An account of political philosophies

World wars 1^st and 2^nd may be considered the most bestial wars ever. War crimes were committed openly, let alone amnesty for prisoners. U.S. let off steam on Hiroshima and Nagasaki with atom bombs as Japan flickered in fire. But unlike cold war, none of them augured the end of world. The dichotomously divided world was heading its way into the most heinous battle ever. As the battle between democracy and communism galore, the world was on its way to annihilate itself. The world was divided in its political and economic dogma, the nuclear war seemed ineluctable and the doomsday imminent. The nations which were supposed to be the most sophisticated ones, were surprising the mankind with their barbarianism. This is the sort of impact which terribly divided political philosophies had. The two major military blocks wanted to create a hotbed for the proliferation of their dogma and to devour the other eventually. The battle between communism and democracy, between socialism and capitalism, between altruism and reason led the countries of the world to pile on nuclear weapons and prepare for the 3^rd world war.

U.S.S.R and U.S.A were the bastions for their own respective philosophies. The gigantic U.S.S.R wanted the communism to proliferate and the smart U.S.A wanted to encompass the world with a surge of comprehensive democracy. This led to a huge covenant of western nations in the name of North Atlantic Treaty Organization. As one besmirched the other, the world was heavily divided. The Americans gallant of their freedom of speech and the Russians of their proletariats, insouciantly kept mum of the carnage which could follow their parochial acts.

The 19^th century Russia wanted to lay the foundation for centrally planned economies in the world. Highly impressed by Karl Marx, Lenin led his country into the Russian revolution and the czars had to bite the dust. He unarguably had his last laugh and then did not look back. Russia invaded and collaborated with different countries to lead itself into a gargantuan union, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. That was the surge of socialism. The land owners were stripped off their lands, and the proletariats suddenly became the most privileged of the Russian classes. The people who were running for power and pelf had to step on the altar, as the proletariats became richer. The press was robbed of their freedom. It was forced to print corrigendum on its criticism of government. In essence, the centrally planned economy turned out to be huge failure. As the country’s businesses were taxed into destitute, endemic and chronic hunger was rampant. The exchequer would earmark huge money to defense sector, does not matter if chronic hunger burgeons in the country. Ordnance was the country’s prime concern at all times. Cases would be decided in absentia, as law went into an abyss during Stalin’s regime. Lifestyle would remain essentially drab.

After the 3^rd world war, the only standing economy was United States. It embraced capitalism and democracy, and achieved a chimerical growth rate. Its businesses were having gusto; it started to earmark huge money to the agricultural sector. They had the job cut out to ameliorate the situation of the country comprehensively. The policy of affirmative action was embraced to uplift the downtrodden blacks. As the country moved, people embraced a flamboyant lifestyle, which rendered its economy mostly consumer based, providing enough leverage to its businesses. But, it gave rise to huge greed in people, which manifested as the global economic crisis as the chronicle of events unfolded.

The dogmas of respective nations would determine the lives of its people, as the state would educate its people with its dogmas to prolong the rule, plutocracy for America and oligarchy for Russia. No one would commit the blasphemy of besmirching a proletariat in Russia and the businessmen controlled the issues in U.S. And as the chronicle of events unfolded, a new major country embraced socialism. China, under Mao, turned out to be another secluded nation. In the pursuit of rule, the ruler would condone the barbaric acts. In fact under Mao, china remained essentially a belligerent nation, which was perpetually apprehensive of an imminent invasion by United States or Soviet Union. China embraced communism in its pristine form initially. Unlike china, India had to look at a plethora of issues while taking a decision of its philosophy, when it was set free after the British havoc, which lasted for a several centuries. An uneasy limbo forced India into avoiding capitalism and still be democratic, thus a democratic socialist country, which became India’s political philosophy. Democratic socialism was essentially a conflation of communism and democracy. The system of democratic socialism then led to huge amounts of populism among the politicians and myriad cases of grafting on the administrative level. The country commuted, as the economy plummeted eventually because of a mainly lackadaisical workforce, which, concerned for odds and ends, never looked to reform the system.

By the latter half of 19^th century the job of reform started in socialist economies, and mixed economies were born. The countries with hapless performance in the economic scenario finally signed the affidavit of ameliorating it. Bestiality was replaced with empathy as countries moved forward. In 1967 Deng Xiaoping for China, in 1991 Manmohan Singh for India and for Russia Mikhail Gorbachev started the process of reform, paying homage to America’s capitalism. The education system in China, Russia and India which was producing hacks needed to be reformed and was reformed to certain extent. Leningrad ceased to exist on the map of the world and Russians adjusted to the capitalistic system like a duck to water, as Democracy encompassed the world map. Thus, the most tolerant of the political philosophies, the harbinger of liberalization of world politics, democracy, reigned.