Marx is applicable to each & every possible society unaltered. But what twirls me is that there are contradictions among opinions of the learned ones themselves - “there is no Marxist philosophy and there never will,on the other hand,Marx is more important for philosophy than ever before” (Etienne Balibar in 1993)

Our rescuer from this perplexing philosophy is Karl Marx himself, “The philosophers have only interpreted the world,in various ways;the point is to change it”. Hence, rather than having indulged ourselves into any kind of theoretical “ঝামেলা ” we should have focus on the practical “करिश्मा” of Marxism.

Basic civic sense should have dictated to us to share the responsibility to build a Bengal which is truly politically rather good to say philosophically independent, without being dependent on any foreign ideology however famous it is. Such concept could have saved our face but only for a small amount of time, if we are not sensible enough to carry our own burden of thoughts, and it did.

Let's take another go at it,

What were the Marxist views of religion? Marx wrote, 'Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the feeling of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless circumstances.' But we bengalis though not ready to accept if asked, do remain deeply concerned about practicing our respective religion. Within a day we could not possibly free us from all the religion or caste based prejudices but we could try to make us believe a simple logic that the only possible religion of poor is starvation. No matter what government proposed for a certain community the actual situation remains the same.

Till the day we become politically aware, responsible and thoughtful nothing will change. It is easy to sit on a easy chair, nurturing a local news paper and comment mindlessly “এ দেশের কিছু হবে না” (the country will not be anything), but actual guts are showed when one try to enter politics to enforce change, if one think he/she can do better if he/she would have been in the same place. The great Novelist Bankim Chandra said somewhere, 'সমালোচনার অধিকার তারই আছে ,যে রচনা করতে সক্ষম' (One is only eligible to criticize if he/she can create), Let us be doers and not only critics.

Marxism allows us to recreate it there by making it perfect w.r.t. our society & mental structure. What no other political background does. There for it is according to me the only alternative to it is itself if we could edit it properly.And by this recreation, I mean bengalising Marxism. The son/daughter of the soils where from Kshudiram Bose to Surya Sen, from Tagore to Sukanta, from Acharya Jagadish to Ananda Mohan Basu born needs nothing more than a cause to fight for themselves. If we still don't rise up, only the lamentation of the great will remain true,

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