Socialist forces in India prevented automation in industries and
mechanisation in agriculture. Everything became labor intensive.
--- On Tue, 3/9/10, ShempMcGurk <shempmcg...@netscape.net> wrote:
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Did you have this experience in India ? If so how
did it influence you ?
Date: Tuesday, March 9, 2010, 9:54 AM
...perhaps more in line with Gandhi than Guru Dev, but not Maharishi who in his
later years, like Gandhi, had a visceral reaction to democracy and
globalisation. Recall that Gandhi sentenced several generations of Indians to
dire poverty by his protectionist policies...that' s what that whole silly
spinning of cotton crap that he was engaged in was meant to do AND be symbolic
of: "we grow the cotton in India and we ship it off to England to be
manufactured! Well, we must do the whole vertical manufacturing here in India!
Grow, spin, manufacture, make into clothing", said the insane economist Gandhi.
And 10s of millions of Ambassador cars later that never worked properly and the
rest of the economy that were crippled by this policy and, finally, India is
getting out of the grip of that madness.
Raj Patel wants India to go back to that and so did Maharishi from what I could
tell.
