India Needs Socialism

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The Indian economy is an interesting thing on one side we see Middle aged men in Imported Cars , Tall buildings with luxury apartments , five star hotels and clubs full of people spending thousands and posh luxury office’s It feels like money just spills out of the pockets of the rich to make this capitalist utopia of the few . We also see slums , factories with horrible workings conditions , Beggars and rag pickers on the roads living on less than the bare minimum needed to survive .When I was 12 years old I saw a women feeding her child of a trash can and in my hand was a burger from a fancy American fast food joint . I still think of that day and I don't feel lucky but guilty .

If you wanted me to write this essay on “The glorious Indian economy” than don't bother to read ahead . The economy is not only a system where the factors of production come together in the process of production ,consumption and distribution but it is a story . This particular story tells us , about the lives of the people living under this system and what do they do to survive . When I see this country and its economy , I see a great divide between the rich and the poor,the weak and the strong, the lucky and the unlucky and the oppressor and the oppressed . On one side we see workers,farmers,peasants and landless workers who work hard just to survive and on the other side, we see rich capitalists who just manipulate the markets to fill their pockets with money that they never toiled for . In this country the working man is poor and the gambling man is rich .The working man has laid the railroads , Built the buildings , Mined the mines and yet he stands hungry staring at what he has built . This Country has millionaires who are bus...

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...list mode of production gives opportunity only to the rich and not the talented . The question arises how can we change these miserable economic conditions which are faced by the immense majority . In order to end this we need to topple this social order in favor of a more just and fair system . We need to redistribute the wealth of society equally so that every man can live a life of dignity . In order to do that and improve the working conditions of the workingman the following must be done :

1) Nationalization of all industries

2) Abolition of private property

3) Abolition of all rights of inheritance

4) Abolition of towns and cities by an equal distribution

5) Abolition of the state in favor of anarchist-syndicalism

6) A heavy and progressive income tax

7) The creation of huge self governed industrial armies

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