The Pesent System

Gian Singh

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Philosophy of Robbery
Well said by one close observer: Fukuyama or no
Fukuyama, history moves on. There is no end of history
in sense Yoshihiro Francis Fukuyama on the day was in a
hurry to predict with a claim to assure justice, equity
and tranquillity by liberal democracy of American vintage
at the collapse of Soviet camp and its system of
governance. He was unduly charmed of its advantage
over the socialist thought.
History has its own dynamics working with forces that
drives it, despite wishes of men like him. Philosophy
of life in a deeply fractured world cannot be uni-polar
either; Francis Fukuyama was too optimistic about future
of his benefactors and tried to mislead the world in
favour of capitalist philosophy of robbery and strife
which marvels with a drive to thrive at the cost of
others less drunk with power and pelf. Later, he himself
tried to wriggle out of ideological soup he was in on
matters of hopes and aspirations. The reality of life
was too harsh to ignore anymore; it works differently.
So much for soothsayers of false gods.
Fukuyama was not alone indulging in wild goose fantasies
but with a definite purpose at hand, many others like
him are in circuit. They theorise myths, half truths or
manufacture some to create ideological confusion so
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that efforts to fathom stark realities go thwarted about

barbarity of present capital centred system based on
theory of personal profit as the driving force for
development, notwithstanding the fact that such a
course necessarily releases a violence inducing virus in
society through cut-throat completion and perpetual
strife in its trail. Fukuyama apparently evaded a stark
reality that he and his ilk sell wisdom and thrive in the
cause that is hardly honourable. See a piece:
At the modern stage, the ability to build up
material wealth at an accelerated rate on the basis
of front-ranking science and high-level techniques and technology, and to distribute it
fairly, and through joint efforts to restore and
protect the resources necessary for mankinds
survival acquires decisive importance.
On its face, prescription is exceptional, fair and neutral
to be palatable for all. If looked a bit carefully, the
formulation is not as innocent as it appears; the syntax
used is purposive and thrust apparent. While it is
sufficiently emphatic on employing new technologies
that rests on labour displacement concept to accelerate
creation of wealth speedier, the way it pleads very
innocently and softly to continue old clich in the
distribution of fruits of labour is remarkable. Workmen,
as creators of wealth, were sanctioned fair wage over
sixty six years back by new rulers of free India, but
under an inbuilt myth of a right of owners of capital to
expropriate surplus only to accelerate accumulation of
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capital in their hands, a deliberate creation to justify

a definite capitalist norm for exploitation.
By the way, how capital reached the hands of these
people in the first instance? The claim for exclusive
right on surplus value created by others rests on the
premise that capital legitimately belongs to them?
Since investment ready capital is not a result of any
honest labour put by them in production, naturally, it
remains possible only through expropriation of surplus
out of production done by their labour employed
through a right falsely backed by state or accumulated
through plain theft, robbery and thuggery.
Primary accumulation and savings have lost relevance
in general under sway of corporate capital that rules
the roost today; it is a fairy tale now. Why it was felt
necessary to make capital primary requirement for
growth and social production? Bank money is source
of investment. This public money and interest on it, is
made a valid charge for calculating cost which consumers pay. What Ambani or Tata gets paid at
fabulous rates for their skills on managerial task,
including fudging of accounts, or mastery in handling
bureaucrats and political bosses as personal
remuneration? Expenditure on such pastime items
as bribes for getting preferential treatment or bypassing rules and regulation are considered valid
charge that is accounted expenditure. Dividends on
shareholders money is likewise charged similarly.
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ment to spur industrialisation spree and commercial

enterprises. How, say Ambani or Tata came in picture
for instance, except through the grace of state and
allowed the right of expropriating surplus
production as masters of such expropriated or interest
bearing finance capital that stands charged from
consumers? Nonetheless, this is made legal as a right at
the cost of those who create wealth by their hard labour.
The system is designed in a way that greater the
production, heavier is the expropriation, which leads
to greater polarisation of society into rich and deprived,
giving inequality to rise daily and hourly. These
gentlemen, as wiseacres, so serve their masters to sell
such a philosophy of robbery but softly and politely by
pushing such trash as above quote illustrates!
At least workmen do know by experience of last seventy
years what Indian government has been doing in
matters of fixing differential wage structure including
fair wage formula to keep them at starvation/beggars level while at the same time giving push to
some others like Ambani to rise from rags to uncouth
riches by sheer manipulation of legality and legitimacy.
The Indian story about how governments made rich
class richer using administrative or legal methods makes
a fascinating reading, including one for cheating working
population, most shrewdly the peasantry, on question
of entitlement (details a bit later). Factually, it is robber himself/
herself who decides liability of his/her action on this
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ordinary except giving voice to what is in the interest

of capitalist class. What they said, as above, is the
philosophy of present system in vogue a robbers
guide to action. Such gems of wisdom do nothing
except disorientate efforts of people to know
stark realities. In fact, such people are warriors of a
sharp war of intellect on behalf of corporate capital.
Providing an intellectual cover to evil is doing no good
to society; it helps prolonging period of its agony. Bereft
of such intellectual cover, natural delivery of capitalcentred, market driven profit-seeking and strife
inducing system in pangs of deprivation and inequality
will necessarily induce also a consciousness to resist
injustice by its victims. Through such intellectual
intervention from this tribe of intellectuals the system
seeks stamina to prolong its octopus like grip on society.
Strife here is perennial while collaboration is temporary, timely and subject to terms of communality in
interest. In natural delivery, it produces perpetual
inequality, unemployment/under-employment,
hunger, disease, misery for working population and
polarisation in social formations.
Through state intervention, however, the characteristic output gets boost. This induced delivery through
surgical intervention or legal/administrative measures
this volatile system brings death of family farming and
disintegration of family quickly on one hand and
super riches for the masters of capital and the state.
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In a natural course of development other than capitalist

set up, it is fulfilment of human needs i.e. the sustenance
that provides fillip to move ahead constantly in harmony
with nature providing a base for peace, cooperation
and mutual trust. Human labour is centre of focus and
gains necessary skill to overcome hurdles, while
interaction, in course of activity with fellow citizens,
creates knowledge. Since the law of motion generates
continuously rising ambit of needs, society ever moves
from lower to higher stage of development. Luxury of
today turns into need next day, which guarantees
constant motivation for growth to newer heights.
The impetus, driving force for production under natural
mode is communality of interest for fulfilling needs that
go on increasing steadily. The trajectory of growth is
steadily upward as in a mathematical progression. The
rhythm of this growth requires labour input of the family
in common soliciting cooperation of other neighbouring
families for social good that includes fulfilment of
individual needs. It is living and sharing in common for
sustenance through centuries that has gone decisive in
shaping the nature of man/woman as defined one.s
characteristics. These defining features of growth under
family farming by its nature could not and did not give
reason to be individualist or selfish. So, they did not.
With advent of capital centred industrial-commercial
mode, in contrast to natural mode, the focus shifted to
individual as its basic labour unit while gaining more
capital as driving force of enterprise that went to
reshape characteristic feature of labour as a freely
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available individual. Individuality and self was made

ones characteristic feature through a sustained effort.
For availability of such an individual to fit in a new
culture in consonance was given a shape. Family and its
community became a hurdle and were subjected to
blows after blows to vacate space. Woman was tutored
to be as a free individual with freedom of choice and
master of her sexuality, perfect atmosphere for free
availability of both male and female in open market of
labour and entertainment. It is short story where female
and male sexuality are made objects of entertainment
through a sustained ideological warfare. This is the
philosophy of corporate capital at its current stage
of development- a long way indeed from its earlier
commitment to democratic values of its younger age.
The motive behind investments for capitalist enterprises is to gain profit and not generation of
employment, as is masqueraded to fool people at times.
Subdued employment and uneven development go as
outshoots. Market as a place where to collect the
profit, acts a regulator for equilibrium between demand and supply subject to manipulations by both for
extra gains. Rather, with labour displaying echnologies
the ambit of employment decreases in productive
enterprises and shifted either to the reserve army of
unemployed or to unproductive tasks in service sector for greasing easy life style of rich gentry at low
cost. This mode necessarily generates split personality of man, strife, periodic crisis, alienation, shortages,
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hunger and disease and breaks social bonds; family,

its community are unwanted categorie for disposal.
Traversing such a course for about four hundred years,
capitalism has assumed the general form of imperialism
in the era of globalisation, privatisation and liberalisation
characteristically called corporate capital. Indian
capitalism worked tirelessly to strengthen itself quickly
in given situation and took a quantum jump in 1991.
With the help of state it grew in strength and now it is
an aspirant imperialist enterprise.
Capitalist system cannot serve beneficially to both
robbers and their victims. Its wheels run like this
ruthlessly and tirelessly. With its capital-centred industrial-commercial culture of competing individual
interests makes capitalism more furious that criminally dehumanises man. Without robbery, cheating
deceit as its necessary tools It cannot move ahead.
Capitalism, as a system of production and distribution,
once promised opportunity to all with fair play in
a level field to eliminate poverty byreleasing creative
energies of man through the operation of market
forces rather than coercive methods of state.
The promise is offered as its main stay to bewitch.
In concert to the above, Capitalism, as a method of
governance, promised equality before the law and
framing policies with consent of people as its master
with regulations and regulatory mechanism in place.
The practice, however, is the real test of fidelity
that it fails to pass. In process, democracy by now has
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lost its sheen in general and real face is too dark to

adore and owrship like fools.
Regulations or regulatory mechanisms do not bind capital
for good behaviour; these are virtually meant to
deceive its victims into slumber one after the other or
enlarge number of beneficiaries in deals. When one set
is exposed or rendered to be useless another takes its
place to deceive for a while. This is the story world
over how rule of law works. Where and when the
plethora of laws has been able to control the rapacious
capital to remain human and civilised?
In India the phase of liberalism was ushered in by
denouncing and dismantling inspectors raj which was
there to enforce regulations for good behaviour,
otherwise there was no necessity for ruling circles to
frame legislations that sanctified inspectors in place to
assure good behaviour of rogues! In fact these inspectors
were there to smooth its affairs more in favour of rich
rather than the harassed labour.
Labour welfare legislations of that era are loaded heavily
in favour of employers. Industrial Disputes Act, 1947,
The Payment of Wages Act, 1948, The Minimum Wages
Act, 1948 and Trade Unions Act, 1926 are examples
for corroboration. Labour Departments have served
more employers than the labour everywhere.
With liberalisation, Privatisation, Globalisation
policies were brought in favour of capital as against
labour to develop capitalism to corporate level, State
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(polity), or Nation state as an institution now stands

graduated to be its hip adjunct without pretensions.
The capitalist mode carries with it reasons for constant stress and malfunction leading to mismatch in
production and distribution giving rise to convulsions.
It talks of equality but thrives on inequality. It is
hilarious on human rights but rules over with brutal
organs of coercion. It flaunts about its rule of law
but maintains an elaborate order of illegitimacies/
immoralities to its advantage with help of its legislatures
and courts. It is never shy to preside over scams and
pamper corrupt at its need. It promises a world of plenty
but dispenses poverty and unemployment in plenty.
Capitalism professes virtue of market forces to release
creativity and dispense justice but is never shy
to manipulate it for advantage of the rich and powerful.
It does not have capacity to keep whole population
satisfied of its wants. Majority of its citizens has to be
keptconstantly need of essentials and search for
employment for reasons of keeping its economy going.
After a phase of its development, capitalism promised
a world of plenty in industrialisation spree. The mad
race for industrialisation went unchallenged. Claim
apart, it is difficult to tell any country in world which
is industrially developed and is free from unemployment problem; with no want and misery.
To hell, then, for such a barbarous mode to depend
upon for delivery, if one does not prefer to live in
constant delusion and depression.
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