The brute reality of capitalism
Saturday, 6 June 2009
Ahmed Showkat Masud
This scribe had an opportunity to go through an article that said the wages or salaries paid to the garments workers or labourers are not justified (though this was not exactly what the title of that article went like, still the meaning was such). It was published in The Financial Express on May 27, 2008. However, the intention here is not to hurt the writer of that article.
Let us look back to the history of industrial revolution in Britain or England. What happened then? A husband (a worker) worked in a factory in one city. The wife worked in a factory of another city. The family broke, because the husband and wife were low-paid workers. They were not salaried. Who got the salary? The temporary workers or the permanent staff? What is going on in our country? We are passing through a developing stage of economic growth. Both have similarities. We are crying like crocodile for the workers. At the same time, we are taking every opportunity of the capitalistic economic development. Is it not self-contradictory?
If one is a supporter or worker or leader of a socialist party or a so-called communist party, why should he or she run after money in the guise of a socialist/ or so-called communist? Why should he or she use the (modern) technology, for example, the e-mail?
There are lobbies. Be those from the business community or from the political party/parties. One business lobby is Federation of the Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FBCCI). A political lobby may belong either to the ruling party or the opposition party/parties from parliament (since we have a parliament and a democratic one at that). Why should a leftist political leader be elected with the ticket of a power-seeking political party (ruling party) which is doing politics with the economic agenda of capitalism?
Please give us the answer. Pro-poor budget doesn't mean that a political party is doing politics with the idealism of the leftist politicians. Or giving priority to the interests of the middle-class doesn't mean that a political party is doing politics based on socialism or communism. Ruling and opposition political parties are doing their politics based on the ideal of capitalistic socio-economic system. It is crystal clear to everybody, at least to those who are literate. A literate person knows of the brute reality of capitalism from his/her commonsense.
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The writer is at AB Bank Ltd., Anderkilla Branch, Chittagong
This scribe had an opportunity to go through an article that said the wages or salaries paid to the garments workers or labourers are not justified (though this was not exactly what the title of that article went like, still the meaning was such). It was published in The Financial Express on May 27, 2008. However, the intention here is not to hurt the writer of that article.
Let us look back to the history of industrial revolution in Britain or England. What happened then? A husband (a worker) worked in a factory in one city. The wife worked in a factory of another city. The family broke, because the husband and wife were low-paid workers. They were not salaried. Who got the salary? The temporary workers or the permanent staff? What is going on in our country? We are passing through a developing stage of economic growth. Both have similarities. We are crying like crocodile for the workers. At the same time, we are taking every opportunity of the capitalistic economic development. Is it not self-contradictory?
If one is a supporter or worker or leader of a socialist party or a so-called communist party, why should he or she run after money in the guise of a socialist/ or so-called communist? Why should he or she use the (modern) technology, for example, the e-mail?
There are lobbies. Be those from the business community or from the political party/parties. One business lobby is Federation of the Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FBCCI). A political lobby may belong either to the ruling party or the opposition party/parties from parliament (since we have a parliament and a democratic one at that). Why should a leftist political leader be elected with the ticket of a power-seeking political party (ruling party) which is doing politics with the economic agenda of capitalism?
Please give us the answer. Pro-poor budget doesn't mean that a political party is doing politics with the idealism of the leftist politicians. Or giving priority to the interests of the middle-class doesn't mean that a political party is doing politics based on socialism or communism. Ruling and opposition political parties are doing their politics based on the ideal of capitalistic socio-economic system. It is crystal clear to everybody, at least to those who are literate. A literate person knows of the brute reality of capitalism from his/her commonsense.
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The writer is at AB Bank Ltd., Anderkilla Branch, Chittagong