ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY OVER POLITICAL DEMOCRACY!
By Taraka
…“People must develop closer and closer links with each other. One heart must gain a warm and deep understanding of another heart.
To make people conscious of their rights in every sphere of life – social, economic, psychic and spiritual – is called jiṋána vistára [expansion of knowledge]; and [for them] to exercise these rights fully is called
A Prout Globe survey
As is well known, Prout places limits on the individual accumulation of physical wealth. It leaves it to the collective to decide on those limits. The private sector is distinctly regulated under Prout. We should note that such private sector limitations do not refer to psychic and spiritual types of wealth but to physical, material wealth …
By Prabhakar
A few years ago, American investor Warren Buffett famously stated that he paid a lower tax rate than his secretary, thanks to the many loopholes and deductions that benefit the wealthy. So, is the present cry for taxing the rich at all rational?
The political conclusion on taxation is that a tax system always operates within an economic …
By Trond Øverland
All over the world the economy is getting worse for ordinary people.1 Well paid jobs are disappearing and purchasing power is stalled.
When most of the fit population no longer have a decent income, they will neither be able to fend for themselves nor contribute to the economy. Due to the ensuing weak consumption and economic …
The present system of democracy relies on political parties as a means for directing voting processes, representation, etc.
Party politics however only seems to teach us to be quarrelsome, judgemental, divisive, backtracking, tricky, crooked, etc. The party system could be said to act as a bar to natural basic human cooperation.
In fact, the party system generates a class of …
T N Das
…Regarding earning money and hoarding wealth, most capitalists today are pishácavats [ghouls]. In Sanskrit pisháca means “one who breaks the neck of an animal and then sucks out all the blood, leaving only the flesh and bones”. In India it is said that it is extremely difficult to understand the nature of these bloodsucking ‘vampire capitalists’ –
GAYATTRII GHISTA
In 1986, Shrii Sarkar revealed a new mission for humanity – economic democracy. He noted that in no country does there exist an economic democracy. At certain times in history, economic democracy may have existed for a brief period without any conscious awareness and without any clear principles. Later in1989, Shrii Sarkar also gave the mission to …
Can We Do It Ourselves, an educational 60 minutes movie about the need for democracy in the economic arena. From its main premise, that Sweden is a political but not an economic democracy, the film develops and substantiates arguments and practical suggestions for making the world a more economic-democratic place. With input and examples from various countries and regions.…
Dr. Ravi Batra is out with a new book on the alternative to capitalism and communism in the US, this time focusing on how to end unemployment now — despite Congress, that is.
Video interview: Dr. Batra airs some of his current main ideas (30 min.)
Material by and with Dr. Batra on PROUT Globe (click and scroll)
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