“Capitalism and communism stand at opposite poles. Their essential difference is this: The communist, seeing the rich man and his fine home, says: ‘No man should have so much.’ The capitalist, seeing the same thing, says: ‘All men should have so much.’”
Both India and China want to become great powers, but there ends the similarities between them.
In India it is a people’s movement, where as in China it is a people’s party’s movement 
In India, the citizens are bringing about the change, while in China the government is in charge of the change.
So, development is more of a prestige issue in China, than the well being of its people. Millions massacred by the communist movement, and still counting , the Chinese Red Party wants to be in control of everything, not just within China, but if possible all over the world.
They want to be numero uno in every field: olympics, military, buildings, fastest train, largest airport, all the biggest, largest, longest, entries in the general knowledge books should belong to the Chinese, no matter what it takes.
But sometimes they forget that all it takes is a bit of commonsense!
Look at this news report . Chinese authorities had arranged for a complete Trip to China package for the Nobel Prize jurors (judges) from the medicine, physics and chemistry committees of the Nobel prize! It is said that the Chinese authorities paid for their plane tickets, hotels and meals!
What for? Well, the Chinese wanted the judges of the Nobel prize committees to, “explain the selection process and what it takes to win a Nobel Prize”!!!
Well, isn’t it a primary school knowledge all over the world that outstanding research work, inventions and discoveries in the respective fields will help one get the Nobel prize?
Or is it that the Communist stalwarts of China wanted to groom scientists who will conduct research only on those specific topics for which there is a potential to earn a Nobel prize? Say for instance, asking a Chinese scientist to create stable worm holes?
Or is it that they wanted to check if any political science could be applied to grab the most prestigious basic sciences prize?
All’s well that gets Nobel 
Most people who read “The Communist Manifesto” probably have no idea that it was written by a couple of young men who had never worked a day in their lives, and who nevertheless spoke boldly in the name of “the workers”.
- Thomas Sowell
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Hi i am regular reader of your website and all the articles are really great and informative.
Regarding the above mentioned article i presume that u r not only against China but against communist ideologies too. China and USSR are the nations who started out as communist countries but later the excessive powers corrupted them. China as a country has long swayed away from communist ideologies. Snatching away land from common people to make way for cooperate buildings is definitely not a communist philosophy.
As for the beginning quote by Phelps adams it is the voice of the capitalist american, nothing much.
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Thank you very much for liking the articles Ashwin.
Well, I am a pro-capitalist and I believe capitalism with a blend of socialism is the way forward for a bright future. Communism kills competition, reduces innovation, makes people inertial, and is against the law of the nature where the best talent should get the best luxury of life. In nature there is no law where both weak and strong get equal share, its the rule of survival which in successive generations creates more stable and more competetive species. Communism by saying all should get equal is against the very law of nature. Why will a person use more brain, spend more energy and innovate when the benefits are equal.
What is required is a capitalistic society where the basic needs of all are guaranteed and from there onwards depending on their talent people should be able to grow. No communist country has survived in the world if it hasnt adapted capitalism. Survival is not mere existence, survival is continuous development. The strongest and best of the countries in the world today are capitalistic not communist and thats because capitalism recognizes and rewards talent which creates a continuous cycle of innovative growth.
And again communism is also against democracy. If the voice of the people cant be heard what is the use of such a state no matter how prosperous it is? Democracy allows for competing ideas, even those against democracy to be heard and that gives people the best of the choice to select from, provided the voting population is intelligent. Trusting a billion people’s with different ideological leaning is better than trusting a small group of people with fixed ideology because over a period of time the former allows the best form of governance to evolve. But when you go for a fixed ideology especially in a vast population then you will be imposing it on a vast population who have no inclination towards that ideology at all, and when this dissent grows and gets organized there will be a revolt. This is what happened in societies of fixed ideologies like former USSR or in Iran. This is what will be the fate of China too. Where as in a democracy even communist parties are allowed to exist, where as the reverse is not possible. As I said democracy by allowing even the opposing ideology allows all voices to be heard in its population which leads to a slow but steady and guaranteed growth and I must say India is on the right track.
Taking billion people together without using force especially with such a vast diversity is not an east task. China might look equal in terms of population but most of the population there is Han Chinese and homogeneous in nature. Look what they are doing by flushing Han chinese population into places like Tibet where they are in a minority and there by killing the local culture and people’s life. This kind of destruction wouldnt have been allowed if China were a democracy.
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I visited this site as I was looking for carnatic / film song notations. Your site is a good start. But, do you know that notations are so very skeletal in nature and the true glides and slides (Gamaka) are lost in notations? Sivakumar’s site is one of the best where notations are accompanied by explanations. (http://www.ecse.rpi.edu/Homepages/shivkuma/music/). I was a little curious to know more about you and ended up reading your other ‘stuff’.
* Just because some quotation is posted it does not become gospel truth. Please read this.
http://wwsword.blogspot.com/2009/09/anti-communist-lies.html
* I could not help but laugh, when you mentioned “In India, the citizens are bringing about the change….”. Have you ever wondered why a lot of India’s money is in Swiss Banks? It is likely that you will blame the common man for the sorry state of affairs in our motherland that you and I love a lot. Many (educated?) people find fault with the common man and simply laugh things off, because that is the easiest thing one can do.
* I have not lived in China on a day to day basis to comment so confidently as you do. Communism has different interpretations, similar to many interpretations of Hinduism. Just because some saffron clad GodMen(?!) are bad, Hinduism cannot be described as bad. Practice, Interpreation etc are different from a broad concept.
Nobel Prize, World Beauty Peagent, Femina Awards etc are all private organizations which have their own agenda. They have some ‘extra/broader – intent’ when they give an award. If you find that the Chinese are questioning the nobel prize then there may be some reason to it than whatever meets your eyes/ears.
There are so many things that are not right about our country. Just because some individual can shout against someone powerful (with no or little effect to that person), it doesn’t make it a truly free society. If you look at examples like what we hear from the media about the Ruchika case, you will know how great the state of affairs is.
Bottom Line: We are not in Heaven, China is not hell and it is better to broaden one’s view/vision before writing such a sweeping commentary. Take it easy. This is not a personal attack. I chose to write because you chose to publish.
Sounds like you may be deeply obsessed in your interpretations of the world. Please try to see if you need to broaden your scope and I am sure you will see things in better light.
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Thanks for the link on carnatic music. That looks much better.
Coming back to communism, well nobody said India is heaven and China is hell. But it stops there. Just google and read about the million who were massacred in the communism revolution. West Bengal was the place where intellectual and knowledge thrived before communism entered that state, see where it is today.
Of course in India people are bringing about the change, a slow but a steady process, millions of those like my own family who were in the below poverty line not long ago have progresses to a middle class today. Have you heard about the right to information act and the immense impact it has had on the lives of the people, who brought that into force, was it not the people’s movement?
Cases you talk of that like Ruchika, Arushi etc atleast get mentioned in the news channels and the culprits stand exposed here. In China hundreds of such Arushi, Ruchika cases go without a trace. Read chinaview.wordpress.com, this is not run by some Indian or some western democract, its by the chinese people themselves who find it as a medium to reach out to the outside world.
If Chinese government is so great, then why the communist party is so scared of information? Why it wants the search engines in its country to block and filter words like Tianenmen which talks about the brutal incidence of a country using its military power to kill its own students? Why are twitter, facebook etc blocked in China? No matter how anti establishment our views are, never does this thing happen in India, and I am very proud of that fact.
If being allowed to shout against a powerful person is not open society then what is? not being allowed to talk and being suppressed?
China is no holy cow in corruption either, it is one of the most corrupt countries on this planet and so the strict communism has made no difference there either, except that in China you wont know who ate how much, for there is no RTI in China. In India I can start my own political party and fight in the elections against the establishment, I can have my own ideology here which is why inspite of the all powerful Congress, we still had the JP movement, BJP coming to power in the center, and did you forget – we also allow communist parties to thrive here. In China can you imagine of a life if you are against or not with the communist party?
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