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dormant, the social system, the economic system and governmental system function on the right lines. When these human characteristics become preponderant, all systems go awry. If the urge of a person who wields power is great, he becomes violent. He can become a Hitler or a Stalin and, for the enhancement of his empire, he can make use of horrifying destructive weapons. It is because of this reason that when we want a balanced economic system and an orderly world economic order, we have to deploy both dimensions – externally, the harmonisation of the system, and internally — the harmonisation or balancing of the emotions. This is never possible if we attend only to the external system. It could be set up today but after five or ten years when some powerful person emerges, he would dismantle it.
Change from Within The changes in the economic system which Marx and Keynes conceived were based only on the organisation of resources, production and exchange. No attention was paid to the change in man. That is why the system of Marx led to dictatorship which destroyed the entire system. The end-result of Keynesian system is that production is achieved more for the people but less for peace and satisfying hunger. If a considerable amount of effort had not been directed to destruction, the problem of poverty and unemployment would not have got aggravated.
The question then is: how is this possible? When man has the feelings of fear and urge for greed, these get extended into sovereignty and hatred. When there is the urge for considering oneself as superior to others, why would one bother about satisfying the hunger of the people. One would be keen only to build power. And the building up of power inevitably leads to destruction.
The Dreadful Mistake In re-examining the new economic organisation, we should rectify a mistake that we have been committing in the past, the mistake of focussing all our attention on the material system and external
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