This world is really two worlds :
(1) The world of the developed countries e.g. North American countries, European countries, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and also China ( which broke into their ranks by a revolution in 1949 ).
(2) The world of the underdeveloped countries, e.g. Asian countries, including India ( except China and Japan ), African and Latin American countries.
There is an iron, but secret, rule among rulers of the former ( which they will never talk about ), that underdeveloped countries must not be allowed to become developed. This is because the latter have cheap labour, whereas the former have very expensive labour. Countries with cheap labour have a distinct advantage over countries with expensive labour ( provided they set up a massive modern industry ) since they will then their goods at much cheaper prices, and thus undersell the expensive goods of the developed countries. Who will then buy the expensive goods of the developed countries, when underderdeveloped countries, having cheap labour, like India, can sell the same high quality goods at half or one third the price ? Will their industries not collapse being unable to face the competion of cheap goods of the underdeveloped countriies, throwing tens of millions out of empoyment ? Will they not oppose the industrialisation of underdeveloped countries tooth and nail ?
This has been explained below in detail :
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/understanding-world-developments-markandey-katju
https://www.theweek.in/news/india/2024/05/15/opinion-how-to-outwit-developed-countries.html
Therefore the interest of the developed countries directly conflicts with the interest of underdeveloped countries.
The former want the latter to remain underdeveloped, unindustrialised ( or at most only semi-industrialised ) and therefore poor, backward, and semi-feudal.
On the other hand, the latter must become highly developed and highly industrialised if they can ever hope to escape from the great socio-economic evils which have plagued them for centuries–massive poverty, massive unemployment, hunger, malnutrition, lack of proper healthcare and good education, etc
https://indicanews.com/indias-national-aim/
How can this impasse be resolved ?
I submit it can be resolved only by mighty, historical, protracted and arduous peoples’ struggles and revolutions, in which tremendous sacrifices will have to be made, by the peoples of the underdeveloped countries, led by patriotic modern minded, selfless leaders who are determined to set up a political order under which the country rapidly industrialises and the people start enjoying a high standard of liviing and leading decent lives.
I submit that India will provide leadership to the entire underdeveloped world in this historical, earth shaking process.
This is because of the simple fact that India is the most developed of the underdeveloped countries in the world.
This is firstly because, though our British rulers wanted to keep India feudal and unindustrialised ( as they did not want a rival to British industy ), yet they had to set up a vast railway network in India ( in their own interest ) and develop some light industries in India like textiles.m So there was some industrialisation of India even under British rule.
Secondly, after India became independent in 1947, modern minded leaders like Pt Nehru set up a heavy industrial base with steel mills etc and top class engineering colleges like the Indian Institutes of Technology ( IIT ).
Because of all this, India has been transformed into the most developed of the underdeveloped countries in the world. It has a huge pool of technical talent. American Universities have numerous professors of science, technology, mathematics, medicine, etc.Silicon Valley in California is largely manned by Indian IT engineers. No other underdeveloped country is anywhere near the development of India, which would have now broken into the ranks of the developed countries but for agents of the developed countres like Prime Minister Modi who polarised Indian society on religous lines and spread religious hatred|
https://indicanews.com/justice-markandey-katju-modis-hate-speech-has-crossed-all-limits-of-decency
https://indicanews.com/justice-markandey-katju-india-is-going-backwards-not-forward
The rulers of the developed countries know that once India gets developed all other underdeveloped countries will follow suit Hence they will focus all their attention on India and use every technique and trick to prevent India becoming highly developed
https://indicanews.com/the-puppeteer-and-the-puppets
However, genuine patriots are bound to emerge who are determined to transform India into a modern industrial giant, like USA or China, and then all other underdeveloped countries will do the same.
https://indicanews.com/justice-markandey-katju-a-call-to-indian-patriots
https://indicanews.com/justice-markandey-katju-the-main-features-of-the-21st-century
India will thus give leadership to not only the underdeveloped countries but also to the entire world in this connection
https://indicanews.com/justice-markandey-katju-the-coming-great-revolution-in-india
https://indicanews.com/india-needs-a-great-leap-forward
Justice Markandey Katju is a retired Judge of the Supreme Court of India
