{"id":2917,"date":"2008-01-04T12:03:29","date_gmt":"2008-01-04T06:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200801\/please-make-up-your-mind\/"},"modified":"2008-01-04T12:03:29","modified_gmt":"2008-01-04T06:33:29","slug":"please-make-up-your-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200801\/please-make-up-your-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Please Make Up Your Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee of West Bengal has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rediff.com\/news\/2008\/jan\/03nandi.htm\">declared<\/a>\u00a0 that Capitalism, though filthy, is the only way to industrialise his state because the government does not have resources to build steel plants.<\/p>\n<p>I wish people made up their minds about what does not have the resources to build steel plants. In Nehru&#8217;s time, they used to say that the government should build steel plants because the private sector would not have resources to do so.\u00a0 So they imposed capacity restrictions to stop private companies from building steel plants they did not have resources to build in the first place. Now, we are being told the opposite. I am, like totally confused.<\/p>\n<p>Now, of course Bhattacharjee, being a good Marxist, must believe that Communism is the last stage of human evolution and as a matter of historical inevitability, must necessarily be preceded by Capitalism. As India has not gone through a Capitalist stage yet, it is entirely possible that he believes that Communism cannot come to India yet. Some people\u00a0believe that Kalki will come on earth when the sins of Kali yuga burden Earth to her breaking point. Ergo, the way to hasten the arrival of Kalki is to sin so much that He is forced to incarnate. I shudder to think what will happen to Capitalism\u00a0in Bhattacharjee&#8217;s hands. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee of West Bengal has declared\u00a0 that Capitalism, though filthy, is the only way to industrialise his state because the government does not have resources to build steel plants. I wish people made up their minds about what does not have the resources to build steel plants. In Nehru&#8217;s time, they used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2917"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}