In his book
Non-Violence or Non-Existence
Satish Kumar
NOTE
Satish Kumar (born 1936) is an Indian British activist and speaker. He has been a Jain monk, nuclear disarmament advocate and pacifist. Kumar was founder and Director of Programmes of the Schumacher College, an international center for ecological studies, and is Editor Emeritus of Resurgence & Ecologist magazine. His most notable accomplishment is the completion, together with companion E. P. Menon, of a peace walk, two and a half years and over 8,000 miles from New Delhi to Moscow, Paris, London, and Washington, the capitals of the world's earliest nuclear-armed countries. He insists that reverence for nature should be at the heart of every political and social debate.
summarises Gandhi's belief that capitalism operates against the interests of society because it is inherently divisive.
If everything is regarded as a competition for resources, markets, rewards, conflict is the all too inevitable outcome.
Non-Violence or Non-Existence
suggests that happiness is only to be found when social and economic organisation is based on shared fortunes and mutuality; on cooperation, not competition.
