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Demise of the Planning Commission?
I read with interest the analysis made by Prabhat Patnaik in “End of the Planning Commission?” (EPW, 19 July 2014). Despite the striking dissimilarities between fascism and nazism of the 1930s and the current resurgent anti-democratic tendencies of finance capital, there is a marked similarity in how the spaces of counter-hegemony dissipate and the dominant ideology takes over a vast
majority of the unsuspecting masses.
I read with interest the analysis made by Prabhat Patnaik in “End of the Planning Commission?” (EPW, 19 July 2014). Despite the striking dissimilarities between fascism and nazism of the 1930s and the current resurgent anti-democratic tendencies of finance capital, there is a marked similarity in how the spaces of counter-hegemony dissipate and the dominant ideology takes over a vast
majority of the unsuspecting masses.
With the discredit of a massive nature in the immediately preceding period, the political and bureaucratic system has suffered and the lack of a credible alternative pushes these forces to power. There is a vacuum of an alternative opposition which can convincingly present the electorate with a set of policies which can work on the ground.
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