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this concept of monopoly has become obsolete and another concept has taken its place—that is, ‘everything for everyone’. In today’s age the most important thing is planning, and not political power. If a person knows how to do wise planning, he can, through peaceful planning, attain everything which in the earlier age was regarded as possible only through military power and force. For example, in previous ages, colonialism had held sway. The aim of colonialism was commercial exploitation, for which the colonial powers considered controlling other territories as necessary. The colonial nations were basically commercial exploiters. But today this commercial gain can be achieved through other means, for example, outsourcing, investment, and so on. Today there are many big companies which gain their commercial interests at a global level, but do not own an army. The means that they have employed for carrying out their activities are outsourcing and investment. This is an example of the phenomenon of de-monopolization that has come to characterize the present age. In earlier times, powerful people could enjoy monopolies, but today the same advantage can be achieved by all through planning and organization. Can you please summarize the basic arguments of this book? People generally live in anachronism. Although the age of war is over, people still continue to advocate for and engage in war. In this book, I have proved that such changes have been brought about in the present age that war has become totally futile. Today, we can achieve more successfully through peace what we could not have attained by taking to war in the previous age. In this book I have, directly or indirectly, tried to show that a process has been going on since past thousands of years in human history. This process, according to me, was to replace violence with peace or to make peaceful struggle the alternative for violent struggle. This process reached its culmination in the second half of the twentieth century. Those who now opt for the violent struggle to attain their goals are victims of the anachronistic way of thinking. The gist of the book is to make people aware of the spirit of the age and to re-engineer people’s minds along the lines of peace. The benefit of this replacement of violence by peace is not only that violence would come to an end in society and peace would prevail, rather the greater benefit would be that after this re-engineering, people would no more have negative thinking and would develop