shackle. Wars and violence are started because of this insistence. Vinoba has in his pithy style put it in Hindi in a very beautiful way. He says itis a difference between ‘my only’ and ‘and my also’. It comes expressively in Hindi as Hi (€t) and Bhi ($f). Once you adopt an attitude that it is not my way that is the only true way but my way is also a true way, then disputes remain at oral level. They do not become bitter. One's attitude changes.
That all problems of the world are in economic inequality is a basic faith of Communists. Their analysis is based on economic disparities and its removal. Karl Marx divided the world in two compartments of ‘Haves’ and ‘Have-nots’. His analysis and perception of the world was based on his observations about social situation existing between 1850 and 1890 in Britain and other European states. Even this concept of Nation came into being only in the 17" and 18 centuries. These states were eager to extend their influence and economic empire in the world. They had colonized Americas. To have monopoly in Trade the political power was acquired in many countries in the Eastern hemisphere. So far as India was concerned the hereditary landlords joined hands with local rulers in Asia who were bringing in wealth from the colonies and became the class of owners (haves) and all others as a class of have-nots. This was a social scenario witnessed by Marx. The main problem was how to divide the cake of inherited wealth and the looted-cake from the colonies. His theory or economic ideas therefore concentrated on division of cake and not on making of cake. That the size of the cake need not be assumed to be constant is not factored into his thinking. First country which benefitted from the Industrial Revolution was Britain. It needed free trade to operate and monopoly in the market for its goods. Britain acquired captive market from its imperial control over large parts of the world.
Idea of Scientific Socialism or Communism is based on social reality as it obtained in Britain and on the division of society into Haves and Have-nots. Perceptions of Marx on social reality in Britain and the world during the Nineteenth century were: ‘Workers of the World Unite you have nothing to lose but your chains’, and worker as a class has no conflict with workers of any other State, the geographical boundaries are
Hise by the imperialist states in order to benefit from looting by the traders.
____ In India between 1950 and 1980 Rulers enacted laws followed political Practices and pursued economic policies on the basis of this Marxist thought. There was a clear assumption of division of Society into Haves and Have-nots. Therefore laws were enacted on the basis of class- conflict and assuming all Employers as Haves and All labour as have-nots and therefore anticipating the inevitability of class-conflict. The corolla was Disputes as a basis of Society rather than the Harmony. There re
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