At a recent 'Meet the Press' programme in Kolkata Press Club, while answering a query of a journalist, Buddhadeb Bhattacharya (The Chief Minister of West Bengal, India) had said, 'I can't implement socialism. Socialism is impracticable. What I am doing here is just capitalism. I am trying to use capitalism in the interest of workers and common people (Bartaman, April13, 2006)." Much before this, however, Buddhadeb Babu had termed the day of his finalizing a business deal with the Salim group of Indonesia as the 'best day of his life'. It is clear that what he had stated at the 'Meet the Press' programme was not a surprise statement. It is also not to be believed that the C.P.I(M) as a party did not endorse his view. On the contrary, it is very likely that Buddhadeb Babu made this statement consciously as the spokesman of the party and with full knowledge of his party's viewpoint in this regard. Without mincing words, it can be said that this statement is an abject surrender of Marxism to opportunism. It needs to be pointed out that this surrender is not an isolated event. It is just a reflection, in the context of West Bengal, of surrender of Marxism to capitalism throughout the world.
PROUT: May 2006 Archives
"Sadvipras shall work for the good of all countries, for the all-round emancipation of all humanity."
The inevitable consequence of capitalist exploitation is proletariat revolution. When capitalists, maddened with excessive greed, lose their common sense completely and bid farewell to humanism totally, it is time for proletariat revolution to burst forth. But it will be futile to expect it just because of the ripe time. For this, conditions relating to place and person are also largely responsible.
From the economic standpoint, where there exists two classes - the exploiting capitalists and exploited proletariat - revolution takes place at such a time indeed, but at such a time if there be no intellectuals and fighters, from the mental standpoint, or in other words if people are proletarian economically but not intellectuals or fighters mentally, proletariat revolution is not possible. Those that are mentally proletarians are not capable of bringing about revolution. They are battle-shy. They are the playthings of the capitalists. During the hey-day of the capitalist era, capitalists easily kept in their clutches such proletarian-minded workers. Nay, even the martial-minded or intellectual workers, if they are not spirited enough, get themselves sold to the capitalists. Therefore, eventually, proletariat revolution has to depend on those workers who are sufficiently spirited and who are mentally intellectual or fighters. Without taking into account the mental cast, those who want to bring about the revolution of the proletariat only with the help of the working class, will come a cropper.
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As you know, physical pabulum is limited, so the mind continually runs from one thing to another. This process goes on in a never-ending order. But in the realm of intuition the goal is infinite. When aspirants come into this realm, their desires, their longings, are fully satisfied. Thus the controlling point is the spiritual order. Because the spiritual order is infinite, human beings have no control over it, but as the physical realm is finite, human beings can increase their sphere of activity in this realm. The attempt to do this is a never-ending process, and there are infinite permutations and combinations in this endeavor, but the latent hunger in human beings will never be satisfied in this realm. The quest to satisfy this hunger can at best only lead to the threshold point of spirituality. As human beings progress towards the realm of spirituality, they are helped on the one hand by Prout, which guarantees minimum requirements and maximum amenities, and on the other hand by neo-humanistic outlook, which removes disparities. These two approaches help human beings in their progress and elevation. Finally the existential faculty merges in the Supreme.
