THE PEOPLE VERSUS THE SYSTEM

The author presents a historical analysis of people versus the politic al economy. since the dawn of civilisation, through the great industri al revolution and colonisation, upto contemporary globalisation. He id entifies three broad situations at present: the world of victors, the world of the vanquished and the intermediate zone. He identifies two g enres of people's reactions to the malfunctioning of the system: viole nt revolts against the state and resistance of the infolding of the lo gic of the system and the imperial paradigm. According to him, the mov ement of village self-governance in the tribal areas has the potential of graduating into a pan-Indian people's movement which may force the ruling elite for a basic structural transformation.