convenient access to natural resources. It also explains why and how poverty and natural degradation inevitably goes hand in hand with so-called economic growth and prosperity I have dwelt quite a bit on the current state of development just to bring into relief the true nature of what is inadvertently called "economic liberalism" and free market" system we are undergoing. So much talked about with so much pride is "free competition" and competitiveness Only that it is all one-sided And this very brand of economic sectarianism and one- sidedness is all the more accentuated in closed societies like ours, where the "private sector" reigns supreme with the state and political machinery becoming somehow "privatized" in conformity with its needs and demands. In a large sense, then, economic, or rather sectoral, growth needs to be implemented through authoritarian means and even by force and violence if need be. And all this is being a well-established order under the current "market economy" hierachy from the global down to national and local levels. As earlier pointed out, Capitalism is not necessarily related to democracy. In fact, as we have seen, it has its own built-in authoritarianism in dealing with people out- side the industrial complex. Even in open societies of the West, it exhibits structural constraints which clearly stand in the way of democratic development. Again, in