Changing tides

 

Capitalism was one of the hands—that too indirectly—which pulled the strings of the puppet of democracy. Of late, the capitalists have begun to pull the strings—directly. Individual powerful capitalists now are a parallel force in the world’s largest and strongest democracies. Democracy is now more or less capitalist democracy. Well, when the entire world becomes a bazaar, and tariffs and profiteering become the major geostrategic forces, the world will have major upheavals. Other democracies will be stretched thin in the wake of this reshaping of the two major democracies: India and the USA.

Against this background, communist capitalism will be viewed in new light. It might be viewed as far more normal than it has been so far by the world outside the iron curtain. It will no longer be an anathema merely on ideological grounds. Democracies will possibly lose the high moral platform from where they have been taking potshots at communist China. There will be more practical judgment of China and its system of governance. Basically, the greed for power, money and authority carries the same muscles, bones and tissues under the varying skins of political ideologies and systems.

Now the sun of blind profiteering will tan all types of skins in the same color.

We get bored with what we have possessed for a long time. So don’t get too surprised if the equations get reversed in future: democracies taking to communism and communists trying democracy for a change.