The communists have politicised their followers by making them propagandists. They call the process, Agitprop, a word created by joining Agitation and Propaganda. In a way the process of agitprop is somewhat like religious evangelizing. Their sacred book -The Communist Manifesto- implores party workers to agitprop and their cadres to do interpersonal Mass-Work, win trust of the masses and eventually convince them of the communist worldview, what others simply called Brain-Washing or Indoctrination. This is essentially the agenda of every comrade.
Followers of every sacred book, be it Karl Marx’s The communist Manifesto, Mao’s Red-Book, Christian’s holy Bible or Muslim’s holy Quran, knowingly or innocently have been politicised to support one over other, resulting in some kind of societal powerplay.
The communists have their cadres, Christians have their Missionaries and Muslims have their Maulanas. They and their followers have ‘The Book-Ordained’ duty to propagate their beliefs by Mass-work, Witnessing, Dawat etc tools of respective ideological conversion. Deception and surreptitiousness becomes second nature to these workers. The central belief of all the propagandists is that the other people are ‘asleep’, not knowing that they are being exploited, marginalized and deprived of justice in their current political, religious or social setup and therefore need to be awakened, rescued or saved. Thus, all these followers have that special agenda when they talk to the ‘other’. Behind their talk, be it sweet and friendly in appearance or violent and threatening, is a lurking desire to enroll the other into their fold. This manipulation is one sin, not committable by non-evangelical religions and pagans.
A man with an agenda is feared by a common man. Fear is compounded when the agenda driven men are blessed by authorities of government or religion. Naive, poor, defenceless general public become their easy victims. Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a 1984 Nobel Peace prize winner, from South Africa had brilliantly summed up the plight of the naive poor people: "When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land."Hindu scriptures do not profess evangelism therefore they are free from the sin of arrogance of supremacism and agenda, overt or covert, of canvassing and increasing their ilk at the expense of shrinking other ilks. However, Hindus still do value good qualities and they do implore one thing, just one thing, to everyone, be he or she a Hindu or not, to “कृण्वन्तो विश्वं आर्यं” -Rig Veda 9.63.6, ‘to make our world nobler’. Let's all become gentlemen.
A friend does not do things surreptitiously. He does not claim perfection. He would not have ulterior agendas. He takes you as you are. He sees you as his friend. He is not politicised. Live-and-let-live way of life comes naturally to him. The Indians, majority of them, fit this slot. Non-threatening, not taking sides, eager to help as and when needed.
Depoliticized people look at the other in a friendly, nonpartisan way, as a part of their own and that is what is one important step towards world peace.
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