Humanity Boiling in the Communist Cauldron

 

The more I read the facts and fiction of communist dictatorial regimes, the times when humanity faces a roadblock, the more I forget my own collective as well as personal pain here in India. I feel blessed to be born beyond the communist shadow. If God has been merciful enough not to cast you into a communist land in either this or previous births, then you have no right to ask for more. It’s already the best blessings from the Lord. It's a divine gift not to be born under the communist system. The biggest pains you feel in a non-communist regime appear like luxurious sprouts in comparison to the horrendous systemic tortures perpetrated on the masses under communist regimes.

So to me, as part of democracy, the smallest of gains look like the biggest boon. Not that democracy is perfect. It has its own sweet-sour set of nuisances. But these are lesser symptoms of non-fatal diseases like cough, cold, running nose, sneezing etc., etc. Communist dictatorship on the other hand is simply a terminator like incurable cancer. 

Mao Zedong: “Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer that we use to crush the enemy.”  

Unfortunately, the enemy is always at hand. It is most of the time one’s next door neighbor. There is so much hate and distrust. There is an ever-persistent enemy of the state. One line purged, you redefine the meaning of state enemy, and purge the second line. It continues like this, waves of purging arrive like Tsunami. No wonder Mao Zedong and Stalin slaughtered millions of their own countrymen. These regimes stand as the epitomes of hate culture. And when love rarely matters in an epoch, it stands as the darkest phase.

The communist ideology is an all-pervading fire that doesn't spare either good or bad. Intended to burn the evil, it stretches the definition of evil too far and turns fiery evil itself. It's a huge stone hurtling down the slope, squashing leaves, saplings, petals, thorns and all. A fire needs fodder to burn. The communist ideology needs hordes of victims to survive. There is an endless chain of imagined enemies and hence successive waves of purges.

It's human industrialization wherein people are turned into machines and cogs in the production line. Looking at the ways and means of the emerging international bully, I’m afraid, at the end of it, the human civilization, despite its efforts at capitalist systems, will perish as a mechanical society controlled by the communist system. Nonetheless, such cataclysmic end should not make me skip my enjoyment of life in a democratic system.

Very often I wondered how the communist dictators built cult status with millions of blind followers. Now I realize it's a simple technique. First they rob people of their faith, make them forget the intrinsic goodness in them, introduce them to mindless violence and blood-bathing thus turning them utterly atheist. However, we are genetically inclined to have faith. In the vacuum they plant their personality. Thus starts the cult of a dictator. State propaganda is used for the dictator's deification. And we have crazy, blinded masses, happy over having their God nearby. It’s sadistic deification where common people love their own wounds and injuries.

However, the communist edifice, which gets soaring high in the sky, outgrows its sustainability like cancerous propagation of cells. Too much of laws, rules, regulations and legalized forced discipline create a facade that rises too perfectly, but soullessly, to soar too high to sustain its elevation. It then crumbles because mechanical perfection rarely sustains. You need to have a humanistic soul to help any human endeavor sustain the onslaught of time. That's why communist societies crumble like a castle of cards. They simply crash after a time like it did suddenly in Russia.

China is rabble rousing boundary issues with all neighbors to retain its CPC dictatorship. Keep them believing that there are foes outside, who have committed crimes against the Motherland, and they will forget about their own irritation at the ruling party’s manipulation of their lives. However, there is a possibility that it will snap like the former USSR. The Soviet Russia went boom to bust from 1917 to 1991, 74 years of experiment, which was inevitably bound to fail. Let’s see how far China can manage the experiment that started in 1949. It has been 70 years. Even they may not have as much time as they think. Things may just crumble up, almost magically.

To survive, a society has to have its pitfalls and imperfections. The facade doesn't go too high. It sustains. There are plus and minus that cancel out each other, like in a democratic system. Oh, the glorious imperfections of democracy! That's why it thrives.

The well managed, rigid facade in China may disintegrate. It may suddenly collapse. Well, unless they voluntarily introduce some imperfections themselves, some traits of democracy, to make it pliable, some allowance of mischief, some humor, some criticism to bring down the upper stories of the facade that has gone too high. It won't fall then.

The communist model carries the seeds of its own destruction. Right now Chinese leadership has to have more and more enemies, real and imagined, to keep the people hooked onto the idea that has failed everywhere else in the world. Let’s see where such mass distrust of the humanity outside the boundaries of the latest superpower takes us.