Bourgeoisie Revolution: An attempt to fathom ticket-scam from historical perspective

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The ‘Bourgeoisie’ the term which defined the French revolution and created a system that is followed by most of the democracies. Since, I have started with a fairly unknown term to laymen, so let’s try to understand the term and its implication that occurred in the past and is still happening as I write, and u read this article.

The term ‘Bourgeoisie’ refer to people with a certain cultural and financial capital belonging to the middle or upper middle class, is the simplest description of ‘Bourgeoisie’. Let’s drive in a little deeper to understand what really were the motives of this newly emerged class.

            From the time of the discovery of America and the discovery of the sea route to India (end of 15^th century) there began a shift of power in Europe from Italy and Germany to the countries on the Atlantic Ocean; England, Holland and to a lesser extend to France. In these countries an ever-stronger commercialism developed. The cities grew and a purely capitalist industry began to develop. And with this economic ascendency these countries began to assume cultural and intellectual leadership.  

            However, this growing capitalism could not in the long run find room in the old political form of medieval feudal society (feudalism was the system in European medieval societies of the 10^th to 13^th centuries CE whereby a social hierarchy was established based on local administrative control and the distribution of land into units called fiefs). The bourgeois becoming conscious of their social importance was not longer satisfied with their humble position. They had to demand a voice in commercial politics, taxation and foreign policy. They had to oppose upper-class privilege and impose political forms within which theirs social and economic interest could be uninterruptedly pursued. As the new class grew stronger it strove for a new form where whatever the trappings, the centre of gravity would lie in a representative assembly where the wealthy bourgeoisie would have the upper hand.

Now we know that the inception of the representative form of governance is never meant to emancipate the poor and downtrodden, it was started to make sure that policies, thinking and aims of the bourgeoisie stay on the negotiation table and in the end pursued.

Coming to India, as the European made their advent in the subcontinent the wealthy people get a chance of educating their children in the science and commerce which was missing from India that time as there was a huge null in the research and development owing to numerous wars and drain of wealth to finance those wars. Also, there were very few patrons of science and commerce that time. This newly educated wealthy class employed in the East India Company office as clerks were bullied by their officers about the social status of women, as women was the most susceptible target of the British officers to show their superiority in terms of thinking and civilisation. Thus, many of these Indian bourgeoisie, started to reform the Indian society and we saw those people in form of Raja Rammohan Roy, Dada Bhai Naoroji, Rabindranath Tagore, etc. but, this all was done without of little support of the British Indian Government. Descendants of this class in future demanded their aims to be pursued. And this was the reason that initially the freedom struggle was not to gain independence from the foreign rule but to get dominion status, post 1935 this class become interested in capturing the power which British government will leave. Thus, Indian bourgeoisie, captured the power of a vast resources of vast land like India. And now their only aim is to module the governance so that at any cost either they or their fellow bourgeoisie stay in power and the aim of both the group of set of people will be fulfilled.

            They use the state as an instrument to achieve their aim, the habitats of the state were considered as bits and parts of the great machine called ‘state’. The bourgeoisie ideology is so strong that even largest communist revolution or the revolution of the proletariat, could not over throw them instead the person who took to the position of the ruler of that communist state covertly became a bourgeoisie. This is the reason that most of the communist states or the workers heaven were actually a hell for workers.

            Taking all this in context the recent COVID19 pandemic which took the world by surprise the most unguarded group are the workers in general and migrant workers in particular. This was the case in Wuhan where most of the family’s breadwinner is a man who go to Beijing and work. Similar is the case in India where large number of migrant workers from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan and Odisha go to more developed southern states and worker from Kerala, Andhra, Tamil Nadu go to gulf and work on construction sites. This pandemic can be less tiring to these sections of Indian workers but due to the century old ideology of the Indian bourgeoisie they are reeling under intense stress. This stress was increased when government even deny to pay the ticket of these worker from their work destination to their native and political conflict was created by union and state government on the cost sharing of the ticket fare. This is very sad that even after getting good response on request to donate money in PM relief fund the same money is not spent on the people who need it the most, this is a clear cut textbook example of how management use to happen in the time of the independence, it better if we all call is a  ticket-scam.

            This is not only a move which exposed that all the political parties are made-up of same blood and flesh and strive for identical aims. That aim is to keep the people aloof and rule under the veil of nationalism, socialism, pro-poor, pro-farmer and many more ideologies. There was chance in the midst of the freedom struggle to change the course of the governance but that was lost when the freedom struggle of India was equated to the freedom movement of a single party aka INC (Indian National Congress). But a more unfortunate thing that occurred is that later political parties (BJP, BSP, SP, AIADMK, DMK, TDP, etc) who claim to be pro-poor in letter and spirit failed to make any dent on the conventional way of managing the state of affairs in any democracy.

            This is my attempt to make the readers understand that all the political parties work for a unified aim and to beat them we citizen should seek a unified demand who have a capability to subdue the aim that these Indian bourgeoisie parties follow.