Capitalism: June 2004 Archives

The innate instincts of crude psychic propensities of human beings instigate them to accumulate and enjoy material objects in an unlimited manner. These psychic urges towards the acquisition of physical wealth are common to all living beings, but in human beings they are infinitely insatiable. Psychic pabula are nothing but these different psychic urges projected objectively.

Psychic Pabula and Capitalism
The impetus from crude psychic urges gave birth to capitalism. In capitalism the psychology of the acquisition of material wealth, be it land, money, metal or other property, strongly predominates. Such crude psychic urges and psychic pabula remain unchecked and unbridled in capitalism and turn into a hungry profit-motive in the market system. As a result, traders, industrialists and business people suffer from the psychic disease of accumulating more and more wealth by any means, even to the point of depriving other human beings of their basic requirements.

by Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar

Gandhaha'rin and Gandhaharinii
At the beginning of civilisation, at the dawn of the Vaedic age, the desire to create arts and crafts arose in the human mind. At that time, artisans used to work at home, and arts and crafts were produced in cottage industries. Men and women, boys and girls -- all participated in the creation of arts and crafts. Later, people realised that some arts and crafts could not be produced in every village, so certain artifacts were produced by a few combined villages. If artisans had not combined together, they would have suffered losses in the market place, and their numbers would have been significantly reduced. So, gradually human beings started to go and work in places where production was done collectively, or the first factories. At that time, the few industries that existed were decentralised.

by Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar (father of PROUT)

How was capitalism created? Capital is consumable commodities in their potentiality. Intelligent people collect more capital than others in the form of consumable goods, but since this capital cannot be stored for a long time, they began to keep it in the form of money. Such people are called capitalists. These capitalists are the unworthy sons and daughters of the Cosmic Father because they go against the principle of cosmic inheritance. They should be cured of their ailments. To fight capitalism is therefore within your goal. The seed of infinite expression lies within Dharma, but you must nourish it. Capitalists create hindrances on the path of human beings to prevent them from becoming one with the cosmos--to prevent them from becoming great. So capitalism is anti-Dharma and the actions of capitalists are also anti-Dharma.