The loss of the BJP in overall Indian elections is a clear reflection that the people of India do not support religious extremism and racism. The fact that the communists have won in two large states only speaks to the reaction of the common people at being ignored by the central neoliberal, corporation-led government. Their basic human needs are ignored. But, communism has a brutal place in history. In no country did it solve the problems of the people. Rather it led to their greater impoverization. Russia and China are examples. Both models - the neoliberal and the communist - have failed the people in all countries of the world. PROUT is a new model based on economic democracy, economic decentralization, in which neither a party dictatorship nor ruthless corporate greed gets any scope to dominate. Shrii Sarkar has said, that capitalism turns men into beggars and communism turns beggars into beasts. Both lack a moral base. The stark attribute of capitalism is that it encourages individual human greed and selfishness. Communism contains no moral base to guide the people or the leaders. And in fact, as the article points out, even the so-called communists in Kerala are in an unholy aliance with the corporations and are pushing neo-liberalism, which only further destroys the lives of the common people. Societies must have cardinal human principles that serve as guide in the manner in which policies are carried out. Without these fundamental values of morality, no economic model can succeed. PROUT puts maximum emphasis on these values as a prerequisite for the success of its economic model.
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