Socialism of the Future / Future of Socialism

Geetha said that in the era of globalisation, the organised sector was getting completely finished in the sense that the factories would only employ contract labour in the future. Neither the organised sector nor the unorganised sector was able to take on the onslaught of globalisation. “On the ground level the reality is that we are being finished as a class, the unorganised sector is facing, invisible retrenchments,” she lamented.

She said in the present system the entire political class was corrupt and it was corruption which was letting the MNCs open their shops in the country. “In this situation, we know that unless the workers, peasants, the dalits and the women rise, there is no future in this country and in order to save the country and in order to save the people, it is only the ordinary people who have to rise” Geetha pleaded.

She observed that the political class has betrayed the people, just like the Indian Maharajas were betrayed when the East India Company came to India. “We have to realise that we have had a very long history of oppression of the poor and the women through the caste system. We have to overcome that. In Marxist terms, you can say that it is the domination of mental labour over physical labour but ultimately, it is oppression in terms of caste and gender. This was not solved even after the attainment of freedom.

“Till date, discrimination and exploitation of the poor labourers, the dalits and the women take place. They are subject to various kinds of atrocities. I’m talking of the working class women. And it is among these working class, the backwards and the dalits that there is a conflict going on. So we have to see how a true united front of the working class and the peasantry, of the dalits and the women can be built, and it is only under the leadership of these dalits and the tribal people that any revolution is going to take place. Only then are we going to have socialism in real terms. In terms of social justice, in terms of restructuring the economy, where everyone is ensured a protection to their right to life and has access to the basic necessity of a livelihood,” she expressed, adding that without democracy we could not have socialism. So the whole question of democracy from below was crucial. Social revolution would not take place without an uprising for social equality and economic equality. There has to be a recognition of women’s contribution in all processes and it was very important that justice to women, justice to dalits and justice to backward classes was ensured. Also, without a socialist economy, this was absolutely impossible to have socialism in practice.

“There has to be a unity of the working class and the country. This alone can resolve the social question and the cultural question. It is very important that this united front evolves in the course of the next five to ten years in this country. Only then can we hope for a bright future,” Geetha noted with hope.

For Hindi click here

Copyleft. Any part of the content on this site can be used, reproduced, or distributed freely by anyone, anywhere and by any means. Acknowledgement is appreciated.

Designed and maintained by CAPITAL Creations, New Delhi. Phone 91-11-26194291