Recently, populism has appeared quite a lot and often in society. Is it a phenomenon that brings positive or negative things? Perhaps this is also a question that certainly has different answers depending on the approach and purpose of using it.
Historically, capitalism developed most strongly in the 19th century, when politicians and social activists used the people's name to fight against the interests of the elite, often a minority in society but holding state power. Capitalism often has the following characteristics:
– On behalf of the majority, put forth slogans for the benefit of the people;
⁃ It is a method, a tool to attract and gather the majority against the elite. At first, it has great trust and charm for the masses, because it indeed demands very specific benefits for the community;
⁃ CNDT can combine with other ideological movements, even when these ideas are opposed to each other, to call on the masses to act;
⁃ Another typical characteristic of CNDT is the instability of its stance, or in other words, the ease with which it changes its goals and methods of struggle; it seeks temporary public support rather than implementing fundamental solutions for their long-term, sustainable interests;
⁃ Increasingly, CNDT not only appears in the political field, in parliamentary activities but also spreads to other fields and is used very flexibly by people, in order to gain the maximum number of supporters for their viewpoints and actions;
⁃ With the high openness of today’s society, when science, engineering, and technology help people create a “flat world”, a “fast world”… then socialism is no longer the “exclusive” of political activists. It can easily appear in any individual and this mentality spreads quickly in the community.
Thus, it can be seen that the political nature of communism is increasingly mixed and diluted, and it is often considered just a tool and a means to achieve goals, to the point that people almost consider it pure demagoguery.
Through monitoring and studying some recent events and phenomena, we see a very interesting thing: communism has clearly appeared in some cadres and a part of the people. More worryingly, it takes advantage of the "rebellious, narrow-minded, short-sighted" mentality to create movements with huge consequences: Individual things go against the common interest; taking advantage of the crowd mentality to achieve personal goals; satisfying trivial, even deviant needs in the name of freedom and democracy; using small immediate benefits to destroy big, overall long-term benefits... Whether intentional or unintentional, that is an issue that we must think seriously about and fight to limit the negative aspects that communism brings.
A leader or an elected representative, when meeting with the people, promises this and that, but then quickly forgets. There are cadres who are "half-hearted", doing more than they say. Sometimes they put forward very good slogans, propositions, and eloquent declarations, but they do not know/cannot implement solutions to implement them. There are cadres who, as the Party says, are burdened with "term thinking". There are also cadres who follow suit, colluding with certain phenomena (Lenin called them "following the masses") but do not dare to fight or do not dare to make decisions at important moments according to their authority and responsibility... That is the ideology of those in power. Listening to the people is indispensable for leaders, but life sometimes requires decisiveness and the courage to take responsibility, so leaders must definitely demonstrate it.
What about the populist trend in society? For a long time, we have encountered and witnessed many situations and events where a large community of people loudly criticize something of unclear truth or defend some illegal acts, violations of traditional ethical standards of someone in an emotional way without being based on the discipline of the State's laws and the sad thing is that many times that reaction is only because they do not like (or hate) a certain force, a certain group of cadres. They are ready to be possessed to slander and insult others in the name of protecting the "weak" in an unreasonable way without knowing that they are often promoting evil, negativity, and harming the very people they defend. Populism is often dressed in the beautiful "humanitarian" coat. These manifestations of populism in the masses are increasingly clear, something that we see is very different from the early days of populism.
Leaders whose thoughts and actions are influenced by socialism will not be able to solve strategic problems, and will even hinder the later stages of social development, and will overshadow the role of the political organization they represent. Individuals who use socialism to justify their shallow thoughts and emotions that overwhelm reason will certainly leave behind major negative consequences for the community.
Some thoughts as expressing a deep concern about the rise of Populism today!
