Sansar ka majdur haru ek hau.( nepali)
Workers of the world, unite!
(German) Proletarier aller Länder vereinigt Euch!,
A picture containing these words and some beard old people used to be hung in my bedroom on the wall above my head. For many years the infested long rectangular picture and its contains have grinned me. Growing up, the aforementioned statement confused me on the fact that is the communist around the world are workers or all the workers around the world are communist. On recent days I wonder with another fact that why this statement became the prime agenda in communist manifesto. There are many workers who are not communist. I’m trying to write about workers but it’s so sad that I’ve to be little political. During my childhood my poetry, my drawings and my thinking was all captured by that statement. The characters from then Bollywood movies used to support my imagination of a worker and the idea why Karl Marks proclaimed those words. In the movie a young energetic factory workers sees the inequality in wages and fights with the masters and owners for the proper wages, in the middle of the movie he falls in love with his master’s daughter or sister. At the end it becomes the happy ending but the tyranny and the torture to the hero made me stand up being a rebel.
My childhood imagination of a worker is different to what a worker is defined by the present world. After the emancipation from the churches and royals and the hard work during the industrial revolution, we live in a world where virtually everybody is dignified by the work he/ she does. That was grade six where my honorable teacher taught me the term dignity to labor. For a society whatever we do is respected and has a purpose but this theory fails when all the jobs don’t yield same level of quality living. Then we start up getting the divides in society, haves and have-not, rich and poor, high-class and lower class, blue color and white color and next divide we are facing is digital divide- people with modern digital appliances and knowledge to use them and without. The difference in payroll of white color, blue color and no- color is the distance between heaven to hell. The new color I have added is no- color for the immigrant workers which are the backbone of the economy. They work hard to pursue the American dream. Yes, their hard work has made a great impact in this country since centuries but When we address them as hard workers a question arises why their country is still undeveloped and poor? Chapter of dignity to labor speaks wide clear.
Workers of the world, unite!
(German) Proletarier aller Länder vereinigt Euch!,
A picture containing these words and some beard old people used to be hung in my bedroom on the wall above my head. For many years the infested long rectangular picture and its contains have grinned me. Growing up, the aforementioned statement confused me on the fact that is the communist around the world are workers or all the workers around the world are communist. On recent days I wonder with another fact that why this statement became the prime agenda in communist manifesto. There are many workers who are not communist. I’m trying to write about workers but it’s so sad that I’ve to be little political. During my childhood my poetry, my drawings and my thinking was all captured by that statement. The characters from then Bollywood movies used to support my imagination of a worker and the idea why Karl Marks proclaimed those words. In the movie a young energetic factory workers sees the inequality in wages and fights with the masters and owners for the proper wages, in the middle of the movie he falls in love with his master’s daughter or sister. At the end it becomes the happy ending but the tyranny and the torture to the hero made me stand up being a rebel.
My childhood imagination of a worker is different to what a worker is defined by the present world. After the emancipation from the churches and royals and the hard work during the industrial revolution, we live in a world where virtually everybody is dignified by the work he/ she does. That was grade six where my honorable teacher taught me the term dignity to labor. For a society whatever we do is respected and has a purpose but this theory fails when all the jobs don’t yield same level of quality living. Then we start up getting the divides in society, haves and have-not, rich and poor, high-class and lower class, blue color and white color and next divide we are facing is digital divide- people with modern digital appliances and knowledge to use them and without. The difference in payroll of white color, blue color and no- color is the distance between heaven to hell. The new color I have added is no- color for the immigrant workers which are the backbone of the economy. They work hard to pursue the American dream. Yes, their hard work has made a great impact in this country since centuries but When we address them as hard workers a question arises why their country is still undeveloped and poor? Chapter of dignity to labor speaks wide clear.
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| A no- color vendor leaves his cart in parking lot as he takes a break from 100 degree heat on labor day in dallas. |
Today is the Labor Day which is X-mas, Ed, Dashain, CINCO de MAYO, Akwasidee festival and fiesta for workers. While I’m writing this there are many workers who don’t have enough food for tonight, not enough baby diapers, many are short on this month’s rent and mortgage which is already due many lack behind for the savings for the college fund for their kids. These are not the scenarios of a poor economy. This has been the situation of workers all over the world, a coal mine digger of Africa, a factory worker of China, call operators from India, cow herds from Texas, fishermen from Caribbean, oil miners from middle east, farmers from brazil and workers around the world are mingled with similar situations. A big Question is, are worker’s toil paid pence per pence? Since the productivity of world has risen up and the concept of global village is growing day by day, the theory of unifying workers throughout the world might seem possible. Perfection in any economy is never possible and the divides in the society will prevail for ever but the better working conditions, better schools and access to hospitals might sooth the pain of working class around the world. Every worker can work with the zeal to live a better life and work with an urge to move forward. Every government owes their workers for their hard work at least for today and at least for today those no- color workers are to be felicitated. Happy Labor Day.
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