Who is to be blamed for the farmer's poor & miserable conditions?
The government? The political parties & especially BJP/Congress parties? The bureaucracy, police or judiciary? Political, economic conditions? Or farmers themselves?
Whoever to be blamed, but farmers are in miserable & pitiable conditions, suicide among them is rising, loans are becoming un-payable, many of them are quitting farming & migrating to cities, pauperisation is routine now, etc.
But there is another question here? Whom are we calling farmers? All those who are engaged in farming or sustaining themselves on agriculture? Those big farmers, big investors, middlemen, capitalist farm owners & agents, small farmers having 2-3 acres of land, wage earners who work on others land, etc? The interests of all those who are related to land are not same, often opposed to each other. Very important question to understand! Here, for simplicity, we mean by "farmer or peasant", the one who is working on land to manage subsidy, who is not hiring others to make profit!
Yes, whole affair is sad. But once again, what makes farmers neglected? By the way, is not the same with the workers in unorganised as well as in informal sectors? Even with the agricultural workers? The homeless vagabonds? They also do not get the needed pay, pension, medical facilities, insurance cover, etc, which is available to the workers of the public sectors as well in organised sectors!
It is the market, which is ruling the farmers, workers, players (Cricket players are much better paid than football players or other sport persons), unequal pay to women for same works, massive chronic unemployment, etc!
Market & its blind laws (As we have no control over it, like economic boom & doom at certain periods, anarchic production, law of supply & demand) rules the mankind, who created market!
And surprisingly (And not even surprisingly), market economy has become synonym with "freedom" & "Democracy", right to think & speech, at least for the middle class pseudo intellectuals!
If we have to free the peasants or farmers from the miseries, exploitation, we need to see the society holistically, which is divided into two clear classes, one is the exploiters, the ruling class, less than 5% of the population, which even includes the politicians, top police, bureaucratic, judicial officials.
Second is the exploited class, the working class, peasants & other exploited classes!
If we are able to see the distinct classes, opposed to each other, as good as enemy, our political line and struggle, hereafter, becomes revolutionary, on class understanding, class affinity, class unity & finally class struggle.
Class struggle means method, which is destined historically, to dispossess the ruling class, the capitalist class from all the means of production & its hegemony, which arms it to exploit the rest, grow on others labour power & establish the rule of the hitherto exploited class, but not over any other class, but to eliminate the class itself, the base of all inequality, miseries, exploitation & oppression, parasitism & eventually establish Socialism!
Last point here, without going into details. The working class, due historical reasons, due freedom from the means of production of all kinds, including land, being close to 1000s of colleagues in a confined area, while working in some industry or mines, is the most advanced class today (and even considering the classes of the past) and with the most revolutionary potential, is most suited to lead the revolution, and is capable of allying peasants and other exploited classes & giving them the due they deserve in struggle and afterwards!
For the revolutionary party, armed with the revolutionary ideology, the working class is the mind & body of the organisation and the allies are the limbs, without whom the revolution will not succeed!
Long live the workers, peasants unity! Long live revolution!
