Are we slaves to the ideology of liberal democracy?
When it comes to ideology and slaves, ideology usually refers to socialism. Socialism was an attempt to overcome the contradictions of capitalism. Real socialism has failed and it will be necessary to study why it failed.
The failure of the socialist experiment doesn't mean that capitalism is just and right. Capitalism isn't just to people because we are in a system that exploits humans. How would you call a world where money is more important than humans?
Socialism became ideologically strong in many countries because it had to eliminate the vested rights of the capitalist system. How strong will the interests of those who benefit from the capitalist system be?
To destroy the existing system, a strong ideology for revolution is needed. Are we aproaching those times now?
Whatever ideology dominates in reality it always leads to problems. The same goes for capitalism as well as socialism. The ideology we call liberal democracy is a very strong ideological system. Liberal democracy is often considered simply as the most realistic system. Liberal democracy means to maximize the freedom of capital.
The system and ideology in which capital is the center of state operation is called liberal democracy.
When it comes to capital, it means that the interests of capitalists become the top priority of state management. Political freedoms that we generally think of, such as individual ideology and freedom of human beings, are only allowed if the freedom of capital is guaranteed. Do you see that as problematic?
Many people think of capitalism as the best fit for human beings. But it's not! The history of capitalism began in the 1500s. Selfishness, in which individuals seek profit, eat well, and live well, cannot be defined as capitalism. If so, it would be capitalism for all living things to survive. If selfishness is called capitalism, then squirrels, who try to eat acorns buried in the mountains in the cold winter, are also capitalists.
The history of capitalism is around 600 years old. It began in Europe and spread all over the world. Today many countries are a product of the Cold War. So it turns out, a free democracy.
The ideological fixation by people is too severe. The problem in socialist countries is that people who are stuck to the ideology of capitalism are worse off than those who are stuck to the ideology of socialism.
While popular democracy stands for socialism, liberal democracy is a term for capitalist ideology. Capitalism and liberal democracy are virtually the same. It is not true that liberal democracy is good but capitalism is bad.
It is no different being a slave to socialist ideology or being a slave to capitalist ideology. The criterion for evaluating human life, socio-political life shouldn't be between liberal democracy or any other political ideology. The criterion for evaluating our lives should be what contributes to public welfare and what should be beneficial to all of the human community. It is meaningless to fight whether socialist ideology is right or capitalist ideology is right.
More than 2,000.000 workers die in aproximately 250M work related accidents or illnesses a year.(https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/03/workplace-death-health-safety-ilo-fluor/)
Most of them are young people and fathers or mothers. If they take it for granted that they are dying from industrial accidents or consequences of their labour, such a society should fall. There is no reason to exist. If it's better for people to die to cut costs, then that's a ruthless capitalism. Then we are in a ruthless liberal democracy.
If more than 50% of the people are in absolute poverty and 10% of the population occupies more than 90% of the state's wealth, then such country and society must fail.
A society or state that considers insensitivity to the pain of others as if it were the original form of liberal democracy, should be destroyed. Pain doesn't only mean physical pain but most people endure stress related mental pain daily.
No one thinks that capitalism should be destroyed by armed revolutionary ideology today, when real socialism has failed. If so, he would be a psychopath.
But even those who think that liberal democracy is supreme are also slaves of ideology. Now that the socialist ideology has collapsed, it may be the stubborn liberal democrats that really threaten our community.
Thoughts and ideologies have no meaning. What is really important is that people don't suffer from oppression and forced poverty as we are witnessing in motion now.
If we are indifferent to the lives of those who suffer in the shadows, the system we are currently enjoying will collapse.
We are slaves to the ideology of liberal democracy. The same is true for slaves of socialist ideology, slaves of capitalist ideology, and worse. We need to learn from the history, not just observe and evaluate it.
Learn and act accordingly!