The Important Changes in economy in the last century

In the last century various forms of economy around the globe pay their way to embraced by the people. Soon, at least in the second half of the last century economy forces divided the world into communism and capitalist. But the end of the last century start the most economic change - the communism revolution leading to dictatorial communism, and stop at the most important shift in our society today the shift from democratic capitalism to what we see currently happening in the George Bush-Tony Blair era, dictatorial capitalism.

When Karl Marx champion for a poletarian revolution to end all exploitation and demanded the dictatorship of the common people and the workers, he surely wanted to lay foundation for the greatest human democratic society. The ultimate goal of democracy is to remove exploitation of man by man in a given society. Unfortunately all the balanced sheet of this history movement end up in the negative because the way these economies sock the basic democratic right of human existance. Oppressed people could not take it any more and rebelled in millions to overthrow the dictatorial communist regime. Any society which curbs the freedom of expression of its members is bound to face an uprisal.

That the dictatorial communist regimes would finally be overthrown was but a question of time, China is changing rapidly and again it will be a matter of time before it gradually becomes a democracy. However since 1991 (the year when the mighty USSR collapsed) something more shocking has been taking place. Dictatorship, instead of being on its way out, is showing a worse and ugly revival in capitalist economies, which pride themselves on being great democracies. From 1945 to 1991 peace prevailed across the world, not because capitalist countries have been peace-loving historically but because of the cold war. Ideologically the socialist countries were peace-loving but they believed in investing heavily in military and defence-technology development in order to keep peace. But after 1991 the contemporary world started seeing a new face of capitalism. In the last 12 years we have see more than 20 times the number of wars the world saw in the 45 years that preceded the fall of USSR. Violence breeds violence. So on the 11 th of the September 2001, the land of plenty got hit below the belt.

The collapse of the twin towers in America almost succeededin creating a world warlike situation. On the pretext of wiping out terrorism Afghanistan America bombed it to stone age. Of course Osama could not be caught. The empty warhead has now turned his sights on Iraq. The World War like situation is back.

Under the grab of democracy, the dictatorship of the new age cowboy leader and his gang of capitalist allies are continuously threatening world peace. It is indeed unfortunate that the act of September 11, terrorism took many lives, created warlike destruction and ended up becoming a dream attacks of spectacular proportions from the terrorist's point of view.

A new world order seems to be on its way up - where some innocent lives are more innooent than others (belonging to poorer countries). Some countries have a greater right to violate UN orders than others and some countries have a greater right to make nuclear weapons for their protection than others (in the name of world peace they also have a greater right to bomb others), specially if they are not a part of the deveped capitalist world. This new world order is that of Dictatorial Capitalism. Just when we started celebrating the near end of the dictatorial communism, we have a new and by all perceptions a worse problem facing humanity.

(Taken from : "The Great Indian Dream" by Malay Chaudhuri and Arindam Chaudhuri)

Apa Nilai Proton Kepada Orang Melayu

Apa nilai Proton kepada orang Melayu?

TUN DR. MAHATHIR: Saya pun orang Melayu juga. Jadi saya bangga kerana Proton berjaya. Sebabnya, masa saya kecil dahulu, sebagai orang Melayu pada masa itu, kita rasa hendak buat gores api pun rasa susah. Kalau kita buat pun, kita rasa satu batang pun sekurang-kurangnya sepuluh sen, begitu payah sekali pada pandangan kita hendak mengeluarkan sesuatu. Itu cuma gores api, tapi sekarang ini kita dapat buat kereta malah kapal terbang pun kita boleh buat. Kalau dulu kita rasa hendak buat gores api, kita kata buat apa? Beli sahajalah, tak payah susah-susah buat, kita akan jadi pengguna keluaran orang sampai bila-bila. Malah kita tidak mungkin ada duit hendak beli kerana itulah punca pendapatan kita. Kalau kita tutup Proton, berapa ramai yang awak rasa akan kehilangan kerja, termasuklah tanggungan mereka, tanggungan pembekal-pembekal dan tanggungan semua penjual? Kalau dikira betul-betul, ada lebih 300,000 orang yang terlibat mencari makan dengan Proton. Kalau kita tutup Proton, kita beli sahaja kereta asing, semua orang ini tidak ada kerja. Ramai jurutera yang Proton lahirkan bekerja di Perodua dan juga syarikat lain seperti Kumpulan Naza. Kita keluarkan banyak jurutera dan pereka bentuk yang dahulunya tidak pernah ada di negara ini. Jadi, sekarang majoriti adalah Melayu dan sangat berkebolehan.