The society in which we live is full of symptoms. Humans buy and sell goods. But in this sick world, the buying and selling of humans also takes place on a large scale, it is also true that this is not a new phenomenon. Humans, especially women and children, have been bought and sold for centuries. In today’s structure, this work is carried out in an organized manner, on the basis of the government apparatus. Before talking about the rest, let us move forward with what Gorky said in our minds, ‘Be honest for a while and see the truth.’
Today, such things are widely propagated in society, which are aimed at perpetuating the capitalist system, and inhumane phenomena (rape, prostitution, etc.) are avoided by saying that all this has been happening for centuries. Gorky has written, “What is called the spirit and tradition of law creates in the minds of all the intellectuals a simple mechanism like a clock, with the movement of whose bow the wheels of the intellectuals start turning. Every intellectual has a slogan – whatever has been so far, will always remain so. Like a dead fish, intellectuals also start rotting from the brain downwards”. The statements of the politicians of the Indian government are also of the intellectuals. Even women willingly adopt a profession like prostitution, what can the government do about it! If the children of workers are not interested in studying, then they do child labor! It has only been 71 years since we got ‘independence’, slowly the government will do all the work, etc., statements are often heard from people from families who eat and drink.
Let’s try to understand the truth honestly – the third crime that is committed in an organized manner at the global level is the purchase and sale of human beings. India as a nation is a transit country for traders to receive and send women in the world. 80% of the total purchase and sale of human beings worldwide is forced into prostitution and forced marriage. 12 lakh children are bought and sold. Children are forced to do work like digging, domestic work, etc. A large number of children are used as sex slaves.
Talking about India, according to the Ministry of Women and Child Development, it has increased by 25% compared to 2015. There are a total of 10 million prostitutes in India, of which one lakh are in Mumbai alone (Asia’s largest prostitution industry). These prostitutes are burned with cigarette butts, beaten with rods, their bodies are sold every day, women trapped in the clutches of adultery are in a state of life and death at every moment, physical diseases, HIV/AIDS, unwanted pregnancy, cervical cancer, beatings, drug addiction, mental disorders, etc. If someone even thinks of getting out of this quagmire by mistake, the sex traffickers make their condition worse. These traffickers ruin crores of lives in the lust for profit.
One is a direct prostitution den (red light areas), the other is an NGO (making crores of rupees of property under the pretext of social welfare). Recently, the story of the torture going on in the children’s home of Majuffarpur (29 out of 44 children raped, 3 pregnant) was conveyed to the government by Kashis News by 15 March 2018, but on 31 May, an FIR was registered, while in the meantime another project had been approved by a society of the Social Welfare Department. This is a game of dirty capital and power in which ministers change hands for profit and participate with their own ‘honesty’. In the ‘Nari Sankarshan Griha’ of Deoria in Uttar Pradesh, prostitution was practiced. Out of 44 girls, 18 were found missing. Not one but many incidents are crying out that we should not get used to oppression, we should not accept inequality as it is. We should mourn the sick world, but mourning is not enough. The next step is to know the cause of the incident and eliminate the root cause.
We also hear this from the mouths of ‘respectable’ girls that prostitutes choose this job voluntarily. The answer to this is that who is there who would like a hellish life? Its roots are in poverty. This structure is such that it gives birth to diseases, poverty, and a life like insects in exchange for the luxuries of a few people. The demon of capital’s lust keeps finding its victims in these dilapidated slums, making children disappear in broad daylight, buying and selling girls, and taking them to the depths of prostitution by luring them with the lure of a good life, which is the swamp of this system.
Now coming to the next question, is it possible to eradicate it? Without a doubt, the answer is yes. There is a saying, ‘Whoever lives by his own principles, lives by his own desires’. The policy of the capitalist system is to plunder at all costs, the result is the poverty of the working population, a sick world. In 1917, the revolution came to Russia. Lenin and his followers did not start the work of rebuilding the lives of the Russian people from the lives of Russian men, but from the lives of Russian women. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics became a country in 15 years where prostitution and hidden diseases were eradicated. Even after 350 years, the capitalist system has not only eliminated this scourge, but has also continuously increased it. In Russia, since 1923, this evil was attacked, a struggle was waged against the purchase and sale of women, laws were not only drawn on paper, but were practically implemented in unique ways, preserving the self-respect of women, in 1925, a law called the ‘Programme of the Struggle against Prostitution’ was made. Compassionate attitude towards women