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CHAPTER 27. BAPTISM: WADING FOR GODOT
I will also have a classless society, but it will be of rich people. If Marx succeeds, he will also have
a classless society – but phony. First, it will be of poor people. Secondly, because of those poor
people, you will need a very strong and powerful bureaucracy to keep them down; otherwise they
will revolt.
In America there is a possibility of a revolution, but in Russia you cannot conceive even the idea of
revolution. You cannot talk with anybody about revolution. The very word will be enough for you to
evaporate in some gas chamber
Russia is not classless. America is not classless.
Yes, different classes, but nobody is classless. And when the pope says that the idea of a class
struggle is a sin, he certainly implies that the idea of creating a classless society is also a sin. No,
the poor should remain poor, the rich should remain rich.
The very idea of class helps the so-called religions, because if everybody is rich and everybody has
everything that is needed and everybody lives comfortably and luxuriously, who is going to bother
about your heaven? Instead people will pray, ”Please, send me back to the earth. I don’t want to
come to your heaven.”
In the first place heaven will be a very ancient place – perhaps even bullock carts may not be
available there, because I have never heard that God created bullock carts. And the spinning
wheel... I sometimes feel sad for Mahatma Gandhi: if he has reached heaven, what will he be
doing? – because the spinning wheel is not available there. There is no mention in any religious
scripture that the spinning wheel is available to the angels.
Mahatma Gandhi will be simply dying to get back to the earth to find his spinning wheel again,
because the whole day he was spinning. In the train, traveling, he was spinning; talking to people,
he was spinning; dictating letters, he was spinning; dictating articles, he was spinning. He carried
the spinning wheel everywhere.
There is no need for poverty, but the spinning wheel will keep people poor. Even if you spin for
twelve hours a day you will not be able to create enough clothes for yourself And there are other
things to do, not just make clothes. You will need to eat something, drink something. And there are
many other things you will need, not just clothes. Even if after twelve hours spinning you can make
enough clothes to cover your body somehow, by that time the body will have disappeared because
there will not be any food.
Gandhi wanted cultivation also to be done by ancient methods. That would mean that India had to
fall back to Buddha’s time, twenty-five centuries back. Then there were only twenty million people in
India. Now there are seven hundred million people in India. You would have to cut out six hundred
and eighty million people completely. And this will be non-violent?
Yes, two million people, twenty million people are capable of living by ancient methods – a little food
they can manage – but what to do with seven hundred million people? By the end of this century
India will be the most populous country in the world, it will have gone farther ahead than China.
Right now China has the biggest population: it has one hundred... one thousand hundred – those
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