Monday, June 7, 2010

Communist Manifesto

Just 2-3 days ago, I read 'Communist Manifesto'. And, I couldn't stop myself writing about such a beautiful ideology. It is an opinion-driven manuscript presenting Marx’s ideas of socialism and a well-scripted organization chart of society during 19th century. The pre-conceived notion of equality was over-throne by Marx’s proposal of power in hands of proletarians. He commented that the condition of society can not be improved hitherto labor unite and insurrect against the Bourgeoisies. His theory contains enough gravity to coup the riches, however, lacks pragmatism and political opportunism.
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engel have ornamented this book with a very superior quality of language. His theory, with slight modifications, has been used by many politico geniuses to produce new principles that were furthermore used to dethrone their governments. However, with the passage of time, these principles lost their sustainability and knelt to democracy. That is the fate met by many communist governments in 20th century.
Karl Marx intended to challenge the long history of autocratic tyranny and transform the world into an egalitarian society which is not more than a dream. Whatever, Marx has quoted in the manifesto has a universal appeal and shall be considered appropriate for all ages. He rightly appealed that capitalism is diminishing the beauty of religion, societal hierarchy, workmanship and moral obligations and gradually producing strange echelons based on materialistic relations.
The most interesting portion of the book is historical formations of Bourgeoisies and Proletarians, rise of capitalism along with town-culture and downfall of feudal lords. This chronological portrait truly explains how waves of times can change everything we see around us.
Success of this book is demonstrated by release of its regular versions in various languages. This book is a small spark required to create a huge holocaust. Various insurrections, inspired from this book, occurred in many countries and some of them succeeded in attaining political powers, as scripted by Karl Marx.
In my opinion, communism is perfection, which is impossible to achieve and while following such an idealistic path, we often make mistakes and fell in our own dug pits. Nowadays, this is exactly what we are observing. This theory contains manifold loopholes which are often used by politicos who tend the prescriptions according to their own advantages.