Many a times we come to hear/read about cruelty, corruption,
crimes, and other form of actions that takes the whole humanity back in time (in
terms of technological/mental/economical/conscience development). Most of us
want such things to be eradicated. In fact, we want to remove all the evil from
its very root. However, we are never able to find its roots.
And then, we come across many things that go
antagonistically with these things. Revolution! We talk about revolution. We
find hope in revolution. Yes! There is hope in revolution. There is always a
ray of hope in the actions, which were never tried. And we have seen a number
of revolutions all around the world.
Here I would like to present a small piece of information
about one of the major revolutions ever that changed the world. I am talking
about the Russian Revolution. On the basis of this revolution, World’s history
can be divided into two parts (though there are many turning points). Russian
Revolution for the first time presented a new socio-political system. The system
existed before, but on papers only. Thanks to Karl Marx and his theory of
communism. During the First World War, Vladimir Lenin took the eminence of converting
Marx’s formulation of Communism into practical model. He led the Bolsheviks (majority
faction of Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party) to the government
replacing the Tsardom of Russia, through a series of revolutions starting from
February Revolution, to October Revolution followed by a Civil war. The series
of revolution resulted in the formation of Soviet Union. Soviet Union was first
of its kind’s state. It was an exemplary model of communism. Unfortunately, the
Marxist revolutionary wave started by Lenin and accompanied by Leon Trotsky did not last long and was limited
to the Russia only (Other similar revolutions in Germany and Hungary were
unsuccessful).
After Lenin other communist leaders like Joseph Stalin,
Nikita Khrushchev came into power in Soviet Union. Another major Communist
leader I should not forget is China’s Mao Zedong.
However, there are many interesting facts about all these
leaders.
1.
Stalin was Lenin’s ally in the Russian
Revolution and played an important role in 1921’s Red Army Invasion of Georgia.
It was since then he started introducing his own ideas into the revolution and going against his own
leader, Lenin. Nevertheless, Lenin appointed Stalin as General Secretary of
Communist Party of the Soviet Union next year. Later on, their relationship deteriorated
and both criticized each other’s policies.
2.
Stalin ruled the Soviet Union until his death in
1953, during which, he earned the image of being very cruel (Stalinism or click here is the
word used for his cult of personality). Soon after his death, Nikita Khrushchev
replaced him as the Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. As soon
as he got the power, he started an act famously known as de-Stalinization. He is
considered for the partial de-Stalinization of the Soviet Union. During his
power reign, he also supported Mao Zedong to bring Revolution in China. Mao
Zedong was the leader of China’s Revolution and architect of People’s Republic
of China. He is also counted among the most influencing politicians (rather
personalities) of the world of all time.
3.
With Nikita’s help, Mao engineered the People’s Republic
of China, and laid the foundation stone of China’s economic development. Between
1954 to 1959, Nikita transported about 7% of Soviet’s national income to China,
which is considered as the greatest transfer of technology in the history of
world. However, things never remained same, differences arose and that turned
Mao to go against the Khrushchev. Their relation was spoiled to the extent that
Soviets destroyed an atomic bomb with papers instead of providing it to China against
their plan.
4.
Nikita Khrushchev Controlled the Soviet Union
until 1964, before his own party members kicked him out of the power. Leonid Brezhnev replaced Khrushchev after a long planning with the party workers. About
Zedong Mao, though he is viewed as a great intellectual, poet, philosopher and
visionary, he remains a controversial figure until now.
5.
Today only China, Cuba, Laos, Vietnam and North
Korea are the communist countries. And all of us know how much do we appreciate
their policies.
6.
Here is the definition of today’s communist state: A state with a form of government characterized
by single-party rule or dominant-party rule of communist party and a
professed allegiance to a communist ideology as the guiding principle of the
state.
I noticed a common thing in all the communist
leaders mentioned here, which is their family background. I would suggest all the readers to
go through the links. Except Marx (only a theoretician), who is known to hail
from an enlightened background, everyone is from a poor background.
I am not saying that the poor can’t rule, or they are not able
to handle the state. But, the reason of them to emerge as ruler should not be the
‘Power’; hunger for the ‘Power’. All of them had the urge to rule and transform
the current situation according to their own ideologies (which was backed by an
intellectual known as Karl Marx). As summarized by the Marx himself in the first
chapter of “The Communist Manifesto” as “The history of all hitherto (so far)
existing society is the history of class struggles”. As capitalism replaced
feudalism, socialism would in turn replace capitalism. And XYZ system would
replace socialism. And the vicious cycle will never end.
The cycle is never going to end, because the root cause of
all the revolutions is same. And the reason is non-acceptance of the current
system. When this non-acceptance turns into revolution, society changes, nobody
knows for how long.
This will go on, until the seed is the same. We cannot
evolve from a seed of non-acceptance. We cannot evolve from the seed of hatred. We can’t evolve from a seed of ‘hunger for power’.
We cannot develop within from a seed that itself has come from the fruits of
evil. An evil will always give rise to another evil. If we wish to uproot the evil, we need just need to discard the seed of evil and work on the seed that brings the good.
Why not use the seed of ‘Love’.Love brings no evil. Anything coming out of love
will be lovable. So why not love each other and spread the seeds of ‘Love’ all
around. Want to bring a revolution? Bring the revolution of 'LOVE'.
Today on the Valentine’s Day, I appeal everyone to sow
the seeds of ‘LOVE’.
