Marxism Unmasked from Delusion to Destruction.pdf 7471KB

mOFIT AND LOtf. PRIVATE PItOPERTY. AND CAPITALISI
intend o( copper in pfoduoxm. chen copper becomes more readily
ivailable. die price of copper dropi. and it nou- becomes profitable to use
opper to produce some things that yesterdn* u-ere unprofitable.
Ultimately it is the consumers, m their buxnng. v^-ho detemune what
^hould be produced and what should not be produced.
When alitminum was first introduced, matn* thinfcs could not be
produced fiom aluminum because its price was very high- Napoleon 111
(1H*J8-1873) iminedtatel>' had the idea to give to his cas'alrv- armor of
^liummum. but it was so expensisr then that it wxMild haxr been cheaper
i< . Kivr fhem zrmof nvu^e of siIstt When I was a child, aluminum was used
(•>r ihildren's toys, but the rralK- scricMis industrial use of aluminum was
ihcn more or less out of the cfuestion SlowK- the pnxluction of aluminum
unproved and the use of alununum for mam- articles became possiNe.
Yean ago. it «vas as unproAcable to use aluminum as it is ioda>- to use some
lii((h-grade metak for certam conrntertial purposes
Ilic slogan "I'rududion tor uvr *t%d not for profit" ts meaningless A
Inisincsuiun pntduces iot prol'ii Hut he can make pn>tiis only because
< (insumers want to use the ihing» he prttduces. because thes- want fo use
litem morr urgenUy than other things
In the abseiKe o( profits and kmcs there WT^uldn'f be am guides for
production If is profits or Icmes that show the buunesunen wlut (he
itmsumers are asking for mosi urgentlv. in what t|uali(ies md m what
i|uantities In a s\-siem m which there wtit no pn>fi(s or Iosmts. the
tHisines%iiun x^ntuld ihM know what the wislio iM the ccHisumers \srrr, and
he wouldn't be able fo urutifie his pntduction prtKe*»o ac cording to the
wishes of the consumen
llesides this fiinction ol profit or km there n the n»le (he\ plas- in
vhtfiing tnsnership of the means of pnsduc turn into the lunds of those who
kness'—in the past, ol' course, i e . until svsierdas- boss hcM lo einplov'
(hem for the needs ol' the ccmsumers Ihts is ihi guarantee (lui (he means
of production \snll be used in the best was ictimMnm Hut il (he\ aren't, (he
imTien will suflirr losses And il the> ck» ihm change (heir me(hcHh of
production. the>- uiU k>se their propern' arsd wiU be thnmn out o( (heir
eminent pcnition as the osstkts of factors ol' pnxluction But (hi* is
Himething gisrn. and i( cannot be changed Esxtv judgineiu abou( people
refers to the past A candidate in an election can only be judged h> wlut
he has done in the past. The same applio also to the choice of a dcxtor. a
shop, and so on. and also to producers. It is alwa>'s gcxid \siU referring to
the past.
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