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Social Change – G.V.S. De Silva

This essay by G.V.S. De Silva published for the first time in The Alternatives: socialism or Barbarism by Social Scientist Association in 1988 is republished in this space considering its relevance for the contemporary society in crisis. In this essay “…he looked at and re-examined the experiences of the Soviet Union, East Europe and China…

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Some Heretical Thoughts on Economic Development – G.V. S de Silva

G. V. S De Silva had been the private secretary to Philip Gunawardena, Minister of Agriculture in the MEP government in 1956, and had been largely responsibile for the agricultural plan published by that ministry in 1957. He drafted the Paddy Bill which was brought to protect the rights of sharecropping and tenant farmers. Since…

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