WHAT IS HINDUISM?
commodities. The ‘mission’ of this religions is the use of
economic and military power to ensure the
transformation of the entire globe and all its natural
resources – from genetic raw materials of life to water
itself – into the most profitable commodities that can be
made of them – irrespective of their affordability by the
vast masses who cannot pay the price for them. It is the
drive of capitalist theocracy for global dominance that
now threatens civilisation as a whole with ecological,
economic and nuclear catastrophes. And it is capitalist
theocracy, centred in the United States, that can spend
trillion of dollars on weapons whilst allowing 15,000
children to die each day of malnutrition and keeping
billions in poverty through the abuse of its global
economic power.
Whilst there is in essence no such thing as a non-
theocratic state, it can equally be said that – aside from
the pretensions of Iran and the ambitions of the Taliban,
- there is no longer any such thing as a true theocracy in
the traditional sense of this term – a society governed
and guided by the genuinely knowledgeable or wise – as
opposed to spiritually, philosophically, historically and
culturally ignorant political ‘leaders’.
The original theocracies of the past on which human
civilisation itself was founded, not least Hindu
civilisation, were not just socialist but ‘gnostic’
theocracies – founded on spiritual knowledge (jnana or