सृजनाशीलता हमेशा सामाजिक होती है -एजाज अहमद

   मनुष्य बचपन से ही सृजनाशील प्राणी है, खेलने, खाना बनाने, खाने, गाने, घूमने जैसे कामों को सृजनाशील होकर करता है। गीत संगीत और कला इसी सृजनाशीलता की देन है। इस लेख में यही दर्शाया गया है.  एजाज अहमद का यह विचारोत्तेजक लेख ‘सृजनाशीलता हमेशा सामाजिक होती है’ ‘कथन’ के अक्तूबर-दिसम्बर, २००२ के अंक में प्रकाशित   हुआ था। इस लेख के लिए हम समस्त ‘कथन’ परिवार के आभारी हैं।

२००२, पु.मु. २००४,

आकारः डिमाई/८ मूल्यः रु ५ 

IS CAPITALISM A DISEASE? (क्या पूँजीवाद एक बीमारी है ? – हिंदी में भी उपलब्ध)

- Rechard Levins

 We have created a sick society, even as we invest more and more to repair the damage.We are exposed to more pollution and increasing levels of stress and therefore exposed, ironically, to more opportunities to display our cardiac surgery skills. We make more people miserable, so we spend more on psychiatry and on psycho tropic drugs…

The basic reason that programs fail is not incompetence, ignorance, or stupidity, but because they are constrained by the interests of the powerful elite group.

But health is also a consumer good, particularly for the affluent, who can buy improvements in health for themselves. Rather than improve water quality, they buy bottled water; rather than improve air quality, they employ oxygen tanks in their living rooms. Health is also a commodity invested in by the health industrious, including, hospitals , HMOs, and pharmaceutical companies. They sell healthcare to as large a market as can afford to pay for it; they even push it on people who do not need it…

But they are all part of one integral system that has to be our battleground in the future.We have to take up health as a pervasive issue as we do with problems of the environment; they are aspects of class struggle, not an alternative to it.

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