Is communism a dead ideology? No, don't write it off.

Though the world over has written off communism as a dead ideology, I still believe it is a potent force capable of changing the world for the better. Though we are now living in a word of profits (I mean the dominating era of capitalism) I haven’t discarded communism as a great ideology. Many might feel capitalism is the right ideology for growth, but I think it leads only to exclusive growth or skewed growth. It means leaving out a large section of the people outside the sphere of benefits of economic growth.

Communism, when executed in a few countries like Soviet Union or China, have had some serious flops. We can call it execution lapses. One needs to understand when communism was put into practice, they had no past reference to fall upon. It was a novel concept , and the people who executed as administrative policies could not have foreseen how such a state would bring about an egalitarian society in its own merit. What hindered the successful execution of this great ideology. It was nothing other than the human self or human mindset.

A human being has the inborn quality to possess something for his own benefit and only for his benefit. Charity is an exception, not a rule. As famous thinker Abraham Maslov has said, human wants are set against an upward spiral. First, he wants to meets his basic needs. Then, he goes for his spiritual needs, and finally he wants to salvation. In this process, there is no place for others. A human being becomes completely self-centred. Where is place for an ideology that sees equality of all human beings? Though the concept of equality is theoretically possible, it has failed as a practical one when executed just because the human beings are self-centred.

To overcome this hazard, the authorities had to use force to execute the ideology against the dominant will of human beings against an egalitarian society. As anyone assumes, one cannot hold people’s will against their mindset for long. So, the execution of communism failed in many countries. One need s to remember that it is not the concept of communism that failed, but it is the methodology of execution.

Is communism a dead ideology? Or, is it potent force that can ameliorate people’s suffering by establishing an egalitarian society. I strongly believe that communism will survive as long as all kinds of inequalities exist in the world.