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Dialectics Of Authoritarianism: Transition From The People To The Leader -Prabhat Patnaik

-TheCitizen.in

NEW DELHI: We are seeing in India at present a remarkable inversion of reason.

The more the common people suffer from the impact of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s demonetization, the more he is lauded for the “courage” shown by him in undertaking it.

An economic measure should be, and normally is, judged on the basis of how it benefits the people, and any measure that brings distress to the people is derided for that reason. What we find in the present case however is just the opposite: the more demonetization brings distress to the people, the more it is applauded for its wisdom and courage.

And this is done not just by the usual crop of dyed-in-the-wool reactionary BJP ideologues; it is done by many commentators, including by even a group of senior NRI academics who have argued in this fashion and thereby resorted to such an inversion of reason.

To be sure, if those who argue in this fashion had shown that demonetization would be beneficial in the long-run, and on that basis argued that the difficulties of the people would be only transitional, then there might have been some point to their encomiums for PM Modi. They could then argue with some justification that Modi had to be lauded for his courage in risking the people’s ire during this period of transition.

But none of the applauders of Modi’s “courage” have refuted, or even attempted to refute, the critics who have shown that demonetization cannot possibly achieve the goals that the government had mentioned in justification of it. The question of its being beneficial in the long-run therefore simply does not arise.

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