| Traditional | Capitalist | Socialist | Communist | Prout | |
| Ownership | Right to private ownership | Right to private ownership | State ownership | State ownership | Worker/Member ownership |
| Cooperation | Subordinated | Subordinated | Subordinated | Subordinated | Coordinated |
| Profit | Profit | Profit is everything | Profit motivation | Profit motivation | Consumption motivation |
| Morality | Objective morality based on laws |
No concept of morality | Objective morality | No morality | Morality based on cardinal human values and spiritual values |
| Minimum necessities of life |
No assurance of minimum necessities | No concept of minimum necessities |
State is custodian, promising minimum necessities | State is custodian, promising minimum necessities | Minimum necessities via constitutionally guaranteed purchasing power |
| Economic evolution | Bottom to top but in an economically isolated way | Individual monopoly system | State monopoly system | State monopoly system | Bottom to top with a program for fundamental economic change |
| Wages | According to work | According to whims of capitalists |
According to ability and need |
According to whims of bureaucrats |
First living wages with rational distribution of special amenities, then gradually higher standard of living |
| Democratic values | Democratic | Undemocratic | Undemocratic | Dictatorship | Democratic based on socio-economic awareness, education and morality without which democracy is a foolocracy |
| Economic competition | Must compete with capitalist ruthlessness | Amoral, diabolic economic competition | No incentive of economic initiatives | Competition between corrupt bureaucrats | Economic efficiency via incentives/ coordination ensuring physical existence, mental expansion and spiritual development |
| Employment | Encourage employment | Seek to employ with smallest possible wage; decreasing employment | Scope for employment but no growth as economy stagnant | Scope for employment at whim of bureaucrat | People will not seek employment. Jobs will seek the people |
| Values of life | Economic prosperity | Economics is everything | Economics is everything | Everything, even people, are for political/ economic manipulation | Material prosperity so as to enable more time for mental development and spiritual liberation |
| Copyright Proutist Universal 2002. The above chart is adapted from an original chart in A Look at Decentralized Economy and the Cooperative System, by Ac. Tadbhavananda Avt., PROUT Research Institute, Copenhagen 1993. | |||||
Long term project but we need to start now to disseminate the thoughts of P.R Sarkar on informational awareness.