Rise of Right-wing Globally!

It is not just in India that the right wing has swept the nation. Other countries where this has happened are Brazil, United States, Britain, Canada, Australia, Russia, Israel, Hungary, Poland, Turkey, Sweden, Japan, Philippines...

Each country had different political, economic, and cultural conditions for this global rise of the populist right. Many consider it basically as an existential battle for the nation’s survival and for the preservation of its culture.

There are several factors leading to right-wing populism. I have listed many of them, not in any particular order:

• Wide-ranging and massive political corruption
• High crime rate
• Drug and gang violence
• Anger at secularists
• Deterioration of economy
• Anger at immigrants invading homeland
• Mass disillusionment with the political elite
• Rise of Internet and social media for faster and easier communication
• Fear of cultural dilution
• Keen desire for a nationalist ideology
• Globalization of nationalism
• Withering away of national culture and traditions
• Reclaiming national sovereignty
• Financial crisis / economic troubles
• Globalization of capitalism
• Global collapse in the power of labor relative to capital
• Liberal internationalism in foreign policy
• Accelerating urbanization
• Collapse of village, family hierarchies
• Anxiety about order caused by dystopian view
• Punishing established leadership for incompetence
• Giving newcomers a try with a glimmer of hope
• Rise of Islamic radicalism, terrorism, and violent extremism
• Rising Islamophobia
• Disillusionment with Socialism / Communism
• Entrepreneurialism
• Neo-liberalism

However, the left wing extremists are not taking the global spread of right-wing populism sitting down. They are desperately resorting to violence and extremism. Recently, riots have broken out in Delhi, Bangalore, several US cities, and the Swedish city of Malmö.

Across the globe, the left-wing presents diverging dynamics and relationships with national governments as well as political parties. In India, the left wing consists of all parties and groups that are opposed to BJP -

Congress, CPM, Samajwadi Party, Trinamool Congress, AAP, the urban naxals, the radical-elements of Islam, the left-leaning academicians, historians, and intellectuals, ...

BJP's ideology insists that multi-religious and multi-ethnic India is fundamentally a nation built on ancient Indian civilization and culture based on the Vedic principles of Sanatana Dharma that had existed 10,000 years back, much before the term 'religion' originated with the advent of Abrahamic religions only 2700 years back.

The concept of Sanatana Dharma, according to Upanishads, is an eternal and universal principle of law, order, harmony, and truth and acts as the regulatory moral principle of the Universe.