The latent submarine of Hindutva resurfaced in India in 2014. Since then, right-wing ideas that have a massive impact on the human body, person, polity, and society have surged. Several other countries across the globe have also witnessed a surge in right-wing ideas.
Right-wing cadres organise themselves around hate politics that pit communities against one another, which is antithetical to the human thirst to connect with and include people. The larger the tribe, the larger the probability of finding compatible individuals to share our lives. So, the artificiality of right-wing politics – the fact that it swims against the tide of human nature – makes gathering cadres a gargantuan task. Individuals with excellent organisational skills will need to exert immense propulsive force.
In India, the ruling BJP-RSS in India has ‘developmental programs’ to indoctrinate individuals into their fold. Organisation leaders, arranged into the upper and lower rungs of the party hierarchy, oversee these programs. Individuals who rise to such leadership roles within parties may have an aptitude to entice their followers with their dictatorial sway over people, akin to patriarchs who rise to power within highly centralised, exclusionist, and discriminatory family systems and go on to exercise that power to propagate and protect their moral code in the family unit.
People get enticed partly out of fear and partly from the inability to imagine themselves detaching from the system and cultivating an individual orbit, as opposed to orbiting around a dictator. We have to realise that this individualisation is crucial to the individual and his/her community. Fulfilling one’s human potential is key to supplementing one’s community with a sense of self-sufficiency.
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