Re: capitalism is for everyone

["prakash chandrashekar" <prakash7uc@rediffmail.com>]

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When i talk of capitalism, i talk about property rights. I talk about
the right of no one to oust you fromn your home without paying you the
compensation you want. That is property rights. For better or worse, a
system of property rights respect has proven to be the best system for
outstanding development.

You talked about dam oustees. They get ousted by the STATE, not by
CAPITAL. If a capitalist had to build a dam in the narmada, he would
have to BUY away all of them. A business man cannot use force in a
truly  liberal setup. I understand that this might seem a little too
much idealism, but think about it - if you had to buy away all the land,
what kind of dam would you prefer - big or small? If you can force away
the people, then of course - BIG is the way to go. China is building
three gorges merrily. I can almost hear the chinese top brass say, "No
stinkin property rights for internal china, thats reserved for Special
Economic Zones like Shanghai and Shenzhen."

You wanted prevention, let me give you a SIMPLE solution, which because
it is simple, is radical as hell. Remove the power of the central
government and state government to tax the people. Let local
administrations collect tax. DEfine the property rights of the entire
country in a computerised fully accessible (to the public) database -
i.e. who owns what. Stripped of money, the centre will ahve to restrict
its operations to what its should be doing - military, courts and
foreign relations, perhaps currency, but more on that later.

Now people who want power and spot an opportunity in narmada, have to
buy the watershed from the people who own it. Thats available on the
Dbase. If they are not willing to sell - BAD LUCK ! You don't get your
power until you offer them a DEAL which appeals to them.
Trading value for value.
Presently, in a sceanrio bereft of law, it beocmes a free-for-all
depending on who is more powerful.

On Tue, 18 Dec 2001 Yogesh Upadhyay wrote :
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> IPI_Marker
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> Prakash,
> Thanks for the referen

>
> Well, when we are talikng about the people displaced by
> the dream
> project of Indian State, we are talking about people
> who would not be
> able even to prove their Indian citizenship; forget
> about the amendments
> in the laws concerning the Fundamental Right to
> Property because they
> all pertain to citizens of India. On even broader scale,
>  the state does
> not have a National Rehabilitation policy for these
> people.
>
> I dont intend to abhore free markets and capitalism.
> And that's been a
> problem with the obsessed lovers of capitalism and free
> markets. Any
> word about the illeffects of capitalism is construed as
> a communistic
> attitude. Think about it! Many of those hawkers are the
> same
> dams-oustees. We throw them out to the cities and then
> we come up with
> plans like Madhu Kishwar's (at least somebody did
> something for them).
> Right, they have their living now but then we good
> citizens (we have
> ration cards, Sire!) curse them for creating menace in
> our towns,
> co-operative societies, roads etc. We complain and
> since we are
> influential (at least more than them), we force
> administration to take
> care of the menace. So, what is done to them? Bulldoze
> their dwellings.
> (And there is lot of money there!). Now, we are happy
> and we are going
> to vote that MLA. He did a lot of cleaning work.
>
> License-raj is a baby of our constitution. Of course,
> the solution lies
> in cleaning up the politics and bureaucracy; but it
> seems like it's a
> task as difficult as straightening a dog's tail. So, we
> liberalize the
> economy, privatize the public units invite foreign
> investments. They
> have been good managers and we are happy in our sweet
> oblivion. After
> all, we have been conditioned to live like that for 300
> years and 50+
> years have just not been sufficinet for us to learn
> anything. The work
> of the likes of Madhu Kishwar is a treatment (not a
> cure) but I am
> t
dhyay


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