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PROUT |
Capitalism |
Communism / Socialism |
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H U M A N D E V E L O P M E N T |
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Promotes the integrated development of the full human personality. |
Diverse expression of personal freedom with no clear conception of human potentiality. |
Primarily concerned with the political and economic spheres of life. |
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FREEDOM |
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Grants full freedom of psychic and spiritual expression, but recognizes the need for society to place limits on individual hoarding of wealth. |
Licentious freedom of expression is permitted but not a freedom from want and material insecurity. |
Limited by the primacy of the interests of the state. |
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PRIVILEGED INTERESTS |
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Gives central importance to common welfare while protecting ecological integrity. |
Privileges the interests of the party and state. |
Gives primacy to property rights and thus privileges the class controlling capital. |
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PROGRESS |
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Defines progress as the increase in inner fulfilment of individuals. |
Regards material development as the basis of progress. |
Regards material development as the basis of progress. |
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CULTURE |
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Sees need for culture to emerge out of regional and ethnic experience, and for these variegated expressions to instil values which empower the human psyche. |
Mass culture primarily serves commercial interests. As a result, it is creative but not authentic, energetic but often destructive of higher values. |
Compels culture to be consistent with state ideology. |
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MOTIVATION |
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Strives for balance: Maximizing the efficacy of incentive while minimizing social inequality. |
System of incentives motivates high productivity, but the excess of its monetary rewards wastes collective wealth, encourages greed, and disrupts social unity. |
Emphasizes income equality at the expense of individual productivity. |
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ENVIRONMENT |
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Neohumanist |
Lacks a clear value context for environmental protection; unsuited to sustaining environmental integrity because it emphasizes short term gain of profit or productivity and ignores long term costs of environmental degradation. |
Lacks a clear value context for environmental protection; unsuited to sustaining environmental integrity because it emphasizes short term gain of profit or productivity and ignores long term costs of environmental degradation. |
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PLANNING |
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Decentralizes planning authority to the level at which people are most aware of economic problems and potentialities, and therefore best able to plan for their common welfare. |
Centralizes the major part of economic planning in the hands of huge, transnational corporations. |
Planning is highly centralized and controlled by the state. |
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LABOUR |
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Enterprise system based on worker participation in decision making and cooperative ownership of assets – conditions which increase motivation and enhance possibilities for personal fulfilment. |
Workers are alienated due to lack of ownership or control of their workplace. |
Workers are alienated due to lack of ownership or control of their workplace. |
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ECONOMY |
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Seeks to increase consumer purchasing power and availability of consumer goods as the means for maintaining economic vitality and meeting people’s amenity needs. |
Profit motivated free market economy. |
Command economy steered by production quotas; state authorities and not markets regulate prices |
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PROUT |
Capitalism |
Communism / Socialism |
