From the booklet PROUT, What It Stands For
Before analysing the Progressive Utilization Theory in detail, let us see what is actually meant by the term progress. Nowadays a tendency has developed to use to word “progressive” as a means to attract people in one’s favour just as the two often quoted words “democracy” in politics and “socialism” in economics …
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PROUT, What It Stands For: The fallacy of mixed exonomy
From the booklet PROUT, What It Stands For
As a sequel to the intolerably increased burden of capitalism and communism the moderates have evolved a midway – the mixed economy. It is a peculiar medley of the mutually contradictory theories of capitalism and socialism. In reality mixed economy is ludicrously absurd.
It is preposterous to think of a lasting friendship …
Prout, What It Stands For: The alternative to capitalism and communism
PROUT presents a happy blending of individual and collective interests. The following offers a brief look at the way these interests have been promoted by capitalist and collectivist (communist) theories respectively.
From the booklet PROUT, What It Stands For
The Age of Adam Smith and Capitalism
Adam Smith – the father of modern capitalist philosophy – was deeply influenced by …
The PROUT Companion: Political System
Q. What is the fundamental difference between the proutistic political system and other political systems with reference to motivation and structure?
The motivation and purpose behind the proutistic political system is basically to administer in a manner so that economic institutions are able to materialize the principles and policies of a progressive economy, and that the society progresses ahead with …
The PROUT Companion: Agricultural Policy
Q. What should be the percentage of population supporting themselves on agriculture?
In a developed economy only 30 to 45% of the population should support themselves on agriculture. In countries where a greater population live on agriculture there should be an endeavour to shift the surplus population to agro-based and agrico-(post-harvest) industries.
Q. What will the mode of development of …
The PROUT Companion: Industrial policy
Q. What will be the Proutistic industrial policy?
PROUT propounds a system of decentralization of economic power. The centralization of economic power, whether it is in the hands of individuals or the state, such as under capitalism and communism respectively, leads to economic-political exploitation. Private capitalists venture to suck the vital juice from the social tree.
For decades the global …
The PROUT Companion: Economic Aspects
Q. What are the basic principles of the PROUT economy?
The minimum essentials of life must be provided to each individual according to the standards of the time, by providing a minimum of purchasing power through employment. The surplus after meeting the minimum necessities will have to be distributed among those of special merit according to the degree of merit.…
The PROUT Companion: Theory of History
Q. What is history?
History is an expression of collective psychology. Every event in the historical phenomenon is an expression of this collective psychology.
By dint of a powerful psychic momentum and expanded vibrational waves a great personality or a powerful movement may exert a mighty impact on social movements or the collective psychology. The social psyche would then undergo …
The PROUT Companion: Philosophy
Consciousness is the Supreme subjectivity and all other mundane subjectivities or objectivities are mere blendings of the absolute subjectivity. P.R. Sarkar1
I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness. Max Plank2
The nucleus of this Cosmic …
The PROUT Companion: The Four Aspects
Developed social thought ought to be comprised of the following four aspects: philosophy, theory of history, economic theory and political thought.
Philosophy is the synthetic interpretation of cosmology – the origin and evolution of the entire Cosmic phenomenon. It deals with the origin and development of the species including the human. It explains the origin and existential position of human …