Communism is a failure model: Shri Karti P Chidambaram

9th September 2010 - Indian Express

Express News Service Madurai, September 9, STUDENTS should stay away from the principles of Marx or communism because it's a failure and outdated, said Karti P Chidambaram, Congress functionary. He was addressing the Theatre Fest organized by the English Department of Arul Anandar College in Karumathur on Wednesday. Inaugurating the fest, Karti P Chidambaram advised the students to closely follow and study politics and economics to attain wholistic growth. He pointed out that the principles of Marx, Lenin and Mao were no more valuable as Marx's principles were never accepted in his native Germany, neither Lenin was remembered in Russia any more. The principles of communism were outdated and applicable in predevelopment area. Students should be aware of the people who do politics in the name of communism, he opined. He said that the model of government and private sector participation would thrive growth and development of the country. Government and private collaboration is the means of poverty alleviation, he advocated. Karti P Chidambaram pointed out that the mobile phones which had to be procured after laborious procedures, were made available to everyone by private sector participation. The government cannot go house-to-house providing mobile phones like providing free colour televisions or one rupee a kg rice, he commented in a lighter note. It was not practical for the government to fulfill every need of people like in the model of communism, he said. The concept of liberalization was generally misunderstood as causing poverty in rural areas. In fact, it was liberalization which produced lot of opportunities to youth. Students tend to keep away from politics considering it as dirty which is true in the present conditions, however the development of the nation will not be possible without a political change. The change can only occur when the youth get into politics and cleaning the dirt of politics which will pave for the development of the country, he stated. Hence, students should closely monitor the political trends and the educational institutions should encourage the healthy debate of politics in the campus, he suggested. Study politics and economics to be successful in life because most of the time only the science students were considered success in academic circle which is not true, he said. He called the educational department to reconsider the options of examinations and marks system which tend to ruin the students because marks alone cannot produce successful people, he said. He also admonished the system of tuition and home work which engages students only in studies not sparing them time to play and develop a healthy physique. Engage in sports and extra curricular activities along with academics to succeed in life, he told student community