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Written by: kartik trivedi
05/09/2008 09:47  RssIcon

                   

 

 

How many of you know Che Guevera, kindly do not feel down if you don’t know who this man is, and also do not be affronted either if you know him like you know your brother. For those who do not know him I should spend few molecules of my ATP, describing him.  By profession he was a physician, and later due to some personal experiences followed the conduits of Marxism. He later became a Marxist revolutionary and was revered in this respect. He was the master of guerilla warfare and as he was one of the staunch Marxist crusader, which meant he was in tussles with America, for obvious reasons. His area of work was mostly latin America, you can know more by googling about him.
How many of you know Mahatma Gandhi, now don’t feel insulted if you know him, and if you do not know him then, mate, go check mirror, there you will find a #$!@. So I think every one reading this entry knows who Mr. MK Gandhi was, and also know his importance in Indian perpective. Mr. Gandhi wasn’t a staunch supporter of capitalism either. He stressed more on socialism, more on equal distribution of resources, which, by its ethos capitalism doesn’t supports.
Both Mr Guevera and Mr Gandhi are amongst the 100 most influential people of 20th century.  There is not much similarity between both of them but that both of them in their way were against the influence of capitalism. Now after reading this you must be trying hard to conjoin the heading and the substance you have read so far and might have come on conclusion that I am full of time wasting @#@$.  But now let me pour down some wonderful paradoxes. They are in fact great capitalistic icons, more than they are icons of Marxism or socialism.
Before you come up with counterviews, just see you pocket and you may find proof of what I am saying. Mr.Gandhi resides on very symbol of capitalism. Gandhi like Che has become brand. Their brand values are bigger than what they were when they lived. When US presidential candidates says that he seeks inspiration from Mohandaas Karamchand Gandhi then you can bet that if he was listed in any global stock market his stock value must have sky rocketed. Same goes with Che, not many know him (in India),  not many follow what his aims were or what he did, but would wear T’s with his iconic photo on. Che in India is comparatively a newer brand but in Latin America he has had his presence from long time. Look around and you may find few of his photos, on caps, on shirts, on sweat shirts and so on. Yes there are cigars carrying him as an icon ( due to his Cuban roots). 
Success by its nature is capitalistic, and if you are successful then you can not deny that you are there without capitalism. Capitalism isn’t just an economic term, and now holds greater social significance. Skipping capitalistic point of view, while carrying ant plan of yours aren’t going to bring you basket full of fruits of success. Humans by nature seek icons; no society has ever escaped from any kind of symbolism, or icons.  It has always gone like that and will always go like that, I wont put more views herein, and would like to reply on comments carrying counter views.
Gandhiji , Che for many still hold special value, not marred by petty capitalistic views, but as far as populist culture goes they are losing their value. They are slowly becoming irrelevant, but I bet that they will never get completely vanished; capitalism will save them for us, for future.  And as far as fashion is concerned, Che is really hot these days; fashion icons are flaunting him on their sexy bodies publicizing him more than his ideology.  Same goes with Gandhiji, political parties flaunt him, put slogans around him while showing complete Alzheimer as far as his teachings are concerned. Have I lost hope…no ways…I believe in capitalism, it wont let them die, there will be authors writing about them, churning money, they will continue as brands, and their ideology, teachings will wait for someone who is ready to follow them and not just fashion.

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Re: Capitalistic Icons

very good approach kartik to introduce such a eminent personality
hope people will get benefit after reading your article.

By vivek kumar pandey on   25/07/2008 23:07

Re: Capitalistic Icons

i wait new blogs....

By Sushma on   29/07/2008 16:22

Re: Capitalistic Icons

I would like to differ on your view that "success by its nature is capitalistic"......Indeed, capitalism can be viewed in terms of sucess but it cannot be branded as the only war forward.
I believe success in capitalism is rather individualistic or on a broader point of view it is confined to only to "elite" group. Success in capitalism has always come at the cost of others. How the west suceeded? Imperialism.......
Capitalism in itself is insensitive, cold brutal force.. for capitalism society doesnt exist and society and unity was the biggest weopoen gandhiji had...So, I wont include gandhiji as capitalist but he was more of a socialist.........it was a good post, frankly I didnt know much about Che Guevera and if you have some good articles about him please give me the links...I would like to know more.....related to the life of Mahatma Gandhi. The first is a website that contains some of his writing. http://www.mkgandhi.org/ The second is a website for a publisher in india that publishes some of his books that may not
be that widely distributed. By the way, he signed over what he owned in his will to this publisher and they were the people that printed the newspapers that he used to spread the word during his life to liberate india from british rule http://www.navajivantrust.org/....Hope this is helpful !.......... P.S. Currently I have just lived in australia for 2 months and I hate capitalism and selfishness here..

By yawer on   11/09/2008 09:54

Re: Capitalistic Icons

Yawer...
Nothing has failed humanity more than capitalism...but still capitalism is better than other 'isms.
I have never said that Gandhi ji was capitalist, its the present generation which have made him capitalistic icon...no matter how much we hate capitalism but in a way or other we try to reap benefits from it. and as far as selfishness is concerned, i believe that there remains lot for humans to evolve into better being.

By kartik.trivedi on   12/09/2008 14:47

Re: Capitalistic Icons

1. I would agree with you that present generation has made him a mere icon though I still would differ from him being a capitalistic icon.....2. any idiology (here I am strictly talking in economic terms ) depends on the context of the society and the value inherited from the culture.... we as Indians cannot embrace the hardcore capitalism....if unfortunately we do.. then go knows what will happen to the 22% of population which is still below poverty line.... We have been known to be socialists (again recall Gandhiji's essential weopon)... but again our economy stands on capitalism...... or lets define a new term socio-capitalism :P

About selfishness... yea depends on individual and how one takes life... by the way i read wiki's article on Che after reading your post...

your article a great example of two people having same idiology but following completely different Path (one non voilence and other voilence)

By yawer on   12/09/2008 16:27

Re: Capitalistic Icons

wonderful to have to have such a wonderful thread...
India is very unique in many cases in economy is one of those...onus for development is in some way is one the capitalistic behemoths they should lead and take active part in social development.
Why I still believe in capitalism is because, if you aim for long term profits then you can not ignore social developments. Educated society is in way requirement for for various industries not just at labour level but also at consumer level. And example of e-choupal by ITC is wonderful example of how capitalism can benefit the bottom of pyramid. No nation on principles (only echoing your views) can embrace hardcore capitalism as there is no such thing, only thing which matters is long lasting profits.
One more thing which I would like to highlight, is that an educated society will have more vivid consumption pattern than illiterate one. This point is worth a separate post.... ;)

By kartik.trivedi on   14/09/2008 00:55


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