PROFIT, THOU PROGENY OF CAPITAL, HOW LONG WILT THOU LOCK HORNS WITH PEACE?

PROFIT, THOU PROGENY OF CAPITAL, HOW LONG WILT THOU LOCK HORNS WITH PEACE?

Immoderate profit-making is legitimate theft. It reduces the masses to penury. It creates social tension, corrodes culture, erodes morality and inflicts war. Peace can never be till this third vice that afflicts humanity is taken care of. And what is this third vice? Greed. It was the seat of colonialism and the fuel for conquest. Even today greed forms the basis of the strong nation's depredation of the weaker ones. Profit, thou progeny of capital, how long wilt thou lock horns with peace?

Written by Sugata Bose

Photo : The veteran freedom fighter, luminary of Parliament, historian, barrister, brilliant bilingual author, orator par excellence, ardent communist with a difference, humanist of rare virtues, the unforgettable CPI leader Prof. Hiren Mukerjee whose crusade for socioeconomic justice he waged lifelong and passed the baton to posterity for fulfilment.