The Thievery Of The Congress, Exposed

I had planned to write a happy Sunday post on my hero, Adam Smith, but the widely reported statement made by our finance minister pranab baboo that his government will work to “strengthen PSUs” forced my hand.

[PSUs are Public Sector Units, the State-owned industrial sector, India’s “common loss.”]

Indeed, the language is telling: he dismissed reports on privatization, calling them “malicious propaganda.” He was speaking to a trade union audience. He has chosen his friends. We must know our enemies.

Recall that the Swatantra Party never had a trade union wing.

What kind of political party is the Congress, of which the minister is an old hand? Can this party ever “represent” the true interests of the “commonwealth”? At a time when serious law and order problems plague much of the vast territory, what is the “role of State” that this party upholds as its guiding philosophy? The USSR is history, but this party hangs on to failed Soviet-era thinking. I daresay India is doomed unless this party is unceremoniously ousted from power. They are the pits.

If their rank-and-file want to run industrial empires, they should approach the stock exchange, not the public treasury. It becomes obvious that, under the Congress, looters take charge of the public treasury. Their ideology is not “socialism,” for they never think of “society”; rather, their ideology is one of private gain at public cost. They cause the “common loss.”

The core belief of the Congress is that PSUs are “collective property.” Actually, this is the greatest fiction of socialist propaganda, for every PSU is very much the “private property” of client groups who run them, and exploit them, for their own benefit – like the trade unions, and the managers. Just as the minister’s bungalow in Lutyens’ Delhi is a piece of “collective property” that the minister is enjoying as his own – wee the sheeple cannot picnic on his lawns – so too with the PSUs. They are all “private property.” But acquired at public cost.

In other words, these properties have been illegally acquired. The public must re-acquire them, sell them off, and re-invest the money in roads – for roads are real collective property, which every citizen, and the visiting foreigner, can use for free. I am also a great fan of public parks in cities and towns – both the Mughals and the Brits loved them too – which also add to the common wealth of all citizens. We must have a clear idea on Property. The Congress and their professors have confused everything.

There is another story on the Congress today that shows what a bunch of hypocritical old farts these jackasses are: the party organ is carrying an editorial that advises the rank-and-file to avoid showing off their (ill-gotten) wealth. Of course, it must be hugely embarrassing for a gang of thieves when some members indiscreetly flaunt their takings.

In China, Deng said “to be rich is glorious.” He was referring to The Market, not the State-owned industrial sector.

What do we do? Since we are legally barred from setting up a free market party, I suggest we pick up guns and join the Maoists. They are sure to be lesser villains than the Congress. Manas Chakravarty has a nice column today on how he almost joined the Naxals while in college. Yes, they have all the pretty, idealistic girls on their side. They love smoking joints, and there is great mahua in the jungles. So I am cleaning my father’s old gun today and thinking of Orwell volunteering to fight in Catalonia.

Revolt!