List of articles for ‘PROUT JOURNAL Spring 2002 Issue’ 
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Toward A New World Economic Order
After the demise of Soviet communism, President George Bush proclaimed the need for a new world order, with a planetary economy tied to free trade. This is just the wrong thing to do, for it will add to pollution without generating much new production. The global trading network today is guided by GATT [General Agreement [...]
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The Olympics and Cultural Hegemony
The Olympic Games are taken seriously by many countries. Aside from the economic sphere, it is another avenue for the West to display its “superiority” over the rest of the world. How is this achieved? Levi Obijiofor and Sohail Inayatullah take us into the hidden meanings of the world’s greatest sporting event By Levi Obijiofor [...]
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Constitutional proposals for Venezuela
INTRODUCTION Prout is the acronym for the Progressive Utilization Theory, a new socio-economic paradigm proposed by the late philosopher and spiritual master Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar. It proposes the maximum utilization and rational distribution of all physical, psychic and spiritual resources, for the dynamic progress and equilibrium for all beings. Political democracy requires a population that [...]
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Venezuela: Not a Banana-Oil Republic after All
The Counter-Coup It looks like Venezuela is not just another banana-oil republic after all. Many here feared that with the April 11 coup attempt against President Hugo Chavez, Venezuela was being degraded to being just another country that is forced to bend to the powerful will of the United States. The successful counter-coup of April [...]
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Real Men and the Economy: Florida orange growers reject employee subservience
Two ideological camps determined much of history last century—those who carried the banner of democratic freedoms and private enterprise, and those who sought control of the economy and society through central command structures. The former is known as Liberalism, the latter Communism. Little remains of the numerous conflicts between these two camps owing to the [...]
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Understanding Sarkar: The Indian Episteme, Macrohistory and Transformative Knowledge by Sohail Inayatullah, Brill, Boston, 2002, 366 pages, $53
Sohail Inayatullah takes us on a journey through Indian philosophy, grand theory and macrohistory. We understand and appreciate Indian cyclical and spiral theories of history, and their epistemological context. From other civilizations, we explore the stages and mechanisms of social change as developed by seminal thinkers such as Ssu-Ma Ch’ien, Ibn Khaldun, Giambattista Vico, George [...]
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Nature Therapy: Our Seven Friends
“Nature Cures–not the physician”–Hippocrates. The purpose of the entire creation is to get and give happiness. Ideally, there is no scope for any disease, pain and suffering, unless we disobey the laws of nature or ignore the body’s signs of distress. The fundamental law on which this physical and mental health depends, is a loving [...]
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Ethics, Food, and Spirituality
In my early 20s, I visited a slaughterhouse. Unlike most of my fellow agronomy students, I was not so excited about what I learned about modern butchery practices. Rather, I hought: “If I can walk through these halls of death and feel fine about what I see, I will continue to eat meat. If not, [...]
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New prospects for a post 9/11 world
“When a social wave loses its strength and cannot carry society forward, as it comes close to collapse, if a new wave could rise, it would create an epoch of fascinating transition.” -P.R. Sarkar Humanity is caught in a peculiar scenario. Immediately following the collapse of communist global forces more than a decade ago, First- [...]
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Popular Uprising in the Barrio’s of Argentina May Spell Hope for Argentinean Proutists
Argentina was the poster child of U.S.-sponsored globalization in the 1990’s. As Dani Rodrik pointed out in the New Republic, “The country undertook more trade liberalization, tax reform, privatization, and financial reform than virtually any other country in Latin America.” So why were finance minister Cavallo and president de la Ru’a forced out of office [...]