By Shrii Prabhat Rainjan Sarkar
The following is the 31st and last chapter of Shrii Sarkar's book Ráŕh: The Cradle of Civilization, Ananda Marga Publications.
This world of ours is made up of good and bad. And the good and the bad things are done not so much by nature as by human beings. The good things that humans …
The following was authored by Shrii Sarkar in 1959 as part of the two-part Human Society series. For clarification on the various psycho-social classes mentioned in the article, please see Shrii Sarkar's discourse on the dynamics of the social cycle and related material on this site.
By Shrii Prabhat Rainjan Sarkar
The subservient intellectuals employ all their intellectual power to …
When Shrii Prabhat Rainjan Sarkar first introduced PROUT in 1959, he focused on the need for cultural recovery following colonial domination of India and the rest of the so-called Third World. In addition to political and economic exploitation, the cultural identity of colonized people had been harmed. He pointed out the need to reclaim local traditions, knowledge, memory and identity.
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By P.R. Sarkar
Capitalism has always adapted to changing circumstances. Thus we see that in different periods there have been different forms of capitalist exploitation such as feudalism, laissez-faire capitalism, imperialism, colonialism, neo-colonialism, mixed economy, multinational corporations, etc. Today even communism, which was once a deadly weapon against capitalist exploitation, has become a blunt and obsolete tool.
Psycho-economic exploitation is …
By P.R. Sarkar
Considering the collective interests of all living beings, it is essential that capitalism be eradicated. But, what should be the proper method to achieve this end?
It cannot be denied that violence gives rise to violence. Then again, nothing can ensure that the application of force without violence, with the intention of rectification, will necessarily bring good …
(1981, Calcutta) – According to Karl Marx, the creation of surplus value is the source of economic exploitation. Capitalists convert the surplus value into money value and that is how they accumulate profit. After analysing the capitalist economy, Marx reasoned that all profit is exploitation because profit means the denial of the legitimate right of the working class to the …
By P.R. Sarkar
Very often people say that a particular individual or a particular community of people is badly exploited. What they mean by “exploited” is this: that people are being exploited in the economic stratum. But if we go deeply into the matter, we shall discover that the exploitation has been perpetrated not only in the economic stratum, but …
By P.R. Sarkar
The words práńa dharma mean the cardinal characteristic of a person which differentiates one person from another. Just as each human being has his or her own traits, similarly an entire race living within a particular geographical, historical and cultural environment will also inhere some traits which distinguish that particular race from other. These traits or specialities …
P.R. Sarkar
At the very outset let me state that many theories have been propounded on this earth. Some of them survived for some time and then gradually passed out of existence; others emerged like meteors, exhibiting their dazzling radiance for a very short time, and then vanished into darkness. The mere existence of a theory is not the essential …
P.R. Sarkar
While trying to fight against any sort of exploitation, first we must have a clear understanding of the nature of the exploitation. Today human society is subjected to ruthless exploitation by capitalists. Capitalist exploitation has brought humanity to the brink of disaster by spreading its exploitative tentacles into every aspect of human life.
According to PROUT, capitalist exploitation …
