Vaishali Institute Research Bulletin 1

Author(s): Nathmal Tatia
Publisher: Research Institute of Prakrit Jainology & Ahimsa Mujjaffarpur

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VAISHALÍ INSTITUTÉ RÉSEARCH BULLETIN NO. I
of economic interests combined with the ideological dogmatism has made the confusion worse confounded. Jawaharlal Nehru evolved the formula of co-existence as the guiding principle of international politics. But unfortunately his doctrine of Pañcasila did not cut ice with the other nations. This spirit of mutual concession and accommodation can have a chance of playing an effective role if the superpowers, Russia, America and China see their way to accept it as the guiding policy.
It may be thought that we are uttering a platitude or expressing a pious wish. It is a counsel of perfection which has no being translated into actual practice. But with due deference to this assessment of practical politicians we may observe that we cannot lower our ideal. The ideal always outstrips the actual. But if it is uppermost in the mind of lead and light it lets loose a power to raise the level of communal morality What was thought to be an impracticable phantasy has been realized in concrete experience. Nobody could think in the past of the latest inventions in science and technology such as aeroplanes, rockets and atom bombs, etc., as practical propositions So also in the morality of international politics have occurred momentous changes. The bombing of civil population shocks our conscience and this exercises a restraining influence on the conduct of wanton warfare. In the present-day world situation, ideology plays not an inconsiderable part in the framing of policies of notions. There is a tug of war between socialism and democracy. Thus conflict derives its sanction from the economic conditions of nations. To the poor man, the unemployed educated youth, and persons su ffering from frustration due to relegation of merit in the interest of party politics, the word
socialism' has an irresistible appeal. It is believed that socialism will usher in the millennium. Democracy also professes to afford equality of opportunity to all, Democracy favours freedom of speech and criticism whereas socialism tends to culminate in dictatorship which will not hesitate to use individuals as tools in the promotion of the welfare of the state. In communist countries violence is regarded as the legitimate means of achieving the goal. India is a poor country and is thus subject to all the evils that poverty brings in its train. What is matter of great concern is that the leaders of socialistic movements in India are in their speech and practice inciting the underprivileged people particularly agricultural labourers and workers in factories and mills to resort to violence. Democracy on the other hand is slow in its resolves and cautious in its policy. The so-called communist is noted for his fanaticism and his faith in the sacrosanct infallibility of the Marxist philosophy both in the national and international politics.