What we do and what we should do!
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What we do and what we should do!
Published at Socialist Center (here) by Paramjeet Singh
Over 800 people (including children) have already been killed in Gaza (July 2014).
Over 800,000 were killed in Rwanda Genocide in 1994.
Around 2000 lost their lives in 2002 Godhra Riots (India, Gujarat).
Bolivia legalized child labor from the age of 10.
One-thirds of the world’s poor live in India.
67 people in the world are as wealthy as the world’s poorest 3.5 billion (Forbes article here)
202 million people are employed in the world. (The guardian article here)
We all know these things.
We all know that corruption exists. We all know that the police resort to brutality. We all know that women are raped ruthlessly. We all know that crime rate is high. We all know that the leadership of some countries is all about neoliberalism (even if it involves the blood of the citizens of other countries).
We think about them, tweet about them, write about them, speak about them, protest against them, cry our hearts out against them.
Does it change anything? No.
Of course! We need to call a wrong, a ‘wrong’. We need to condemn violations of human rights, we need to protest against the wrong things that happen in the world. We do need to raise our voice and say that “It is enough. We would not tolerate it anymore.” Yes. We need to do all these things.
But is that all? Will it change anything? Well, it hasn’t changed anything yet.
Those brave journalists who go to the ground zero to cover the atrocities committed by one side against the innocent people, small children, and helpless women, are doing a great job taking pictures and reporting realities to the world. It is crucial. Very crucial. We share those pictures and stories on the internet and, thus, spread awareness in the rest of the world. It is significant too. But does it stop the atrocities? No. So, what should we do to stop the “wrong” from being committed?
We need to realize the difference between the symptoms and the root cause of the problems. The solution lies not in the symptoms but the root cause. These aforementioned incidents (rapes, genocide, killings, poverty, hunger, unemployment, illiteracy etc.) are symptoms of a society with which something has gone wrong. What the hell has gone wrong with our world? Remember when we studied something about biology in the school! Something like: disease is what infects the body of a human being. Symptoms are what make us realize that one has got infected with the disease. That list in the beginning of this write-up shows only the symptoms of the world that has been infected with disease(s). No matter how much you try to discuss about or suppress the symptoms, the body will not get cured unless you cure the infection by destroying the “antigen” (a toxic substance). Now, how will you destroy the “antigen” that infects our world? In order to do this, we have to ‘diagnose’ the world and, thereafter, identify the real root cause i.e. the “antigen” infecting the world. Now, how will you ‘diagnose’ the world? We have to analyze the problems that we face today from a much deeper perspective. We have to see the causes behind the effects/actions. What happen in our society are the symptoms of the problems that we face. These symptoms reflect that something “wrong” in the current system that we have. In the said ‘diagnosis’ we have to reach that ‘something wrong’ because it is that ‘something wrong’ which is the cause of all the problems that we have today. Therefore, though you really need to and have to criticize and protest against the wrongs happening in the world, doing only that will not solve the problems. Every one of us should look deeper and through the veil that the ‘bad side’ doesn’t allow to be seen by us. We have to discard the reasoning that is advanced by the “bad side” to fool us. We have to catch hold of the culprit. We have to unveil the cause- the cause of all the troubles that we have in the world today; the cause that is neoliberalism and crony capitalism.
jondwhite wrote:I don't think rape is caused by capitalism.I think you will find aa lot of opposition to that statement, not least from Freddy Engels He argued that women’s oppression arose with the development of classes in society.
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