Islam and Communism — Page 6
6. Indigence, want and helplessness were the concomitants of this system. In its worst form Capitalism showed itself in Russia where the Czarist regime with its corrupt court and depraved nobility had reduced the population to mere serfs who lived to minister to the satisfaction of the low desires of the upper classes of society. . A man in the street, a day-to-day labourer or a tiller in the field, was no better than a dumb driven animal. Indeed, worse. An animal has the saving. grace of being insensitive. The Common man in Russia though sensitive had no means to assuage his sensitivity. Inevitably the oppressive system of Russia produced in time a violent reaction against the established regime and swung the pendulum from one extreme to the other. . Right Balance. . Contrary to the two systems, one excessively individualistic and the other excessively collectivistic, Islam chalks out a golden via media. In general it recognises