"Economists have only interpreted Property, in various ways;The point, however, is utilization - Progressive Utilization."
The Agricultural age, commencing around ten thousand years ago, afforded the support to leisured classes for the birth of various civilizations. The industrial age began with the invention of the steam engine less than three hundred years ago. Intellectuality has grown in leaps and bounds, bringing us to the threshold of Artificial Intelligence' - exceeding the processing power of a human brain, and shortly, even the combined processing power of entire humanity, connected as never before in history.
Property and Borders:
Today, the Propreitarian economies - Private, State and their Hybrids - and politics of Borders in governance are challenged, as never before. Economists have only interpreted Property in various ways; The point, however, is utilization - Progressive Utilisation. That is progressive utilization of all kinds of resources - material, metaphysical, and spiritual - for the welfare of all living beings. Pandemics, Climate change, Nuclear war and Technology disruption - global in impact disrupt the nations all over the Borders warranting a world governance structure.
Cosmic Inheritance:
Staticity of Wealth and Inequality
The accumulation of wealth and the resultant staticity in the utilization of available resources drive up inequality. The obsession with the propreitarian concerns - of the private Corporatist in capitalism, and the Party bureaucrat in communism, has led to the accumulation of available resources and consequent economic staticity. In either case, propreitarian fundamentalism is a dogma. No one brings anything with him at the time of birth, nor takes away anything with him at death. Human-made institutions right to accumulate and cause staticity is also a dogma. The dogmas of Property has caused considerable poverty amidst luxury in both the liberal and socialist; wealthy and underdeveloped; resource-rich and resource-poor nations.
The Soviet Union wedded to Communist propreitarian dogma collapsed after seven decades (1917- 1987), ending its pole position as an Ideology. Similarly, the monetary capitalist propreitarian dogma followed it, collapsing in the 2008 Recession. Today globally, the governments following these dogmas are struggling to survive both the Health and Economic pandemics.
Visionary Shrii P R Sarkar has conceptualized the Progressive Utilization of all kinds of resources privileging Utilization over Ownership for the welfare of all living beings, also encompassing bio-psychology and psychology resources. Thomas Piketty, the French economist and author of Capital and Ideology 2019, and others argue for adopting the concept of 'Social Property' for humanity's holistic welfare.
Samaj: Re-Districting the World
"Samaj is not a mere slice of the biosphere but organic entity of living history of beautiful multi-dimensional culture, at once unique as well as universal."
The design of the socio-economy should guarantee legislation of equal opportunity, and Institutions should help so that every individual and community are enabled to realize the human' - physical, psychic and spiritual; as well as, the Common material, metaphysical [linguistic, cultural] potentials, of a bioregion or Samaj. Prout advocates, governance structure of self-reliant, socio-economic units or Samajas. A Samaj is configured, to optimize socio-economic and positive sentimental energy of the Samaj, for equitable development' - unencumbered by trans-samaj imperialism and exploitation; and globally, federal, representative bi-cameral, world governance structure to resolve, planetary issues.
The socio-economic groupification or Samajas "should be formed on the basis of factors like common economic problems, uniform economic resources and potentialities, ethnic similarities, common geographical features, and the sentimental legacy of the people, which arises out of common socio-cultural ties like language, cultural traits, etc," (Shri P R Sarkar). Thus, Samaj is not a mere slice of the biosphere but an organic entity of living history of beautiful multi-dimensional culture, at once unique as well as universal. As a natural configuration of all inherent physical and metaphysical potentials, Samaj will optimize the socio-economic and positive sentimental energy, of the individual and society, for the welfare of all. Prout envisages 44 Samajas for India (Annexure) and 200 more of the rest of the world, also famous as bioregions.
Samaj is strategic - not set in stone. When contiguous samajas reach a level of parity, and issues of imperial impulses, of stronger Samaj, exploiting the weaker Samaj become redundant, they will merge as one unit. Progressively, the process will accelerate, and entire human society will journey, in the future, from Samajas to Nations to Continents to One world.
Path of Bliss:
The Matter and Idea are metamorphosed expressions [sagun brahma] of the non-qualified consciousness [nirgun brahma], pure bliss or Ananda. Humans with a developed mind seek infinite happiness, unlike the rest of the species, in the biosphere. The failure of the materialist design of economy and society is in the inability in recognizing invariable satisfaction of the basic essential needs of all. Therefore, individuals and society should cultivate and seek infinite happiness in the subtler psychic and spiritual realms [culture, sport, meditation and mysticism], which are unlimited. It is the only approach that will usher in conflict-free communities by providing infinite sustenance to individuals and community for their fulfilment and happiness, that is, Asti [existence], Bhati [expansion] and Anandam [bliss].
Dual Citizenship: Local & Global
Hararme Pita; Gaori MataSwadesha Bhuvana Trayam
Hara is the father, Gauri (Prakriti) is the mother and the universe of three worlds' - Physical, Psychic and spiritual, is our motherland. Prout offers, humans, dual citizenship, that is, global citizenship, relative to the infinite psychic/cultural and spiritual resources and another, that is, the samaj citizenship of privilege over finite, physical and metaphysical (linguistic and cultural) resources, in the Samaj of his option or nativity. None will be tagged as a foreigner as Global citizenship is a universal fundamental Right.
An individual who merges his economic interests with the economic interests of the Samaj or bioregion qualifies for citizenship rights, in the said Samaj, without any discrimination. In other words, in the material or physical realm of finite resources, while there is a regulation on an accumulation of wealth, to not deprive others of opportunities, there will be complete, unrestricted freedom, in the realms of infinite resources' - psychic and spiritual.
New Economy of 21st Century:
"Prout challenges the current corporatist model, focusing instead on the cooperative model (along with private and small scale enterprises and state-run public utilities). A Proutist society provides a safety net, with incentives for enterprise volunteerism and innovation. Wealth increases are linked, so that the minimum rises with the maximum ... Prout seeks a third way, progressing beyond communist and capitalist models of ownership and resolving the dichotomy of global and local. In this schema economic units [samajas] are in the first place local but, of course, become increasingly global…" [Sohail Inayatullah: Prout in Power].
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it." - Karl Marx
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways;
the point, however, is to change it." - Karl Marx
Towards Self-Reliant Samajas:
The de-globalization of the economy that began with the 2008 recession is moving from global to national, regional, local, and virtual. Trade as % of global GDP rose from 30 in 1970 to 60 in 2008, marking the period of globalization; de-globalization, which set in from 2008, saw Trade decline to 53% by 2020. Post-covid, the trend will be amplified. Food trade suspension by Russia, Kazakhstan, Vietnam, Ukraine and India, indicate the reversal of the movement of global interdependence to national self-reliance or food nationalism. Prout stands for food-samajism, followed by food-nationalism.
Food Samajism:
The recent three Farm Bills are standard recommendations of the World Bank/IMF. Earlier, many countries, especially China, enormously benefited from globalization from the 1970s' to 2008, when it came to an end. When the de-globalization has set in, these Farm Bills are late by five decades for India and have come with the expiry year of 2008.
There are no two opinions about the need for Farm sector Reforms. Prout's view is that each Samaj should follow the principle and plan of local Production for local consumption. There will be large-scale cooperatives for everything from inputs, operations, processing, storage and marketing of agricultural produce within the fenced-in Samaj. Each Samaj deserves its own Food Corporation. The Reforms would address the issues of Atmanirbhar Samaj, in the first place, as they are the building blocks of, self-reliant national economy. Otherwise, it is a recipe for trans-samaj exploitation, driven by corporate greed and their grip over the State.
One Samaj - One Market:
The new economy of Prout is Sharing economy of Commons focused on Progressive utilization and Rational distribution of all kinds of available resources for the welfare of all living beings. Cooperatives are in the spirit of 'coordinated cooperation' instead of 'subordinated cooperation' of enterprises. The power shift to elected members of workers and farmers will reconfigure the 21st-century economy for wholesome employment and life. Prout is a planned economy, and economic planning is part of the planned economy. Consumption drives Production, not profit. Each Samaj, relative to its physical resources and wealth, will be insulated from the exploitative transfer of wealth out of the Samaj. Primarily, local Production is for local consumption. After satisfying local needs, any surplus is not traded but bartered for goods not available locally.
To ensure the integrity of a samaj's symbiotic and circular economy and monitor leakage of wealth, each Samaj will have a distinct Cryptocurrency and a Central federal cooperative bank to manage the branches and their operations. Production will be close to the source of raw materials. Only processed goods declared as surplus is for barter with other samajas. It will ensure increasing purchasing capacity and employment within a samaj.
Thus, One Bioregion - One Market, Ek Samaj - Ek Bazaar, would pave the way to self-reliant Samajas in each country and the welfare of all living beings on Earth.
*Localise The Economy; Globalise Humanity*
Annexure
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