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Prabhat Patnaik
A Left Approach to Development
Against the “means-based approach” to development that the bourgeoisie projects, the left must project a “rights-based approach”. Since “rights” are guarantors of welfare gains, every winning of rights likewise strengthens them. The acquisition of rights on the part of the people, including rights to minimum bundles of goods, services and security, amounts therefore to winning crucial battles in the class war for the transcendence of capitalism. If the left were to put on its agenda a struggle for people’s rights and adopt a rights-based approach to development as opposed to the means-based approach of the bourgeois formations, it would not constitute a retreat into abstract humanism but would be an integral part of the dialectics of subversion of the logic of capital. Prabhat Patnaik writes in the Economic and Political Weekly
Re-envisioning Socialism
The quest for human freedom requires a transcendence of capitalism. What is important, however, is the overall vision that we have of the socialism that will emerge, one which accords centrality to human freedom, which remains continuously “open” and untainted by ossification in any form, and which constitutes an unleashing of democracy and a perennial engagement of the people with politics.
The article, originally published in the Economic and Political Weekly is attached along with this post.
On Democratic Centralism: The Debate
Is the practice and principle of "Democratic Centralism" to organise a communist party, relevant anymore to today's times? What does the practice entail? Is it necessary to modify the principle and practice? Or as some claim, to do away with it? Or indeed to persist with it?
Prakash Karat, general secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) answers critiques of the principle, written as part of various articles on broad issues by eminent thinkers - Javeed Alam, Prabir Purkayastha and Prabhat Patnaik. All the articles are posted here.
The Choice before the Maoists
Underneath the veneer of ''Maoism'' we are witnessing a particularly vicious form of ''identity politics'', writes eminent Marxist intellectual, Prabhat Patnaik
Sixty-Five Years After the Defeat of Fascism
"History no doubt does not repeat itself with any predictable monotony, but it would be a mistake not to see certain chilling similarities between the 1930s and now".Eminent economist Prabhat Patnaik writes. Article courtesy: www.networkideas.org
The Public and the Private
"The entire period of the agrarian crisis has been marked by an enormous wave of peasant suicides rather than peasant struggles. Of course, protest movements are there, but they no longer acquire, or even threaten to acquire, the dimensions that such movements used to acquire in the past. The question that obviously arises is: why this difference?" asks eminent Marxist, Professor Prabhat Patnaik, who then goes on to answer the question
SOCIALISM AND WELFARISM
Prof.Prabhat Patnaik lucidly explains the dialectical relationship between 'Socialism' and Welfarism' and argues for the necessity of 'political intervention' of the left in welfare measures for the transformation of people from 'Objects' to 'Subjects'.
A Perspective on the Growth Process in India and China
In critique of the current growth process being experienced in India and China where inequalities have increased dramatically despite extraordinarily high growth rates, this paper argues that an increase in inequality is built into the dynamics of the system through the non-using up of their “labour reserves”.
The Paradox of Capitalism
J0hn Maynard Keynes, though bourgeois in his outlook, was a remarkably insightful economist, whose book Economic Consequences of the Peace was copiously quoted by Lenin at the Second Congress of the Communist International to argue that conditions had ripened for the world revolution. But even Keynes’ insights could not fully comprehend the paradox that is capitalism.
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