The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c11.s5.34

c11.s5.34

The economic planning of today is a very complicated affair. In spite of the differences in methods and tactics between Bolshevism, Fascism, Nationalsocialism, Anglo-American liberalism and Japanese "paternalism" the capitalists and employers in each and every region have come under the sway of one or other brand of socialism or communism embodied as it is in trade unions and other labour institutions. The world is witnessing everywhere a peculiarly new socio-economic *Gestalt*, configuration, or form-totality in which capitalism happens to be multiplied or modified and moderated by socialism. The systems of today may be described as belonging to neo-capitalism. On the other hand, the technocratic revolutions and rationalizations have served to initiate and promote centralization and administrative unification of the highest order. It is this "neo-capitalistic" centralization that furnishes the fundamental logic of planned economy in the post-war world. To attempt to think of or even insinuate such a technique while in the atmosphere of Kauṭalya would be as unhistorical and unscientific as to do so in the perspective of Diocletian or Louis XIV.