The politics we should know

In my last blog post I briefly talked about how one should look at the Indian politics. There I wrote that one should have a through background check of their own favourite political parties. But in this post I'm not going to write about the history and background of  various political parties because that would be educating you people . I don't want to educate people  , I want to raise the awareness among the masses. Hopefully I may succeed in that one day but that day is far far away from happening . So today I'm going to talk about how the political parties should be segregated or organised at least in our minds.

                                                   

Left–right political spectrum

 The left–right political spectrum is a system of classifying political positions, ideologies and parties, from equality on the left to social hierarchy on the right. Left-wing and right-wing politics are often seen opposed. Although a particular individual or group may take a left-wing stance on one matter and a right-wing stance on another; and some stances may overlap and be considered either left- or right-wing depending on the ideology. This is the general method of looking at the political parties all over the world.But when it comes to the Indian politics the scene is not the same.

These terms have a confusing meaning in the Indian context ,but historically "Right" has broadly come to be associated with conservative parties while "Left" with socialist parties.

Conservatism is a political and social philosophy promoting traditional social institutions in the context of culture and civilization. The central tenets of conservatism include tradition, human imperfection, organic society, hierarchy and authority, and property rights.  

Socialism on the other hand is a range of economic and social systems characterised by social ownership and workers' self management of the means of production as well as the political theories and movements associated with them. But don't let these words and definitions fancy your thinking. 

The above words have a very different relevance in the Indian context. To simplify the above words in Indian context let's look at the picture below.

And this is how the Indian media labels the various political parties based on the right-wing and left-wing political perspectives.

I'm not going to explain much on the above picture as it's self explanatory. More can be talked about the right-wing and the left-wing ideologies using INC and BJP as examples but let's keep that for another time.

Till then sayonara!!!!!