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Essentially this amounts to inviting multinationals to cheaply buy off sick industries in
Asian countries. While this might supposedly sustain employment, it will result in
economic colonization and crippling of indigenous entrepreneurship as well as the
collapse of rural economic and cultural structure. This is especially the case in
countries with extreme corruption (like India and other developing nations of Asia,
Africa & South America) where all safeguards are flouted by politicians in return for
bribes, (not to mention their direct theft of aid money) generating a spiraling amount
of “black’ money. This is also an inherent instability associated with dependence on
multinationals based industrial development. When the market demand for their
products decreases due to over-saturation of the market, they lay off people in the
hundreds. Also when they find exploitative regimes where labour is cheaper, they
transfer their operation to the new locale without feeling any sense of responsibility
or remorse. The present Pacific-Asian economic crisis is merely one example of this.
The same scenario is repeated in the industrial heartland of America.
The correct approach would be to use IMF, World Bank or UNDP funds and/or loans
for development of rural communities and inner cities through local resource
development by the local people, if needs be with the assistance of experts from
outside. However it is certainly not wise to invite outside parties to come in and
divert profits outside. In general, it is PROUT policy in times of difficulty to try to
entirely trade on a barter basis. Our solution to this problem is grass roots
development in the form of cooperatives and master units to form self-reliant
communities by reaching out into and uniting the surrounding villages or
microcommunities. A master unit should comprise of small farms, a seed center,
primary healthcare centre, primary school, community centre (for social and spiritual
functions), small-scale enterprises (such as making clothes or solar heating units).
Essentially, a master unit is an implementation of what we have been describing to
be the extended role of cooperatives.
This is the mechanism of not merely self-reliant community development. This is the
way for the advancement of the human race to the spiritual realm, to cosmic
humanity. Thus cooperatives are the primary path (marga) on which humanity can
harmonize with this world in its quest for self-realization as Bliss (a’nanda) or the
Supreme Consciousness. It aims not merely to create one Vrinda’van (village
transformed by Lord Krishna’s charming presence into a sweet devotional
community), but to make every village a Vrindavan; not merely to create one
Vara’nasi (the first city in the world, created by Lord Shiva’s affectionate presence
into an intensely powerful spiritual centre), but to make every city into a Varanasi.
While some may merely hope for this, those devotees who are being blessed by the
rapturously tender presence of Lord Anandamurtiji know that this human community
will be blissfully transformed from a physical and psychic existence into a devotional
existence – a life immersed in our Beloved, in Supreme Consciousness.