By Shriraksha Mohan
Originally published as a Student Paper in Local and Global Regional Economies, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, USA
Climate change, exacerbated by a warming planet, is a serious threat humanity faces in current times. We are already living in the midst of irreversible change to the global climate, and are experiencing its disastrous consequences. Developing resilience …
Shrii Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar
Vested interests have taken advantage of human ignorance and have penetrated deeply into every arena of society: social, economic, psychic and spiritual. They want to suck dry the entire vitality of humanity. Vested interests do not want the ignorant to see the light of wisdom or the downtrodden to climb up the social ladder; they do …
Welcome to episode 8 of Prout Consciousness and a discussion on Prout’s concept of progress. Progress is one of those big words people use at times to promote particular individual or collective talents. A politician may say at the opening of a new bridge: “By uniting our strength and skills we overcome tremendous obstacles to celebrate progress …
On repeated requests, we are happy to make Prout in 60 minutes available again to readers and students. The program is intended as an introduction to basic concepts and principles of Prout. The original format has been kept from when it was developed in the early 2000s at Prout World, the forerunner to the present Prout Globe. Some of the …
Welcome to episode seven of Prout Consciousness where we will be discussing Prout’s political thought. At the outset, let it be advised that listening to earlier episodes would enable a better appreciation of what is being presented in this episode, as Prout’s political ideas all rest firmly on concepts presented earlier.
Prout invests economic power with the …
Welcome to episode six of Prout Consciousness and a discussion on Prout’s theory of history. First of all, why would history be of importance to socioeconomics? At its best, history allows us to separate myth from reality. For instance, the economy plays the main role in society today, to the point where everything of life at present …
Welcome to episode five of Prout Consciousness where we will be exploring the philosophical basis of Prout. As is well known, certain laws govern our existence. We all have an autonomic nervous system that governs itself, we live for some time only, and during our life everything keeps changing beyond our control. Such existential laws just cannot …
In 1959, Shri Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar published five principles in English as the “five fundamental principles of Prout”. They were published as part of the discourse “The Cosmic Brotherhood” in the book Idea and Ideology. In 1962, Shrii Sarkar published the English edition of another book, Ánanda Sútram, dictated the year before, whose fifth…
Welcome to episode four of Prout Consciousness where we will take a look at Prout’s idea of self-reliant socio-economic units. So far in the series we have discussed decentralised economic democracy and cooperatives, which are practical models for implementing Prout. Now the question comes as to how realistic those models are and how they may be implemented—on …
Welcome to episode three of Prout Consciousness and its appraisal of Prout’s cooperative sector.
Cooperatives, or coops, are the heartbeat of Prout’s localized economic system. As far as form and functioning goes coops are fairly straight-forward entities. The International Cooperative Alliance, ICA, defines a coop as a self-governing association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common …
