Poverty

Poverty is not a natural human state. It is purely political. Political doctrines as such, and misplaced, misconstrued doctrines in particular, and doctrines with the hidden design for domination drive people to poverty. In India, over centuries generations of people lost what could have been the life of prosperity and happiness. The sheer prolonged deprivation made them see virtue in poverty and hunger. They made a religion of non-possession. Nothing can be more tragic than this but it remains a state of wrongful politics. 

Niraj Kumar Jha 

On the Prevalence of Poverty

What does the persistence of poverty in the country prove? They have ceaselessly been launching repackaged anti-poverty programmes since the very beginning and till 1991 they experimented with all the tools of socialism and despite that a very substantial number of people in India still suffer conditions which are horrendously subhuman. Persistence of poverty in a society is the sure sign of the prevalence of feudalism informing the operating philosophy and practices. Logic is very simple and faultless - if there is poverty, there must be feudalism. The mooring and make of all the policies is essentially feudal. They basically follow the policy of patron-client relationship in beguiling disguises. Leftism lifts feudalism from the grounds to the lofty heights of nation-state. In other words, leftism nationalises feudalism. Leftists are on their way out but we have to fight a long battle against leftism. We urgently need to upgrade our systems to the full fledged market economy. We must realise that there is no escape from this binary - feudal fiefdom or free market.

- Niraj Kumar Jha