European nation states survive on the looting of other countries

European nation states survive on the looting of other countries

Prof. Kusumlata Kedia  

   There is a big misconception in the educated community of India that perhaps the political thinking of Europe has developed due to its own intellectual capacity. But the truth is different. Political thinking has been developing and changing there as a result of its interaction with other societies of the world. It was only after coming in contact with other countries of the world that people in Europe, fighting against the demonic control of the Church, found ways to limit the Church. After this, seeing the huge states of a nation like India, for the first time the idea of ​​making them big states came up. First of all, Bismarck created a big German Nation State. After that England and other Nation States also developed. After coming in contact with the world, they gave their own colour to the same ideas here. Through this process, Nation States have developed for the first time in Europe about 150 years ago. Nation States have developed only by fighting with the Church. Scientists and other enlightened people proved the basic beliefs of the Church to be false and then the Church was limited to the realm of 'Faith' only and political thinking continued to develop from an intellectual point of view.
Darwin shattered the beliefs of the Church
Charles Darwin wrote his famous book 'Origin of Species'. It shattered all the beliefs of the Church and propounded that man has evolved from monkeys and apes. This made the claim of 'the British being the superior race' made in the Victorian era a matter of ridicule. The entire Church turned against Darwin. There was a great conflict between Darwin's supporters and opponents. After this, John Stuart Mill strongly urged for human freedom in his famous essay 'Liberty'. He declared individual freedom sacred and advocated giving ample space to the individual's free will while staying within moral limits.
This is how England became a nation state
At the same time, the Italian people started their freedom struggle. A fierce civil war also spread in the United States of America. In England, it was decided to build big ships to carry slaves and this helped the supporters of slavery in the United States of America. When Bismarck annexed a part of Denmark to the German Nation State, many people in England demanded that we should support Denmark. But Prime Minister Palmer Stone showed his inability. In competition with Germany, the rich people of England also thought of making England a nation state and through many bills passed between 1865 and 1874, England reached the status of a 'nation state'.
Limited right to vote
Till 1865 AD, only the rich had the right to vote in England. The poor people there used to riot and loot the rich during every election. Elections were held openly and there was no provision for secret voting. The poor people used to protest and create ruckus in favor of this or that candidate. In return, they used to get something to eat and drink. When the supply of cotton stopped in large quantities due to the civil war in America, there was panic in the mills of Lancashire and Manchester and riots started in the cities. This period was called the 'Cotton Famine'. During this period, the demand for giving voting rights to every adult male gained momentum. Many prominent politicians of England started changing parties every now and then. William Gladstone was a Tory at first, later he became a Liberal. Similarly, Benjamin Disraeli also changed parties. Disraeli was a Jew but was converted to Christianity in childhood. He was a strong supporter of the traditional system. There was fierce political competition between Disraeli and Gladstone. Disraeli also believed that only earning and prosperous people should have the right to vote. Because they are the responsible citizens. Also, income tax payers and university graduates, lawyers and doctors should have the right to cast two votes each. Whereas Gladstone demanded that only one person should be given one vote. Finally Disraeli accepted Gladstone's arguments and every rich man in England was given the right to cast one vote. The poor and women were still not given the right to vote.
Why was England made the United Kingdom
Meanwhile, the farmers' movement in Ireland intensified and they started agitating for ownership of land. When the British army suppressed them, clashes started taking place between the soldiers and the farmers at many places. Finally, Ireland was crushed by force and made a part of England. But even then the Irish people were so strong that they forced the joint state formed with England to accept their separate identity. In this way, the separate identities of England and Ireland remained. Similarly, the separate identity of the people of Scotland also remained and finally the United Kingdom of 123 islands was formed in which England, Ireland and Scotland have separate identities. All three consider themselves to be separate nations. That is why it is called the United Kingdom. No single name has been given till date, and it is not even possible to give one. In that sense the UK is not a single nation but a shared state of three nations. 
Continuous strife and war
Before the beginning of the 18th century, not only France and England were fighting among themselves, but England and Ireland and England and Scotland were also fighting among themselves. On the other hand, within England itself, there were continuous fights between Catholics and Protestants. Louis XIV of France fought a fierce war with King William of England and these people also fought heavy battles with the kings of Holland and Netherlands. Till then, these wars were not the battles of national armies but were the battles of different vassals.
After the formation of the Nation State in the 20th century, the ancient disputes of the respective regions also started being addressed from the new Nation State. But the truth is that before becoming the ruler of England, William was the vassal of Orange, a vassal of Southern France and similarly, the Dutch Nation had two different states – Holland and Netherlands. There were wars going on between them too.
In the beginning of the 19th century, the kings of Great Britain and Ireland decided to jointly rule and named it the United Kingdom. In 1803, at the instigation of England, the Wahab vassal of a small area of ​​Saudi Arabia captured Mecca and Medina and named the entire area Saudi Arabia. In 1804, Francis I established the Austrian Empire. In 1805, the fleets of France and Spain fought with each other and finally, due to the superiority of Indian ships, Britain defeated both France and Spain. At the same time, British influence also increased on Egypt and Muhammad Ali of Egypt announced the modernization of his nation.
Inspired by India's storehouse of knowledge, the first university was opened
Meanwhile, the Germans took thousands of valuable texts and documents from India and took them to their country and then for the first time in 1810, a small university was opened in Berlin, which was actually inspired by the ancient Indian universities and by 1850, it took a remarkable shape. In which about 100 students were studying. Hegel, Bismarck and Karl Marx came out of this Berlin University. Germans saw big states in India for the first time and spread this information in Germany. Inspired by this, in 1871 AD, Bismarck merged 300 estates of Germany and announced the establishment of German Nation State for the first time. In competition with this, after some time UK also moved forward in the process of becoming a nation state. Before that UK was not a nation state.
The first war of the 19th century was fought with sword and bow
The gun was made for the first time in Europe in the 19th century AD. When Napoleon fought the war to conquer Europe, there were only a few cannons in his army. Mostly bows and arrows and swords were used in that war. The first revolver was also made in 1814 AD. In 1816 AD, a severe cold wave spread across Europe and that year summer did not come to the whole of Europe. Electricity had not been invented till then. Hence, millions of people in Europe died of cold and starvation.
Expansion of the state through wars and agents
Meanwhile, the powerful communities of England and the merchants skilled in looting and other Europeans had also learnt the methods of looting people outside Europe and were using them everywhere. With the inspiration of England and Italy, a person who had become a Christian in China declared that he was the junior of Jesus Christ and that he had taken incarnation to convert the whole of China into Christianity. With the inspiration of the church and through deceit and fraud, a network of Christian missionaries and churches spread in China and a large number of people started becoming Christians. Then, the Chinese gentleman Sun Yat Sen, who had returned from America after studying, emerged as the leader of the Christians and he gave the slogan of Chinese nationalism and declared the Manchu empire as foreign and declared to start the fight for China's independence. Europe made Sun Yat Sen the biggest leader of China and started trying to pit China against Japan.
Lenin and Stalin were promoted by England and France because they fought against Germany
Meanwhile, the First World War had started and European Christian countries were fighting fiercely among themselves. Germany claimed that wherever there were Huns, it was its territory and hence it had the right to rule over all those territories. Japan joined Germany in this battle for supremacy and the Ottoman dynasty of Turkey also declared its support to Germany. Due to the Indian forces, England and France won this battle and promoted Lenin and Stalin against the Czar and after the war, they were allowed to form the Soviet Union by encircling a large area.
England and France won on the strength of Indian armies
In the Second World War, again the joint front of England, France and the United States of America became active against the front of Japan and Germany and Stalin's disciple Mao Zedong assured England and France of support against Japan. As a result, after the war, Mao's Communist Party was not only allowed to occupy the whole of China, but also Mongolia, the southern areas of Manchuria and Yunnan province. Later, Nehru handed over Tibet to Mao. In this way, in the 20th century AD, Indian armies were the reason behind the victory of the Allied powers in both the world wars and that is why England had to leave India due to the fear of those armies and the pressure of the American President. While leaving, they handed over the throne here to their disciples.
The Suez Canal was constructed during the period 1859 to 1869 AD in search of a relatively shorter route to reach India. At the behest of England and France, the rebellion of Muslims was encouraged in north-western China.
International institutions created for the objectives of war
Meanwhile, an institution called Red Cross was formed as a support service force in the war and it was declared to have the right to go anywhere in the world for service in the midst of war, which in a way was the right to intervene in international matters. The construction of the Suez Canal created a link between the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea, which made the way to reach India easier and also made it easier to reach Indonesia etc.
The world's first labour strike
In 1871-72 AD, a severe famine also occurred in the Parsik region of India in which 20 lakh people died. In 1874 AD, the Home Rule movement gained momentum in Ireland. On the other hand, people from Europe who reached America in search of wealth and property, there was talk of looting and terrible oppression of the local residents. In the state called United States of America which was formed in Central America, due to the availability of land and crops and the availability of some basic amenities of life, the Europeans increased their population rapidly and also continued to expand their boundaries in America. But at the same time, the railway workers went on a nationwide strike against the construction of railway lines by European companies by making American Indians (Red Indians) do bonded labour, which created a stir. This is considered to be the world's first national workers' strike and with its spread, all Europeans started getting scared of Marxism because Marx had announced the downfall of capitalism and the proletariat revolution.
The Communists seized power by treachery: The British supported them
On the other hand, the Czar started mass murders of opponents in Russia. Against this, the Russian peasants revolted fiercely and started a war. The Communist Party under the leadership of Stalin and Lenin, trained by the Europeans, played an important role in this political war and gradually succeeded in infiltrating among the peasant army. Finally, as a reward for supporting England, France and America in the First World War, they were allowed to occupy a very large area, which led to the formation of the Soviet Union. The communists soon started murdering their comrades in the peasant movement and monopolized power.
Killings and cruelty of farmers
All the assurances given to the farmers were denied by the communists. In fact, the killings of farmers were started. Their land was snatched from them. The argument given was that private property is the root of exploitation and hence all property belongs to the state which will distribute it justly. By introducing the new concept of collective ownership of property, farmers were forced to work as farm labourers on their own farms and the management of property was handed over to the workers of the Communist Party. Who became the new landlord class. Milovan Djilas has described this new class in detail in his book 'The New Class'. The traditional life of the farmers was also destroyed. Their ownership of the farms was abolished. Many of them became proletarians and started going to the cities to work as unemployed labourers.
Attractive slogans to hide cruelties
But the oppression of the peasants did not start only after the Soviet revolution. The oppression of peasants in all European countries including England and France was going on continuously since the 14th century AD and fierce peasant revolts kept happening everywhere. These were suppressed again and again. Although the whole of Europe remained an agricultural society till the 19th century AD. The ownership of land was snatched from one group and the other group kept dominating it and this sequence continued continuously. Even then, any kind of industrial prosperity could be achieved only in name till the middle of the 19th century AD in Europe.
As mentioned earlier, in the beginning of the 19th century AD, Napoleon made a strong effort to impose the domination of the French monarchy on the whole of Europe. All the slogans of equality and freedom were only a strategy to mobilize the workers. After the initial success, political snatching started. On 31 January 1793, Danton declared that the boundaries of France extended from the sea to the Rhine river, the Alps and the Pyrenees mountain range. Thus, he declared to subjugate large areas of Holland, Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. This is why he clashed with England. (Europe of the 19th Century by Michael Reppert, Chapter 3, Page 32-33, Macmillan Publications, 2005)
When Louis XVI was hanged in January 1793, anger spread in Europe. At that time, for the first time, some people in England started talking about the English nation. The ruler of Spain also declared war against the French rulers. French forces entered Netherlands, Germany and Belgium and Holland was forced to sign the treaty. French hold on Belgium strengthened. Poland was divided and Prussia started planning its expansion.
French forces started creating havoc in Germany in 1796 AD. Along with this, Commander Napoleon Bonaparte increased pressure against Austria in the borders of Italy. Austria signed a treaty with Napoleon. Austria accepted France's supremacy on the left bank of the Rhine river. The Christian Roman Empire started disintegrating.
Bonaparte attacked Egypt in May 1798. Britain started feeling threatened by this. Finally, Britain and Austria signed a treaty with Russia, Portugal, Naples and Turkey. British Indian Navy surrounded Bonaparte's army in Egypt in 1798 AD and the next year Russian forces along with Austria drove the French forces out of Italy.
In the continuous wars, the principalities of the Christian Roman Empire decreased from 365 to 40. As a result of this war, various states occupied the land of the church. Many intellectuals from France to Germany took ownership of new political developments against the church. Thus, on the strength of the knowledge of the world, especially India, and giving a Christian colour to that knowledge, nationalism gradually developed in Europe in the 19th century AD and people active in opposing the atrocities of the Church developed the concept of nation state which is in a phase of constant change. Because many international institutions have been created to limit the sovereignty of the nation state and for this many international agreements have been made and rules have been framed. In essence, this is a part of the plan of domination by various powerful communities and individuals of the world. Till date, no idea in Europe has really developed for the purpose of knowing any truth of the world. Because no tradition of seeking the knowledge of the Supreme Being has been developed there. Whatever ideas are presented and nurtured there, they are for some material and political i.e. power-oriented purpose. These purposes are so petty that to cover them, a cover of attractive ideas and slogans is created. 

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