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the Congress managed to monopolize political power as well as economic power through instruments of patronage and institutions of development.
If you expect tomorrow to be better than today, you take economic decisions that ensure that tomorrow is indeed better. If, on the other hand, one believes the future to be bleaker than the present, one ends up taking decisions and making choices that contribute to a less than satisfactory outcome.
The great battles of the first half of the twentieth century were between colonialism and national liberation movements; and, between socialism and democracy, on the one side, and fascism on the other. Colonialism and fascism were defeated. In the second half of the twentieth century the battle of ideas was between bourgeois democracy and state socialism under communist party rule.
