Radicals in Search of an Identity?

Reality is a many splendoured totality. Man gains knowledge and understanding about it from his own social and cultural background and mental framework. His personal world view crystallizes through his own reading of reality. This view may not be the same as those acquired by others from their individual standpoints. For instance, the Marxists believe in only one kind of inequality, viz, that caused by the economic relations of class and disregard discrimination on the grounds of gender, race, caste, etc. Hence their standpoint is different from that of feminists or of scheduled castes who have been putting up with inequities arising from gender and caste. Conception of social reality from any one standpoint alone is incomplete. In fact, there is nothing amiss about the plurality in the under­standing of social reality from diverse stand­points.