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If adequate motivations could be assured, a far higher degree of efficiency could be maintained in socialized industries than in industries operated for private gain.
Property (1935)
And all these motivations may be conserved and strengthened under socialism.
Property (1935)
In three ways unemployment would be reduced.
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There is a far higher degree of probability of success through non-warlike means than through the Communist strategy of civil war.
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The consolidation of financial and industrial power in the hands of a small section of the people leads inevitably to more and more intense congestion of money.
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If a considerable proportion of the present generation is to achieve individuality it must travel the road of collectivism.
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Non-warlike revolutionists fall into a tragic blunder when they enter into a united front with communists or near-communists.
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That graft and corruption are found in governmental enterprises is a fact, but that they are more prevalent there than in business cannot be demonstrated.
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Cooperation and mutuality produce goodwill and harmony, whereas competition for special privilege divides men into warring camps.
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A powerful consumers cooperative movement helps to maintain an equitable balance between prices and profits, and thereby decreases the power of owners and investors.
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Communists have nothing but contempt for religion and for pacifism. They use the united front as a means of boring from within.
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The collectivism of fascism subordinates the individual to the totalitarian state and subjects him to ruthless dictatorship.
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Socialized industries should be governed by boards of directors composed of representatives of engineers, workers, and consumers.
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Taxation must be used as an instrument of social policy, but if carried too far under the profit system, it may be an instrument of destruction rather than construction.
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If individuals exercise the freedom to seek their own gain through competitive struggle and to acquire unlimited wealth and property, the result for most of the population will be bondage to destitution and insecurity.
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Religious groups should exert themselves in behalf of the unemployed and should be zealous in defense of civil liberties, but they merely weaken their efforts when they enter into combinations with communists.
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The competitive struggle forces men and women to spend an excessive amount of time in the kitchen of life and thereby denies them maximum opportunity of appropriating the values of library, conservatory, chapel and living room.
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The profit motive and the competitive struggle are more productive and less destructive on the frontier than in the city. Maldistribution of income becomes more devastating with increasing complexity and interdependence.
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God is Father of all mankind and is seeking to create a community in which His children will dwell together harmoniously and cooperatively as beloved kinsmen. Therefore attitudes and practices which debase personality or embitter human relations must be avoided.
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Plenty for everyone can be provided in the United States if the anarchistic economic freedom of the frontier is renounced and replaced by the higher freedom of collectivism, through the socialization of the basic industries and the approximate equalization of economic privilege.
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