01131pab a2200133 454500008004000000100002100040245003500061260000900096300001300105362001100118520079800129650003600927773003400963180718b2010   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aPatnaik, Prabhat  aA left approach to development  c2010  ap.33-37.  a24 Jul  aAgainst the "means-based approach" to development that the bourgeoisie projects, the left must project a "rights-based approach". Since "rights" are guarantors of welfare gains, every winning of rights likewise strengthens them. The acquisition of rights on the part of the people, including rights to minimum bundles of goods, services and security, amounts therefore to winning crucial battles in the class war for the transcendence of capitalism. If the left were to put on its agenda a struggle for people's rights and adopt a rights-based approach to development as opposed to the means-based approach of the bourgeois formations, it would not constitute a retreat into abstract humanism but would be an integral part of the dialectics of subversion of the logic of capital. - Reproduced.  aEconomic and social development  aEconomic and Political Weekly