What is Socialism?

Our world is going through a rather harsh and disturbing time. Doesn’t matter how well off you are and you think it’s not your headache but the fact is at the end of the day it’s really hard to ignore the things that are happening around you. “Human beings are the finest and highest creation of God, we are the only intelligent life form in this entire cosmos” as said by the follower of God and yet we still struggle to measure up as finest creation. If we are the finest and we are alone why are we killing ourselves? Why can’t we leave in peace and stop fighting over insignificant things? Why can’t we help each other instead of drawing ourselves towards extinction? I believe the unfair concentration of power and wealth among a small segment of society that controls capital and creates an unequal society is the greatest cause of everything. Also religion is an extremely powerful thing and a group of politically cunning theist are using that in their favor to control the rest of the world. I believe the next step of human evolution is to get out of these religious idiocy, racial discrimination and imaginary boundaries. If we can’t do that than maybe our extinction is inevitable.

I was reading about Socialism for the past few days and I was really amazed how much the views I have matches with Socialism. Every time we talk about Socialism or Communism, the first thing that come across our mind are the wars but you have to understand that it’s not the ideology that caused the war, it’s the evil inside us that failed us in the past to carry out the ideology. A huge percentage of the world’s population fails to fulfill their basic necessity every day, they go to sleep at night without food and without shelter. Human civilization is like a huge engine, it won’t function properly until all the parts are working, even the tiniest one. A small percentage of the world’s population holds the fate of the rest of the world. We have to think for those who can’t think for themselves. If we are blessed than why can’t we share our blessings? If we can’t do that than how are we the finest? We have to come out of our imaginary boundaries and unite ourselves in order to end the chaos that we are in. We are not citizens of a country, we are citizens of this world. A world which was never meant to be divided.

I believe this Capitalist Democracy won’t work. We can’t take opinion from those who only think for themselves or those who are not capable and doesn’t know what’s good and what’s bad for them and others. A strong leader have to arise in order to convey the message to the people of this world. A message which clearly states that “We are one race, human and this is our world”.



“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader", every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.” – Carl Sagan, The Pale Blue Dot, 1994.