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Real face of globalization and tasks aheadGlobalization as such
has multidimensional connotations. It is a thinking and
philosophy,it is an economic process as well as it is a political
war-cry-three-in-one with itsramification far and wide.However its
most vivid manifestation is in its all-embracing economic theory
of
integrating the world in one economic system. Herein it acquires
political overtonesleading to the concept of a unipolar world in
the era of STR, end of cold war, collapseand disintegration of
USSSR as well as dismantling of the social system in the
East-Central Europe. Consequently the US has become the pivot
around which the economiesof almost all countries of the world are
revolving and their polities, too, are being greatlyinfluenced.
Suffice is to say would be the US attacks on Afganistan and Iraq in
the nameof democracy, fall out of which is yet to unravel, however,
it has unmasked every singlenation as to who stands where and for
what. This is only a burning example of howeconomic hegemony
establishes political hegemony.The philosophy of Globalisation is
materialistic monism which treats the world as anintegrated market
wherein the free flow of capital is imperative. It treats man as
a
commodity. It harps o individual instincts of acquisitiveness
and consumerism so muchso that he/she becomes the prisoner of every
growing desire and needs.In the backdrops of STR/ITR the proponents
of Globalisation envisaged the new world asa global village having
no room for exclusiveness of any single thought processeconomy and
polity, whatsoever. Its goal was said to be the noblest one, i.e.
ending
poverty and destitution everywhere on the globe. It was
projected as a penecea of allhuman ills and sufferings with immense
potential of capital growth. It envisaged and
propagated the theory of an integrated world economy and the
doors were closed as pluralism of human ethos. Everything appeared
to be hay and gay everywhere across theglobe, everyone started
running amuck to win the race with great enthusiasm to
realizehis/her dreams, hops expectations and aspirations.
Never the less the experience of over one and half decades when
the Globalization wasset into motion tells the other story as well,
i.e. other side of the coin. Even the proponents of this process
have started raising voice against the fall out of
globalization-envisaged. They now admit that the capital flow in
this process has been from the
peripheral countries to the centre, i.e., the USA and not the
other way round. Big playersin this game such as Russia, Chiana,
Japan and others have, of late, started questioningthe validity of
unipolar world. Inner-contradictions of the big brothers of this
process areon rise slowly, but steadily. On the other hand the
emergence of left of centre democraticregimes in several countries
of South/ Latin America has exposed the real face of
USadministration and is ready to act as a deterant to their
hegemony. Poor and developingnations have a lesson to learn from
these developments.
No doubt far reaching economic growth is taking place as the CMC
has been replace withthe MCM in this process leading to quantum
jump in profitability of the capital. But themanifold surplus is
being appropriated by the rich few and the vast mass of toiling
peopleconstituting the workforce of all hues have been left to the
mercy of the devil with their ever increasing poverty and
destitution. Money, Machine and Market and not the Man arethe key
words ruling the roost. US being strategically endowed with Hi-Tech
potentialshas become the master of this unipolar world, every other
nation willy-nilly falling in
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line. If this situation is allowed to continue the USA and
allies will emerge as phantomsof doom for the mankind as such and
the toiling and teeming millions in particular Hence the battle-cry
to salvage mankind from this monster of Money, Machine andMarket
intertwined together by the phantoms of doom. Ironically,
everything has beendone in the name of democracy-preserving and
spreading democracy at the behest of the
USA. But the truth of this truth is that there is a democracy to
grow for the few and to be pauperized fro the many a democracy for
a few to kill and for the remaining to be killed.And the gainer
would continue to be one appropriating the surplus created by
otherswaiting in the wings to have the fruits of unprecedented
growth in the wake of Globalisation process.This is precisely the
context wherein a developing country like India has to chart
itscourse of action. India being rich in human resources, but
relatively backward in terms of economic growth in comparison to
big players of globalization process has a long way togo and set
example for a large number of countries of the backward,
underdeveloped anddeveloping countries of the erstwhile non-aligned
movement in the spirit of her greatnational ethos. Prescriptions
for our ills and development requirements cannot be the
same as in the case of USA, which is commanding and dictating
the world economicallyand otherwise with its population one fifth
of India and the territory five times greater than hers. Any
attempt to copy the US model or the likes are bound to boomerang as
itrendering sections of workforce out of job and is bound to do so
in larger proportions infuture as well. The economic growth
envies\aged and being promised by the policies of economic
liberalizations, free market, opening ever the key sectors to
multinationalcorporations allowing FDI in key sectors, establishing
SEZs and allowing the bigcorporate giants into the retail outlet
leading to farmers protests in Singur, Nandigramand the likes in
several parts of the country. Besides, the plight of farmers
committingsuicides, numbering in lacs small cottage and village
industries down and out in the wakeof market onslaughts are the
pointers to the face that everything is not right with
theGlobalisation process and the policies being pursued there
under.What is required in India is the need to formulate and pursue
such policy framework which suits to our soil, to our vast
population of farmers, agricultural labourers, working
people of different hues from industrial workers and office
goers to now emergingknowledge professionals, small, petty and
retail traders most of whom are engaged intraditional family
business. While doing so our policy makers should derive
sustenancefrom our national heritage and Gandhian ethos. No doubt
there can be no going back toancient commune society or village
economy of the feudal society. However the man,woman and human
values must be central, intrinsic and eternal to all what we
profess and
practice. This requires a new national renaissance.However, no
political party seems to be interested in it rather all of them are
followingthe same policies in the name of globalization with slight
variations in tone and tenor.Hence it is imperative to the
intellectuals who think themselves to be on the right side of the
people and wish to involve themselves to save the mankind from the
consequent perilto come forward and work together for awakening the
vast masses on these issues. To
begin with discussions, seminars, symposia are to be organized
at different levels to closetheir ranks followed by the
experimental campaigns among the people wherever feasible.
