Marxism Unmasked from Delusion to Destruction.pdf 7471KB

PROPIT AND LOSS. miVATE PROPERTY. AND CAPITALISM
do noc c\vmgie their mecbodi of production in tunc they air thiown out
ot thrir ponciom as owner&. emirprmcun. capitalists, and shtitcd to
pHitiom in which they no longer have c nucpicneunal and capitaUsoc
flnctiom. Therefore, the meaning of pnvace ownership in the capitalisoc
s) \(em IS ennrdy different from the meaning of pnvaie ownership in the
feudal system.
('ntics of pnvaie ownership air still Innng menially in the Middle Ages
(bkr criucs of intrrrsc and crrdtiors). The>- don't rrali/e ihai the ituriet
drtcrmines every day «i^ should own what uui haw much he should
oivii The market gives ownership to those people who are best fitted to
usr the meam of production for the brsi poMihle utisfjction o( the need*
ol the consumers Therefore it is noc correct to cntKt/r the instiiututm of
private piopert>' by citing conditions as the>' existed in the earl> da>'% under
feudal conditiom. under absolute kings
As Prtsideni Franklin Koosesrh |lfW3-l' arisfcKratic families ortginaied in the tr\mtcmth centurv" Vmuc
niiKlern urahh>- pe«>ple may be devendanis of vsrahln artsifxratK faini-
lir^. but what has thai to do with the sttuation todLis^ the l*ru%suit /Mfiicm
were still privileged in the mneiernth cermirv and earK twmtteth ceniur>';
Tfir>' could retain their property onlv because the wh(4e 4pparatu% tH the
I
iperul gosrrnmeni was glad to prrsersr thetn. to prvxrct thriii. and to
rrsrnt consumers frtnn putting persons in their places who wrrr better
( quipped to servT cofuumers
We must realire that cstts- Kosmtmental titcauire that kmrrk the
amount of profit succesisful enterprises tan make or whuh taun awa\ tlieir
profits IS a measure that urakem the inllueme ot the ctMtsumerk osrr
pnxlucers. For example, the great industrial fttrtuno of the nineteenth
t cniur>' wrrr acquired b\' succensf'ul tmun-atttri in tlietr business Mrnrv'
lord (IMiA-I^M?! started with alnum nothing, hr ttudc rnofituntt pmfits
which were plossrd back in hn enterprise, in tht» was osxt a citttiparaiisrly
vhort time he desrloped one oi the biggeu fonunes o( the Untied States.
The mult ss-as that something quite new happened, nuw pn>duction of
I pA pmKnm wboir ham thrwft n. not tiui dir »>i at Irrr mirrprnc lur pfa6i h»
faUcd in ihn fencnacm. but dui n h» no* >«i bcm cord ~ f I ) KuiMc%rli. » qucMrd tn
( hjpirr I. Fnrdnch A Hjsrk. TV HaW u> SniAmm {i'ht^tfn Unnmm t^ lliuafp
1944).plO.—Ea.|