Hitler’s socialist views were exactly like Nehru’s or AAP’s Prashant Bhushan’s

I read the jonyayray article- it is erudite but disingenuous. Every one knows that the Marx and Engels of ‘The German Ideology’ were still romantics- Engels never lost his infatuation with Schelling style Naturphilosophie- Wagner’s essays of that period give a flavour of that Zeitgeist. The importance of Marx to Socialism is the radical break he makes, under the influence of Classical Ricardian economics, with the Continental Romantic tradition.
Your Dr. Ray makes great play with the Soviet use of the Swastika. He does not mention that the last Tzarina signed her letters with the same emblem. Was she a Socialist? So did Rudyard Kipling- the man who wrote a poem attacking ‘the 50 hour week’- no doubt, he was actually a Socialist.
Was Marx guilty of anti-semitism? But if so only to the same extent as Heinrich Heine but less than Solomon Maimon- the contemporary of Kant and Moses Mendelsohn- and a full fledged Rabbi, no less.
My son is like you. A Mathematician turned Economist who believes that there is no need to read History, read canonical Literary texts, because some short-cut on the internet is available to support any hare-brained idea that pops into one’s head.
Nowadays, if a woman is better than a man- she will get the job. This is thanks to Capitalism- not Socialism. Hitler’s mother was worth three times his worthless bureaucrat of a father. The problem with the ‘agitators’- and you are also becoming one, Sanjeev- is that you don’t value your Mothers. You think- because when you were growing up- women were denied education and employment opportunities (well, at least, amongst the ‘khandani’ Upper Castes)- that Mother is an idiot because she only has ‘common sense’ whereas Father is a Deity, because he has surpassed the realm of making ends meet.
But making ends meet, telling the truth, this is real Economics. The word, as Wicksteed and Coase emphasize, means ‘household management’ which is done by the ‘housewife.’
What is this nonsense you are spouting about Microwave signals? After retirement I was a voluntary Prison Visitor. The most ignorant sort of women were saying this to me. By God’s grace, I was able to use my influence to get them transferred to good Psychiatric ‘secure wards’ where their family members could visit them every day.
You have good I.Q and generally good mental health- but you overwork, over-worry and make yourself vulnerable in more ways than one. Some bogus Guru won’t help you. Your wife will. She is the mother of your children. ‘May you have ten sons and your husband the eleventh’- let your wife or your daughters or whoever it may be, let the ‘Matra jati’ – the people of the Race of Mothers, let them look after you- learn from them and though you will be slower in formulating your thoughts, your thoughts will be well-formulated- you will sustain no ‘repetitive stress injury’ such as, not Microwave radiation, but thinking stupid things, saying stupid things- even though you’ve previously thought something virtually identical, but less stupid, even though you’ve previously written something, but less risible- must inevitably inflict on so weak, parasitic and inutile an organism as your ‘Political Beliefs’.
There is good in you. It is easy to dismiss what you are trying to do. I simply don’t like unfairness. I don’t like bullying and name-calling. I spent my working life as a teacher in London. If I had run a business- I’d have been wealthy. Yes, I retired as Head teacher and have a good pension- but I’m not wealthy. The blog where I came across your name vilified was one where I am also castigated as a posh lady.
I feel the younger generation has lost respect for everything- not just on the internet. Foul language and vitriolic comments are considered ‘cool’.
After my husband passed away, my world was shattered. You people are shattering your own world though your near and dear ones are alive. I worked, my children got an education and now they are far away. Good! They don’t need me but are happy in the Society to which their education and inclination has brought them to.
A Mother should be a ‘Socialist’ in this sense. Every woman knows this in her heart of hearts.
But, look, Sanjeev- I hope you don’t mind my saying this- you men also have jealousies against each other just like the most stupid elderly women. What they are saying against me- that I live in a big house and I should sell it to give the proceeds to my children- what can I say? My children are successful. They come home for Christmas- they call me at all times of day or night- I don’t keep the Skype video link, otherwise they will get an unpleasant surprise! Mother has grown old.
Well, this is not for publication, so whether you read it or not, still- perhaps- some higher purpose is served.
May God bless you and your family.

Carlyle, like George Eliot, made his name by his familiarity with German philosophy.The reason that Eschatological and Great Man theories of History aren’t Collectivist is because the mass of human beings have no importance or significance. They may or may not stand witness- i.e. be martyred- but the Truth to which the stand witness is indifferent to their testimony.
The reason I can rule out your ideas about microwave radiation from rational consideration is because you have no expertise in this field. I do not know what fields you have expertise in. But, it is likely, that when you write about something of which you have expert knowledge then your arguments will be cast into a recognizable logical form.
I suppose people of my generation read a great deal more. Universities were stricter then. Not to have read Carlyle- whom Gandhi called one of his Gurus- suggests a level of cultural and political illiteracy which belies the rather expansive claims you make on your blog.
A pity because you are right to criticize the likes of Rajiv Dixit.

a) there aren’t two types of Social theories, there are many. Perhaps, what you mean to say is that all existing Social theories can be divided into two camps- ones amenable to ‘methodological individualism’ and one’s that stress emergent properties of Social systems. If this is what you are saying, then you need to specify a criteria of demarcation and address the underlying sorites problematic- i.e. what, at the margin, is the ‘tipping point’ rendering a theory either this or that. If you have indeed originated or espoused any such demarcation criteria, do let us know what it is.
As a rider to this, I may mention that your insistence that Hinduism is individualistic can’t be supported by any argument you present. Indeed, I am not aware of any responsible scholar who has argued otherwise- people like Swami Agnivesh ( a Socialist) are not Scholars. They are tendentious propagandists for a cause whose mischief they neither envisage nor care greatly to curtail.
You write ‘the vast majority (99%) of Western theories to date have been socialistic’- this is nonsense. The vast majority of Western theories have been eschatological or teleological. Even deontological approaches- like that of Nozick- appeal to consequentialist considerations. But this consequentialism is eschatological- pointing to an Omega point of Information- such as that involved in that ‘Judge Hercules’ without whom Nozick’s argument falls to pieces- or it is teleological (as I believe your own argument is) pointing to a perfect end state and working backwards from that.
To speak of ‘tribalism’ without showing awareness of the the paradigm shifting work of Morton H Fried is simply ignorant. As in Europe, so in India, tribes (e.g. the AJGAR) came into existence in response to an Imperium.
You write ‘Despite your resistance to place Hitler squarely in the leftist tradition (“society first; I’m the great man whose ideas the entire society must follow”), and your great knowledge of Carlyle, I’m not persuaded that Hitler was a votary of individual liberty. When you find more persuasive evidence than Carlyle, please suggest. I’d suggest pointing out extracts from his writings which prove his love of liberty and any humility he might have had about his own ignorance.’
This is not just ad hominem (I must be a very bad person to resist placing Hitler in the leftist tradition) but ignoratio elenchi of a particularly flagrant sort.
b) Microwave- your obsession with this is evidence of an incipient mental illness as your style of argument further demonstrates. I easily disprove your argument by stating the following fact- Microwave radiation has not led to any drop in scholastic achievement anywhere affected. Your expertise is not merely deceptive, as you proudly claim (perhaps inadvertently. I take it your School education was in a vernacular language, in which case allowances can be made) but entirely delusionary.
You may only have a few academic degrees but you disgrace every institution which you rewarded your sedulous cramming with a Credential whose worthlessness your prose amply demonstrates.
c) You talk about Gandhi but haven’t read Carlyle. I can guarantee that you don’t understand 95 percent of any serious book you have ever read. You don’t understand Hayek. Lord Meghnad Desai does. He’s a self confessed ‘Hayekian Marxist’. You know very little about the history of Economic Theory. Did you know Coase and Abba Lerner were great friends? But, you are entirely ignorant of Coase’s ‘Law & Econ’ approach aren’t you? You have read nothing- or rather profited not at all from what little you have read. This would not matter if you had a feeling heart- the power to empathize with others.
You write worthless books as do hundreds of millions of others- but some books are worthwhile. But even those remain a closed book to you because you have a bigot’s brain and a harridan heart.