Last week in my office
(IT/SW Industry) near the coffee machine, I was cleaning my cup of tea to get
some tea. A person come and see me washing the cup, he doubtfully ask me
whether I am looking at the pantry work on the floor. I simply answered,
"No." Then I took my tea and go out of the room. After some time that
person come to me and said, "Sorry!!" I was surprised to hear it. Why
did he say sorry? Then I thought that if he asked this type of doubtful and "wrong"
question to a pantry person, like "Is he is an engineer." And the pantry
person had answered no; then, did this person say sorry to that pantry worker? Never!!
At this movement I cannot stop myself to analyze the deep reason behind this type
of partial and anti-democratic behavior.
What he does at that
movement was the reflection of capitalist habits which differentiate the
individuals who work as engineer and who work as pantry boy or do any other
physical work. It is the creation of the difference between mental and physical
work. It happens when you don't have the knowledge of the importance of your as
well others' work for society, and only focused on earning profit and wealth or
livelihood. These type of values are also true, and the same thing also happens, when a middle class individual interacts with the individual of higher class. It is actually, and really, the class character and class interest of the people living and growing in a capitalist society. This character of the capitalist culture is the open example, which
represses, oppresses and crushes the individuality of a person and creates
differences between them and finally kills the democracy of the society. Still
many people, can are present in the society, who are unaware of capitalist habits
and values, they do arguments that socialism kills the individuality of the persons.
I would like to ask that if they try to observe (it is very important!!)
one or two incidents, which are daily happening around them, then there will
not remain any word to say about individuality in the capitalism.
While this type of
culture, this type of behaviors, and this type of values will exist in the
society how someone can expect that there will not be oppression, there will
not be exploitation and there will not be corruption?? And this culture cannot
be controlled by any law. Middle class of the society, with this type of behavior
are the base for all these anti-democratic culture of the capitalist society.
These anti-human and
anti-democratic values are reflected in every middle class individual, whatever
level of qualification (I don't say education!!) he have. These cheap capitalist
values develop in a natural way in the control of capitalist superstructure, in
every individual who don't involved in the physical work.
These social values of
the present capitalist society cannot be accepted by any conscious person!!
