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All good arguments, except till you realize that
majority of indians were poor even before
--- "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com> wrote:
> In a classic case of deflecting blame for their own
> politicians in India have identified the size of the
> country's biggest problem. This position was stated
> parliamentary resolution passed on the 50th
> Half a decade later, it is a belief that still
> is hard to imagine a more cynical view. If left free
> interference of various levels of government, the
> the Indian people could soon allow them to be among
> Indians are not poor because there are too many of
> because there are too many regulations and too much
> -- even today, a decade after reforms were begun.
> arise from a political culture guided by socialist
> hand and an imbedded legal obligation on the other
> While India's political culture reflects the beliefs
> fathers, there is the additional matter of the
> constitution that specifies: "India is a sovereign,
> republic." It was Indira Gandhi who had the words
> added in the late 1970s. At the same time, she also
> section in the Representation of Peoples Act to
> and registered parties swear by this preamble. Since
> for socialism, no party espouses classical
> While one can appreciate the difficulty of
> honored lineage, the fact that socialism has been
> abandoned in most places should prompt Indians to
> commitment. Despite evidence of its failure as an
> the socialists who carry on do so by trying to
> reinforces certain civic virtues. A presumed merit
> aims to nurture a greater sense of collective
> narrow self-interest of individuals. However, this
> at the heart of its failure both as a political tool
> Let's start with the economic failures of socialism.
> experiments have been ignominiously abandoned or
> such as the "Third Way" that defer to the importance
> individual incentives. Unfortunately, it took a
> suffering before socialists abandoned their goal of
> economic system on the basis of collective goals.
> Socialist ideologues are impervious to evidence that
> even more human misery in the civic realm. This is
> provides the political mechanism for and legitimacy
> identify as members of groups. While it may suit the
> create them-and-us scenarios relating to workers and
> peasants and urban dwellers, this logic is readily
> In the case of India, competition for power has
> identified with religiosity or ethnicity, as is
> Bharatiya Janata Party, supported by radical
> elsewhere, political parties based on religion are
> exclusionary. These narrow concepts of identity work
> building since such a politics forces arrangements
> Socialism also sets the stage for populist promises
> group to support another. This variety of political
> Congress Party was used to build a coalition of
> turn, the BJP built its power base on a promise to
> And so it is that India's heritage of socialist
> beginnings of a political culture that evolved into
> has wrought cycles of communal violence. Populism
> political patronage, whether based upon nationalism
> also open to the sort of rampant corruption so
> At issue in India is nothing less than the role of
> used as a mechanism to protect the freedom and
> should the state be a vehicle for groups to gain
> the latter approach would lead to the destruction of
> while the former will allow it to survive.
> It is undeniable that India's public policy guided
> promoted divisions that contributed to social
> destruction. This dangerous game has only served the
> those who seek to capture or preserve power. That
> state, specified in a preamble to the constitution,
> commitment evident in the nature of interventionist
> wrought slower economic growth causing great harm to
> who have lost access to economic opportunities.
> forces that are destroying India's hard-earned
> in the nature of Indian politics is needed so the
> mechanism for groups to gain power and instead
> secure rights and freedoms for individuals.
> Mr. Lingle is professor of economics at Universidad
> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation
> "... however it may deserve respect for its
> [predicting the end of the world] has not been found
> experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of