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 …
Welcome to episode 2 of Prout Consciousness and its discussion on economic democracy. What is the main difference between political and economic democracy? To most people, the right to vote is what is democracy. This universal franchise is the holy cow of political democracy. In addition, the right to express one’s political views and even to join …
Welcome to the introduction to this podcast series. Prout is a comprehensive socioeconomic theory propounded by the Indian renaissance person Shrii Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar. The Prout in a Nutshell series parts 1 to 21 contains all of what Shrii Sarkar published on Prout, and a one volume compilation titled Proutist Economics consists of essential material of that …
Among other things Prout deals with the metaphysical and the supramundane. What are these and how they differ from each other? The answer is really simple: The metaphysical flows from our mind towards the physical world (psycho-physical flow). The supramundane flows the other way—from the world towards our mind (physico-psychic flow).
6th chapter of the book by the same name, published by Proutist Universal, Kolkata, India in 1989. With minimal edits and additional notes. A scan of the original book is available.
Dedicated to: Those revolutionaries of Bengal who gave their life to lay the foundation of revolution and those silent revolutionaries who have taken up the
A certain socioeconomic issue seems to be staring the world’s legislators and policymakers in their face: How can a minimum of wealth be distributed to allow people to stay calm so that the economy remains intact? A bit like the Corona virus conundrum then: How many vaccinated people does it take for the pressure on hospitals …
Socio-economic units should be formed throughout the world on the basis of same economic problems, uniform economic potentialities, ethnic similarities, common sentimental legacy and similar geographical features. … Socio-economic units will have to adopt economic decentralization so that the local people will be able to obtain all the requirements necessary for their physical, psychic and spiritual progress.
