expansion of capital through greater investment. Capitalist development is manifested at first as destruction of the pre-capitalist form of production with the capitalist system of production emerging as the only universal form of social production and increasing the productivity of social labour. This is surely a development over the feudal society in respect of the productivity of social labour, employment generation, consumption and the relative freedom of labour power. But as capitalist development basically means a greater scope and magnitude of the accumulation of capital, an expansion of capital, it also means greater control over labour and greater exploitation and subordination of labour. The development of the society in general under the authority of capital is only a by-product result of the process of the increasing capital accumulation. It is also a result of the struggle and movement of labour, which forced the capitalist state to go on the defensive and take regulatory measures in the interest of capital accumulation through redistribution of wealth and resources. The prosperity and progress that you have clearly seen in Britain and pretty much the whole developed world over the last 100 years is the result of such social processes. It cannot be denied that such prosperity and progress of the west is also an outcome of the colonial plundering of the east, of the exploitation and misery of the people of the east. You are hopeful that capitalism can still produce positive results. How can it be done by the capital in this