FARMERS SUICIDE -MARXIST PERSPECTIVE !
Farmer cum creative artist Gajendra Singh ,even as he hanged on to a tree before hanging himself down to die,was persistently trying to maintain a continuing dialogue for 74 minutes with over 5000 people standing and watching him on the ground. Did any body pay attention to what he said ?There is no record. Why ?Growing sense of human alienation in society where suicides and deaths are no more than numbers. A man is just a mathematical number. So was Gajendra Singh and over a million of farmers whose death is recorded by the National Crimes Records Bureau.
The main culprit is the system of capitalism,its avaricious tendency for money accumulation and fetishism for commodities based on over- exploitation of land and other natural resources which pits human beings [farmers] against soil/land/water. This antagonism also forms the basis of alienation of human beings [farmers] from each other,which is most dangerous for survival ,subsistence and existence. Premature,untimely and contingent death of farmers is but a corollary of socially alienated existence of farmers striving and struggling daily as Robinson Crusoe on secluded islands amidst turbulent capitalist conditions. Farmers as "natural beings"subsist as free owners of land but are ruthlessly dependent on exogenous non natural forces imposed from outside like institutional credit,financing,markets, technologies,resources etc which they find most difficult to cope with.
Framers are now on a look-out for genuine freedom. Having lost natural values ,natural being status and natural meaning of existence ,they seek success which comes by suicide. So having lost values,meaning and oneness with natural conditions of existence,they desperately strive to succeed in achieving their "purpose"of existence which they ultimately find in suicide.
The million dollar question arises- what prompted Gajendra Singh to hang himself in day light and in full public view ?The clue lies in human alienation and social estrangement.Who is culprit ? Capitalism, of course,which promoted concrete individualism .
Farmer cum creative artist Gajendra Singh ,even as he hanged on to a tree before hanging himself down to die,was persistently trying to maintain a continuing dialogue for 74 minutes with over 5000 people standing and watching him on the ground. Did any body pay attention to what he said ?There is no record. Why ?Growing sense of human alienation in society where suicides and deaths are no more than numbers. A man is just a mathematical number. So was Gajendra Singh and over a million of farmers whose death is recorded by the National Crimes Records Bureau.
The main culprit is the system of capitalism,its avaricious tendency for money accumulation and fetishism for commodities based on over- exploitation of land and other natural resources which pits human beings [farmers] against soil/land/water. This antagonism also forms the basis of alienation of human beings [farmers] from each other,which is most dangerous for survival ,subsistence and existence. Premature,untimely and contingent death of farmers is but a corollary of socially alienated existence of farmers striving and struggling daily as Robinson Crusoe on secluded islands amidst turbulent capitalist conditions. Farmers as "natural beings"subsist as free owners of land but are ruthlessly dependent on exogenous non natural forces imposed from outside like institutional credit,financing,markets, technologies,resources etc which they find most difficult to cope with.
Framers are now on a look-out for genuine freedom. Having lost natural values ,natural being status and natural meaning of existence ,they seek success which comes by suicide. So having lost values,meaning and oneness with natural conditions of existence,they desperately strive to succeed in achieving their "purpose"of existence which they ultimately find in suicide.
The million dollar question arises- what prompted Gajendra Singh to hang himself in day light and in full public view ?The clue lies in human alienation and social estrangement.Who is culprit ? Capitalism, of course,which promoted concrete individualism .
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