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Amitabh Srivastava

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New Delhi | Friday | 9 August 2024

Karl Marx must be turning in his grave to see that his followers who swore by the Das Capital are forgetting all its basic tenets.

The communist party manifesto speaks of an ideal stage in the future when the state will wither away, thereby doing away with boundaries to reach a stage where the people are not fighting for a separate nation but where people have seamless access to the available resources. An ideal future where there are no wars because there are no nations

There was a time when women were the fighters, comrade in arms ready to take up the toughest jobs in a revolution.

Remember Madame Defarge, in 'A Tale of Two Cities' by Charles Dickens, knitting names of nobles who were to be executed after the revolution, controlling the whole movement silently and observing the goings on in the bar and outside where youngsters were writing slogans on the walls.

In India too, the most effective leadership among the Leftists has been from the women whose dedication and commitment gave the movement its fillip and edge. Just a peep into the history of JNU would bring out the glory and daring of its women leadership, sometimes outperforming the men.

With such a glorious past it is heartbreaking to find the topmost leaders of China and Russia urging women to turn into child-making machines for the cause of 'nationalism'.

 

 

Article at a Glance
Karl Marx's ideals of a stateless society seem to be forgotten by his followers, who now promote nationalism and urge women to produce more children for the sake of the nation.

In Russia, President Vladimir Putin is encouraging women to have large families to replenish the population lost in the war with Ukraine. He has even suggested that women should prioritize producing babies over their careers, citing the need to preserve traditional Russian values. This move has been criticized by feminists and democratic thinkers worldwide.

Similarly, in China, Premier Xi Jinping has been urging women to leave their jobs and focus on producing children, after decades of enforcing a one-child policy. This has led to a demographic crisis, with an aging population and a dwindling workforce.

India, on the other hand, has a young and employable population, but lacks employment opportunities due to corruption and inefficiency.

The article argues that these communist regimes are contradicting their own ideals by promoting nationalism and patriarchal values. It also highlights the irony of Putin and Xi Jinping's appeals, given that the war with Ukraine and China's one-child policy have led to demographic challenges.

The article concludes that India has an advantage due to its young population, but needs to address its own employment and corruption issues to truly benefit from this demographic dividend.

 

 

 

A report in the Washington Post last week reveals how Vladimir Putin, Russia’s strongman is on a mission to encourage women to grow its population to produce more soldiers.

“Many of our grandmothers and great-grandmothers had seven or eight children, and maybe even more,” Putin declared to an audience in the State Kremlin Palace in November. “We should preserve and revive these wonderful traditions.”

Interestingly, the report adds, and I quote "Putin, who spoke by video link from his office in Sochi in southern Russia, appeared on a massive screen flanked by two images of the “Icon of the Savior, Made-Without-Hands,” suggesting godlike status as he urged Russian women to give birth to very large families".

The immediate provocation for this is the war with Ukraine, suggests the Washington Post report. Of course, the Ukraine war has become a matter of prestige for Putin and Zelenskyy its a matter of survival. And both are unlikely to go back unless a peace broker from India attempts to bring them to the negotiating table.

But the logic that Russia has been losing its men in the war and this needs to be replenished seems phoney. Even if all women give up their jobs and start producing babies from today they will have to be at least 18 to join the Army.

Does Putin expect the war with Ukraine to last that long?

The demographic challenges faced by Russia have become an issue for many other countries for decades but the method suggested by the all-powerful dictator has surpassed all norms of decency and feminists and democratic thinkers across the world are in dismay.

To give this bizarre suggestion a noble colour he is trying to turn this war into a national issue and urging women to make producing babies a patriotic mission.

To make this mission appealing, women who represent this image of family being stronger than than any other bond are being showcased on TV as the ideal Russian women as against traditional women. This is constantly reinforced on state television as women with large families are being promoted to high-level positions — such as national children’s ombudswoman Maria Lvova-Belova, who has 10 children, five of them adopted. Ironically, the same Lvova-Belova, along with Putin, was accused of war crimes by the International Criminal Court over the forced relocation of Ukrainian children.

The Kremlin called the charges not only “outrageous and unacceptable,” but also “null and void” as far as Moscow is concerned because Russia is not a signatory to the International Criminal Court.

Among the loudest supporters of Putin’s agenda are prominent Russian women like London-educated Yekaterina Mizulina, a popular role model for Russian youth, the daughter of a Russian senator and heads the Safe Internet League, a censorship organization.

They openly denounce feminism.

Asked in an interview what she thought about feminism, she answered flatly: “I don’t think about it.” Russian women, she said, think men should come first.

“Many women in Russia feel fine if they’re deputy to someone. They don’t want to be in charge of something. This is our character,” Mizulina said. European countries made a mistake, she said, when they put women “in weird positions like the minister of defence.”

The other great Communist regime in the world China is already been in deep trouble because it implemented a one-child norm for decades. This means in effect that there are more elderly people in China than youth and its earning population is constantly depleting.

Chinese Premier Xi Jinping has been making the same appeal to its women," Leave all your jobs and produce children." It first allowed them to have two children and extended it to three even adding that the child could also be out of wedlock. Of course, not many Chinese women fell into the trap.

This puts India in an advantageous position because it has the largest young employable population in the world. It is another matter that this vast reservoir of talent is deprived of its employment opportunities because of leakage of papers and cancellation of examinations.

And of course, no one knows where are the rainbows of hope known as Employment Exchange where youth would wait patiently for their turn to get a Sarkari job.

Of course, there are sections of the fringe element in India that are so insecure and not satisfied with being the most populous country in the world.

These so-called fringe elements (actually the think tank) are the persecuted majority who feel they will become a minority in 500 years or so) and have been asking Hindus to produce as many as 10 children (most of these seriously counter the increasing population of Muslims( which is a myth).

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