LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 14:6 June 2014
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
         C. Subburaman, Ph.D. (Economics)
Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

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Marxist Reflections in Postcolonial Literature of India

Mudasir Rehman Najar

Exercising Power Structures

There had been numerous changes in the existence of history and it has been elucidated that these changes occur at times due to conflicting experiences of different ideas, economic pursuits and other political and social ideals. While analyzing the causes and effects of these changes, we find that power structures and their exercises are the main concern there.

There are some thinkers who stress that the state should perform most of the functions, while there are others who say it should perform only limited functions. From the very outset, this difference causes an expanding gap in the organization of society. But there are some others who are very critical of this system of power structures between the states and individual.

Attack on Liberalism

Later, the immediate attack on liberalism came from Marxist and Socialist thinkers. When liberalism gained roots in Europe during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and caused the emergence of a new materialistic tendency called Capitalism. The tenants and landlords in the feudal societies got transferred into the bourgeoisie and the proletariat, capitalists and working class. If one owns and controls the means of production (land, capital, machines etc.) and the other owns only the labour power, then he or she has to sell to the Capitalists in order to survive. The contribution of the German philosopher, Karl Marx, is very pertinent, because, he has an appealing point of view in this regard.

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Mudasir Rehman Najar
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