Anyone who has outgrown childhood myths and has a sense of realities knows that every country, even if it calls itself a democracy, is in fact ruled by a handful of persons.
Thus, in 1937 the journalist Ferdinand Lundberg wrote a book titled ‘America’s Sixty Families’ which stated that the decisive policy making legislative and executive power in the United States was in the hands of sixty extremely rich families, e.g. the Morgan, Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, Astor, Guggenheim, Ford, Dupont, Mellon, and Whitney families
Similarly, in his book ‘The Power Elite’ published in 1956 the American sociologist C Wright Mills wrote that a small group of individuals in America at the head of the largest corporations control the whole country
Underdeveloped countries like India, though ostensibly democratic, are under double control. Firstly, they are ruled by a handful of big businessmen of the country e.g. Ambani and Adani. Secondly, they are ruled by the developed countries through their agents, the local politicians
As has been stated above, it is a myth that the people of any country rule it. Only a tiny number of persons rule it ( though the Constitution of the country, like that of India, may call it a democracy ).
The question is whether these tiny number of persons who are ruling the country are working for their own benefit ( or for the benefit of those who control them), or for the benefit and welfare of the people ?
For instance, Mustafa Kemal and his military associates, who were modern minded persons, assumed power in Turkey in the 1920s by deposing the feudal minded reactionary Sultan and Khalifa, and rapidly modernized Turkey.
Similarly, the handful of persons who came to power in Japan after the Meiji Restoration of 1868 transformed the country from a feudal, backward country, which it was under the Shoguns, to a modern industrial power.
India too needs a tiny number of modern minded patriots who must come to power, through a historical people’s struggle and people’s revolution, to rapidly industrialize the country and make it a modern industrial giant, like China.
This cannot be done by democratic means, as our people are largely casteist and communal i.e. having reactionary feudal mindsets. It can only be done by a tiny number of selfless, modern minded patriots determined to set up a political and social order under which the country rapidly industrializes, and the standard of living of the people steadily rises
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