Untrammaled globalisation has to be stopped.. whether that necessarily imply trade restrictions is context sensitive... As former IAS officer Gulzar Natarajan in his recent blog argued that this " liberal" orthodoxy has gone too far.. and has to be reined on..
I want to say something about 231 episode " election season & no shortage of bad ideas" in the vein of fiscal hawk..
With due respect... those "bad ideas" are life-like for 80% of indian populace ..itself is indictment of 1990 "reform" ... those much small money per head that will decide electoral success of World's largest democracy. ... it is shame of its economy... and economy is bad shape not just becuse politicians are taking it in bad direction , but also becuse there are some fundamental questions which Indian Liberal establishment does not wish to confront...
Fist is Land redistribution...which created in east asian economy ...created sustained aggregate demand for its industrialisation... india instead is still under the grip of Feudalism...
Of course " economic liberals" of india will never indict Neheruvian socialism for its faliure to do land reform and start new conversation for land redistribution... because they will be first casualty of them.... so talk against " bad fiscal ideas"/ " trade ideas"... not for land question...
This is no surprise, because liberal establishment of india subset of Indian salaried aristocrats who are triple beneficiaries of Caste system , Neheruvian socialism and 1990's aristocratic revolution... explained below...
1. Caste system: these twice-born group of salaried aristocrats are product of centuries of monopolies of feudal and scribal heritage..
2. Neheruvian socialism: (a) Neheruvian subsidisation of higher education and apathy to primary education , successfully exploited by the same group ,(b) as public sector employees of socialistic state and " trickle upwards " of govt schemes, (c) this same group is also landed gentry( bullock capitalist) who successfully sabotaged land reform projects..
3. 1990's aristocratic revolution: with this huge amount of " primitive capital".. they successfully emerged as clear winner of 90's " reform"
This same group now " new elites " who despise " freebies" and " reservation" ...
Subset of this group are "policy liberals" who never reflect on society ( despite claiming "societarians" )..gives intellectual justification of such " freebies and merit" narratives. But never will talk about Land Redistribution..
This "policy liberals" are certainly not votaries of " Liberalism", an emancipatory philosophy which fights with society to emancipate individuals from feudalism.. LIBERALISM EMERGED IN WEST TO DISMANTLE ANCIEN REGIME OF FEUDAL REGIME..
That is why very product Indian feudalism..that is Indian " policy liberals" can never be liberals nor be utilitarians...they will remain as " futulitarians"...
I just hope, a third democratic upsurge will happens ( as Yogendra yadav explained 2 democratic upsurges) by fighting this last vestiges of feudalism. Then can we have Liberalism and Utilitarianism..
Untrammaled globalisation has to be stopped.. whether that necessarily imply trade restrictions is context sensitive... As former IAS officer Gulzar Natarajan in his recent blog argued that this " liberal" orthodoxy has gone too far.. and has to be reined on..
I want to say something about 231 episode " election season & no shortage of bad ideas" in the vein of fiscal hawk..
With due respect... those "bad ideas" are life-like for 80% of indian populace ..itself is indictment of 1990 "reform" ... those much small money per head that will decide electoral success of World's largest democracy. ... it is shame of its economy... and economy is bad shape not just becuse politicians are taking it in bad direction , but also becuse there are some fundamental questions which Indian Liberal establishment does not wish to confront...
Fist is Land redistribution...which created in east asian economy ...created sustained aggregate demand for its industrialisation... india instead is still under the grip of Feudalism...
Of course " economic liberals" of india will never indict Neheruvian socialism for its faliure to do land reform and start new conversation for land redistribution... because they will be first casualty of them.... so talk against " bad fiscal ideas"/ " trade ideas"... not for land question...
This is no surprise, because liberal establishment of india subset of Indian salaried aristocrats who are triple beneficiaries of Caste system , Neheruvian socialism and 1990's aristocratic revolution... explained below...
1. Caste system: these twice-born group of salaried aristocrats are product of centuries of monopolies of feudal and scribal heritage..
2. Neheruvian socialism: (a) Neheruvian subsidisation of higher education and apathy to primary education , successfully exploited by the same group ,(b) as public sector employees of socialistic state and " trickle upwards " of govt schemes, (c) this same group is also landed gentry( bullock capitalist) who successfully sabotaged land reform projects..
3. 1990's aristocratic revolution: with this huge amount of " primitive capital".. they successfully emerged as clear winner of 90's " reform"
This same group now " new elites " who despise " freebies" and " reservation" ...
Subset of this group are "policy liberals" who never reflect on society ( despite claiming "societarians" )..gives intellectual justification of such " freebies and merit" narratives. But never will talk about Land Redistribution..
This "policy liberals" are certainly not votaries of " Liberalism", an emancipatory philosophy which fights with society to emancipate individuals from feudalism.. LIBERALISM EMERGED IN WEST TO DISMANTLE ANCIEN REGIME OF FEUDAL REGIME..
That is why very product Indian feudalism..that is Indian " policy liberals" can never be liberals nor be utilitarians...they will remain as " futulitarians"...
I just hope, a third democratic upsurge will happens ( as Yogendra yadav explained 2 democratic upsurges) by fighting this last vestiges of feudalism. Then can we have Liberalism and Utilitarianism..