Capitalism and Communism and idol worship
Dharmadeva
`mental foods'. Communism and capitalism are essentially materialist
philosophies. Both encourage a psychology of material attachment, which in
turn encourages the pursuit of money, name, fame, etc. People living under
either of these two systems develop the psychic pabula which run after crude
physicalities. All these objective tendencies are the inevitable outcome of
the continuous extroversal movement of psychic urges, insatiably driving
themselves from one object to another. While running after such material
attachments, mind constantly creates objects in its objective chambers. All
these mental objects are mental foods and they are called psychic pabula.
Similarly, while engaged in physical or psycho-physical interactions,
mind thrives on these pabula. When it changes its outlook and goal, its
objects or pabula also change. So the human mind is continuously dragged in
thousands of directions, creating innumerable objects within itself. These
objects are nothing but psychic pabula--pabula are plural, always alluring
and always detracting. All these pabula grow out of psychic urges,
psycho-physical demands, the reactive momenta of the mind and objectified
environmental conditions.
A mind, driven by many psychic pabula, is the prisoner of innumerable
predicaments. In such a condition the human mind becomes extroversive,
multi-directional, weak and static. It is propelled by the principle of
selfish pleasure, which leads it down the path of counter-evolution. It
always adopts an analytical approach to life, never a synthetic one. As
people have to satisfy their unrestrained psychic pabula with limited
objects of wealth, they often create inter-personal and inter-group
conflicts. The collective psychology arising from many objectified human
minds gives rise to social inequality, economic exploitation, political
repression, religious bigotry, cultural perversion and the all-round
degradation of the individual and society. Crude psychic pabula cause the
degeneration of individual and collective mind at the same time, causing the
downfall of the society.
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is that they aim to guarantee the comprehensive, multifarious
liberation of humanity.' P R Sarkar
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