Failed States

To all people, who lived during the period of cold war, know the two great ideology for the life-time. One is lassiez-faire and another communism. While America created a new department to take down the propagation of communism in U.S.A, U.S.S.R aggressively propagated the ideology. The contention among the two great world powers is not the influence but the ideology that they believe in.

With U.S.S.R disintegration, propagators of capitalist rejoiced that the ideology in which they believed survived the odd times. The follow up  events showed that free markets are the only way to keep a sustainable society.  That was evident from the reforms carried out by many closed economy countries. But the communist state failed to note that closed economy is not the way achieve economic success. Neither authors or commentators of communist ideology favored closed economy to meet it ends while pursuing communism. 

The states which experimented with communism failed to take cue of the idea behind it. That was the real cause for the failure. Instead of working class owing the forces of production, state decided to own it on behalf of working class. The individual capitalism which was popular in the capitalist countries were transformed in to state capitalism. This is the root cause for the failure. The real communist idea was to make working class have control over the force of production. But in communist state, state took the place of the individual capitalist. So, the result was worse than expected. 

The result was that the states which pursued communism were seen as state which strike terror in the heart of citizens. An insecure sense in the society. The forfeiture of assets owned by individuals was the worst part. In no part of the communism, it was told to forfeit the rich. The anger against the capitalist class helped to built those communist state. That was one among the many mistakes causing downfall of these states. Communism is not about usurpation of capitalists.

The Communism is not a mere failed ideology. It still has potential of its own. Still workers can own force of production. The great example is cooperatives where workers or craftsmen who are in need of capital can pool their resources to create a great production force. The profit are shared among the members. It is not mandatory to establish them only in the communist state. Any society can develop cooperatives. When workers or group of individuals feel they can't meet their ends with the present way, they can peacefully form such organisation among themselves. This don't need any drastic change or weapons to change their lives or others. Only the will and good organisation skills were needed. This is the real communism and not changing into a state capitalism.

Even in strict capitalist states, communism is followed in disguise. One great pick would be partnerships. Where people of common interest work together to achieve their goals. Their might rise a question, how it benefit the working class! Communism is not only about working class, it about collective work whoever it may be. In strict capitalism individuality is the norm while collectivism is for communism.  The target of communism turned to be working class as these people had no control over the forces of production. Even in partnership, each individuals don't have means to have control over the forces of production. Hence, they decide to own collectively the production force. Either way, it appears same but for the names involved.  

Evolution of Law of the Land

The history of any nation would always start with the stone age where people, yet to be socialized lived. The evolved to be nomads seeking a livelihood from place to place. Further, they domesticated animals and reared them for food. Later, the nomads started settling at various places, adjacent to rivers, in the world forming a group of settlers. 

Globalization of Market

The concept of Globe under single roof seems to be a great idea. The free flow of goods and service between the countries is a blessing in disguise. Such free flow market let good idea to transcend boundaries. It promoted the global trade and helped in reviving weak economies. Whenever a bail out package is granted for a bankrupt country, the bankrupt countries were made to make an undertaking to open up its market for the world.

Modernization and Traditional Stigma

In 1991, India opened its gate to economic reforms. The ideal behind the Privatization, Liberalization and Globalization was that it will bring the best and modern practice into the Indian Market. The free-market economy will promote investment from private players. Through investment from foreign countries not only the investment to tap resource but also the best practices prevailing in the investor country will make its way into the Indian Market.

Contemporary Convictions

Good day people. We would have heard about convictions of offenders involved in crime through our mass-medias. The convicts are proved guilty based upon a code which is law of the land. While the code is of substantive nature which provides various provision for punishments against a specified act that is declared as wrong in that society.

While it may be seen as naive to question the code upon which judiciary functions, but soon it may emerge contingent to question the code as change in the society might make the present code sterile and dysfunctional. The code is the primary source of remedy against a wrong committed by the convict. Hence, the question is what constitute a wrong in a society? All right, the time has arrived to correct the deficiency in the contemporary justice system. All we do is just punish the person who has committed the wrong. Does it have end in itself? A deep thought answer is no! Just punishing or terminating the offenders out of the society is just a temporary solution. To sustain a society, punishments are not alone sufficient pillar to build a community.

The other view of the justice must be addressed at this juncture. The cause of such an act deemed to be wrong to be found out. What may appear to be wrong to us might appear correct from perspective of the others. The ideology on which the society is built provide the supportive clause for the act declared to be wrong. Precisely , the person who acted against the ideology of the society is deemed to be wrongdoer. Indeed, for a person who is deviant from the social norms of the community should be treated with great care. Rather than punishments, a correctional facility is the way to bring such person back into the fold of the ideology of the community. But the present day Judicial system in most nation fail to address the need of correction. They act only as an institution of fear and keep the delinquent undercover.

The contemporary system promoted the value that unless you get caught nothing done is wrong. The socialization which evolved for many centuries failed to address bringing back the delinquent person who is a wrongdoer for the community in which he lives, in line with the ideals of the community. On the other hand, it developed a stigma around the delinquents which further antagonize them.

In order to provide stable community, a balance must be struck between punishments and corrections of delinquents. It said easier than getting it done. It is slow and steady process and must be build with great care.