Posted by the Editor on Aug 5, 2010 in Vishnu | 0 comments
Thought school is the platform for socialization of knowledge. In class-knowledge systems ‘knowledge’ exists as individualistic or aggregation of individual ‘contributions’. The organization of class society including all its organs is the assembly of individual enterprises. The genesis of a class society is not based on positive natural and social aspects of human existence in this world rather on antisocial, antinature and individualistic contents. Exploitation of humans and nature in a class system is not a concept derived through social synthesis and subsequent social knowledge rather individualistic interpretations and interests based on class divisions in the societies.
In dynamic condition, individualistic interpretation of reality represents the ‘individual’ rather than the subject matter. Because observation, generalization, interlinking, comparison, logical freeplay, etc humans use to interpret the reality do not represent the reality as in itself. Its dynamicity is not common to all observations. So understanding and interpreting reality is different for different observers/interpreters. Socialization of reality based on simple logical interpretations —western education system is a typical example—is nothing more than intellectual hollowness. This is the basic nature of western knowledge system. Based on this aspect, a particular proposition should be socialized—methodological, logical, analytical, and phenomenological aspects—then that could be considered as ‘knowledge’ only for a short period of time in relevance to those aspects which have given birth to that particular knowledge.It is undisputable that western logical and Indian mystical knowledge systems should be replaced by knowledge system which shall represent the vital aspects of reality. Obtaining any socialized knowledge is possible only through socializing all aspects of that particular knowledge through proper social synthesis. In such a synthesis all the aspects of knowledge including methodology, analysis, logic and phenomenology should undergo scrutiny—socialization of knowledge is not plain assembly of aspects and factors of knowledge of different versions, rather it shall represent the evolution and growth of knowledge through proper social synthesis. Such an exercise eliminates individualistic hegemony over thought and knowledge systems.
In this context, the hegemony of individual knowledge withers and in place of that social knowledge emerges. This is the civilizational aspect of egalitarianism which puts end to individualistic hegemony over knowledge and knowledge systems. Even the ‘most advanced class societies’—European countries—are based on crudest form of violence and torture. The organization of these societies is based on individualistic enterprises. This is one of the basics factors of bourgeois democracy. Individualization and subsequent competition is the core thought and value of class societies.