Saturday, 26 November 2011

INSGHT INTO COMMUNIST THEORY

1.The Hegelian Dialectical method is suitable only for clash of ideas resulting in a better ideas. This is applied by Marx to material/ human conflicts. When the poor and the rich have a conflict, it will result in the destruction of one group. The poor will have the numbers and the rich will have the clout of weapons and expertise. The end of one conflict will create large destruction to both,but not in any progress.
2.The labour theory of value is idealistic. It was not workable even during Marx's period of life. The value of a product is dependent on too many factors and raw material and labour are just only two of them. Capital,infra-structure,machinery,method, technological expertise and management are some of the equally important factors.
3.The Primitive Communism visualized by Marx was a myth. Primitives, like animals, had their areas marked and violations resulted in fights. Their lives were nasty and brutish. They lived in a dog eat dog world. There was struggle for food ,possessions and family.
4.During Marx's times there was no democracy with universal franchise. Hence he thought of a "blood revolution". In a democratic set up the Government can bring in policy decisions to implement welfare measures and curtail concentration of wealth in the hand of a few elite rich.Of course it often does not happen, because of corruption and conspiracy between the rich and the politically powerful.
5. The dictatorship of the proletariate or the Communist Party through proxy is already a failed concept. In fact all dictatorships are anathema to the modern human psyche.
6. What is the way out for the Communist Parties? We will have it in another blog.