In this Industrial Age of terrible exploitation of the masses, the one hope is to be frugal in one's ways and to collectively resist the inroads of consumerism.
Scientific development ought to make life easier, so it is hoped, but the avaricious hand of crony capitalism can yet make life harder for the common man at a time when he has lost his rural agrarian moorings and is forced to subsist on a diet of decadent and desirous urban delicacies that thin the purse even as they create an ever-widening economic disparity between two opposed classes that in Marxian terminology has been dubbed 'the class divide' with its consequential corollary to follow in its wake, 'the class struggle' culminating in revolution.
Shall such an eventuality even now arise at a point in history when communism seemingly has well nigh died its natural death throughout the world? Or, are the embers glowing still for a fresh series of revolutions yet to break out in the world, seeking the end of exploitation?
written by Sugata Bose
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