Rule Indica, Indica Rule The Waves

It should come as no surprise that the head of the "freedom fighters' association" - those who fought for Independence from British rule - should publicly assert that "we were better off under the British." This is proof that socialism and the Total Chacha State have destroyed India.

Yet, we cannot go back to the Brits and ask them to return. After all, today, the Brits themselves are fed up of British rule! And why the Brits: if you read LewRockwell.com regularly, as I do, you will find that most Americans are fed up of American rule - the "welfare-warfare State."

So what do we do?

I suggest: Let us first think.

And to help you all think I have today another short essay by Ludwig von Mises titled "The Idea of Liberty is Western." This is very true. But the ideas of socialism and communism are also western. We adopted the wrong western ideas - and Mises quotes Professor Harold Laski of the LSE repeatedly. It was Laski who "poisoned the mind of the East with an anti-capitalist bias." (This fact about professors of the West was also discussed yesterday.) Laski trained each one of Chacha Nehru's lieutenants.

On the very western idea of socialism, Mises says something that we in India, especially our disillusioned "freedom fighters," must note:

No intelligent man could fail to recognize that what the socialists, communists, and planners were aiming at was the most radical abolition of the individual's freedom and the establishment of government omnipotence. Yet the immense majority of the socialist intellectuals were convinced that in fighting for socialism they were fighting for freedom.

We in India must now adopt the best idea of the West, one that the West has forgotten and abandoned: Liberty. Who knows, someday soon the Brits might well clamour for "Indian rule." Who knows, may be the people of the USSA will admire the "Indian model of Catallaxy." And the Chinese might then say that "India's Chairman is our Chairman."

Liberty!

What a sweet word.